/RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’adam [laws concerning the sick, the dying and the after-life]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 185

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

/RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’adam [laws concerning the sick, the dying and the after-life]

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. Signature of censor “Camillo Jaghel 1619” on final page ff.108. Title with some loss of text. Few light dampstains in places. Blind-tooled sheep. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1595

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $400

With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. The verso of the final leaf, contains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs by stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee.”