Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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ARAMA, ISAAC

Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated border, printer’s device at end. The ABRAHAM JOSEPH SOLOMON GRAZIANO (“Ish Ger”) COPY, with his signatures on the title and final leaf, marginalia and notes on final endpaper. Also stamp of Moses Gaster ff.38. Signatures of six censors on verso of final leaf, some staining, some passages censored but eminently readable. Modern calf-backed boards. 4to Vinograd, Sabbionetta 3

Sabbionetta: Tobias Foa 1552

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

“In Spain, the plague of studying Gentile knowledge in the Christian tongue, which is antithetic to our faith, has spread...” (f. 29a). Regarding this acerbic tract, see Zinberg, Vol. III, pp. 257-60 and EJ Vol. III, col. 256-59. See also I. Sonne, Some Remarks on Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta, in: Kiryat Sepher IV, pp. 269-73; and A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 345-47 (a critique of Sonne). Graziano (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. See: Salo Baron, Teshuvah...Meieth R. Abraham Graziano in: Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929), pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-56 (includes facsimile of “Ish Ger” signature and marginalia)