Olath Shabbath [sermons for the Sabbath]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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IBN SHUAIB, JOEL.

Olath Shabbath [sermons for the Sabbath]

First Edition. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Previous owner’s signature with inscription containing bibliographic. information pertaining to the authors other works in an Italian hand, another signature in an Ashkenazic hand (Shlomo b. Aaron Fisher, born in Eisenstadt) ff. (8), 160. Dampstained heavily so along margins toward the end. Title affected by heavy ink inscription on verso. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Venice 625; Haberman, di Gara 44; Adams I-18

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1577

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $800

A native of Spain, ibn Shuaib lived in Saragossa shortly before the expulsion in 1492 wheupon he moved to Salonica. The collected sermons here, reveal both an extensive rabbinic as well as broad general cultural knowledge. His work provides insights to the social structures prevelant in Spanish Jewish society. See EJ, IIX col.1201