Pirush al Nevi’im Acharonim [commentary to the Later Prophets]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 37

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

Pirush al Nevi’im Acharonim [commentary to the Later Prophets]

Commendatory poem by Judah Abrabanel, son of the author on verso of title. Second edition. Title within architectural border. With rare additional title-page in Latin. Signatures of previous owner on the title: “Yoseph Salnik,” grandson of the author of Responsa Masath Binyamin. Scattered marginalia ff. (2), 305. Few leaves mispaginated as in all copies, first six leaves loose, final leaf laid down, some staining. Contemporary vellum, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 56; St. Cat. Bodl. 479; Zedner p. 122; Roest p. 193; Fuks, Amsterdam 204

Amsterdam: (Immanuel Benveniste) 1641-42

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

THIS COPY WITH THE SCARCE LATIN TITLE-PAGE DATED 1642 - NOT IN THE STEINSCHNEIDER, ZEDNER OR ROEST COPIES. Fuks (no. 204) writes, "Roest states that the copy of the Rosenthal Collection lacks the Latin title-page which he reproduces...He evidently knew a copy with both Lat. and Heb. title-pp. Neither Steinschneider nor Zedner list copies with Lat. title-pp." In the unusual inscription, the previous owner thanks God he "merited to buy this holy, delightful book written by my relative the Gaon of blessed memory. For I too am descended from King David as I am a grandson of the Gaon R. Shlomo Luria." Also cited are other renowned ancestral personalities including the Mahara”m of Padua