ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 1

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.

Rosh Amanah [on the principles of faith]. ff. 34. Previous owner's stamp removed, slight staining. [Vinograd Cremona 13]. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1557 * Bound with: (Hagadah) Zevach Pesach, ff. 4, 30 (of 60, lacking title and final 30 leaves).Yudlov 33; Yaari 25; Mehlman 369] (Bistrowitz, Kalonymus b. Mordecai Jaffe, 1592) )

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

This Cremona edition of the Rosh Amanah is scarce. Bound into this volume is an incomplete copy of the Bistrowitz Hagadah, the first Hagadah printed in Eastern Europe (see Yerushalmi 33). Although a previous owner of this book wrote on the first leaf that this Hagadah is the Venetian edition of 1545, we believe it is in fact Bistrowitz, based on the typeface and particular pagination