Nell’ Occasione di essere stata attaccata dal vaiuolo...Maria Teresa d’Austria Imperatrice...Orazioni...Universita’ degli Ebrei di Mantova

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

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

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Lot 83

(ITALIAN JUDAICA)

Nell’ Occasione di essere stata attaccata dal vaiuolo...Maria Teresa d’Austria Imperatrice...Orazioni...Universita’ degli Ebrei di Mantova

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Italian face-`a-face. Title in red and black. Many striking engraved vignettes. Numerous engravings. Broad margins pp. (3), 4-39, (1 blank). Light stains, otherwise a crisp, clean copy. Modern marbled wrappers. Folio Not in Vinograd;

Venice: Guglielmo Zerletti 1767

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

“Orations Recited by the Jewish Community of Mantua on the Occasion of Empress Maria Theresa’s Recovery from Smallpox.” Contains sonnets composed specially for the occasion by the Rabbis of Mantua, R. Jacob Saraval and R. Israel Laudadio [Gedaliah] Cases. See S. Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), p.615, n.44; p.179 (facsimile of p. xxxiv)