Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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ALMOSNINO, MOSES

Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

Second edition. Printer’s devices on title, f. 225b (see Ya'ari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18) and final leaf (Ya'ari 19; Yudlov, Hebrew Printers' Marks 3) ff. 236 (mispaginated but complete). Light waterstains and marginal worming, otherwise an attractive copy. Recent blind-tooled morocco. 4to Vinograd, Venice 726; Habermann, di Gara 102; not in Adams

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1588

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $750

Me’ametz Ko’ach contains twenty-eight sermons (thus ko'ach, the Hebrew equivalent numerical of 28) by this celebrated preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation of Salonika (today Thessaloniki), Greece. Almosnino draws upon a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, Ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-71