Mirkeveth Ha-Mishnah [commentary to Sepher Devarim]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 4
ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

Mirkeveth Ha-Mishnah [commentary to Sepher Devarim]

FIRST EDITION. With many inscriptions, signatures and stamps of previous owners on the recto and verso of the title, including stamps of the Library of Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin; R. Meir Shapiro (when Rabbi of Piotrkow); earlier 18th- and 19th-century inscriptions indicating the volume was purchased from the estate of R. Berman Segal of Hanau; an early Italian signature; plus a wedding inscription to Reuven “the son of the Tzaddik...Shmuel Bressl[au]er ff. 132 (of 145), text complete but lacking index - as stated in the German inscription on the final blank Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1551

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $900
THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA. Contains an important introduction concerning the establishment of the Hebrew press at Sabbioneta by the editor-publisher Yoseph b. Yaakov of Padua