Sepher Ikarim [philosophy]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Lot 5

ALBO, JOSEPH

Sepher Ikarim [philosophy]

Initial letters of opening word within white-on-black decorative vignettes surrounded by historiated engraved border-piece ff. (132 of 154). Lacking title and printer's introduction, signatures 21, 23, 36 and 37. Signature 23 and final signatures supplied in manuscript in different hands. Slight censorship. Lightly browned, marginal notes in an Italian hand. Old vellum boards, rubbed and distressed. 4to. Sold not subject to return Vinograd, Rimini 4; Mehlman 1191; not in Adams

Rimini: Gershom Soncino 1522

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

Albo’s Sepher Ikarim presented religious-philosophical problems in a clear form that made them accessible and comprehensible to all. For a brief examination of Albo’s philosophies and the thinkers upon whose ideas he built, see I. Zinberg, A History of Jewish Literature, Vol. III (1974), pp. 233-239