Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 77

FIGO, AZARIAH

Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]

First Edition. Title within decorative woodcut architectural arch ff. 4, 200, (12). Dampstained, scattered marginal worming in places. Modern cloth-backed boards. Lg.4to Vinograd, Venice 1276

Venice: Francesco Vicheri 1648

Est: $250 - $300

Sermon no. 26 for Passover was censored in the 1799 Brünn edition of Binah Le’itim. See R. Magolioth, Aresheth Vol. I, p.422. For an in depth analysis of Figo’s scholarly place in history, see I. Bettan, The Sermons of Azariah Figo, in HUCA, Vol. VII, pp. 457-95