Nachlath Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers, with text]. With introduction by Maimonides

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

Nachlath Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers, with text]. With introduction by Maimonides

Second Edition. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 16). Laudatory poem by the Author’s eldest son, Judah (Leone Ebreo) Abrabanel on verso of title ff. 216 (i.e. 215). Few light stains, clean tear on last few leaves expertly repaired, extensive marginal glosses in a 16th-century Italian hand on first few leaves, signed by censor. Later bind-tooled black morocco, gently rubbed at extremities. 4to Vinograd, Venice 248; Habermann, Adelkind 18; not in Adams

Venice: Justininan-Adelkind 1545

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

The commentary Nachlath Avoth is replete with Abrabanel’s quest in determining the tragedies of his time This copy with extensive marginal notes of a philosophical nature in an early Italian Hebrew hand commenting upon the introduction by Maimonides