Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Lot 250
LANIADO, SAMUEL BEN ABRAHAM

Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

FIRST EDITION. Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s device on title ff. 270,(7). Light dampstains in places, gently damp-wrinkled, guttered with few leaves loose, paper repair to lower margin of title, previous owner’s inscriptions on title, extensive old-hand marginalia on f.251v. Later blind-ruled chestnut morocco boards, rubbed, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Vence 821; Habermann, di Gara 161; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni de Gara 1596

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $650
Known as the "Baal Hakelim" (all of his works begin with the word "kli"), the author was one of the most prolific scholars of Aleppo