Kehunath Avraham [poetical paraphrase of the Book of Psalms]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 75

COHEN, ABRAHAM BEN SHABTHAI

Kehunath Avraham [poetical paraphrase of the Book of Psalms]

FIRST EDITION. Six parts in one, each part proceeded by individual title page (featuring cherubs sounding trumpets). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Author. Full-page circular engraving in praise of Creation ff. (1), 8, 49, 40, 30, 26, 64, (1). Lacking additional engraved title. Light stains in places, engraved portrait laid down, first two leaves loose. Recent black half-calf boards, gently rubbed at extremities. 4to Vinograd, Venice 1660

Venice: Bragadin 1719-26

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $950

A poetical paraphrase, with commentary, to the Psalms, to which is appended “Benei Keturah” rhymed verses to Perek Shirah (The Song of Moses). The author, a physician in Zante, one of the Ionian Islands of Greece, issued this work with a most uncommon engraved self-portrait (see A. Rubens, A Jewish Iconography (1981) no. 8). According to Cecil Roth, Cohen was probably responsible for the other engravings in the book as well