Ma’ayenei HaYeshu'ah [commentary on the eschatological chapters in the Book of Daniel]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

Ma’ayenei HaYeshu'ah [commentary on the eschatological chapters in the Book of Daniel]

<<FIRST EDITION.>>Title within historiated architectural border. Marginalia. ff. 141,(1). Mispaginated but complete. Small holes in title, text unaffected. Waterstained, marginal worming, few taped repairs. Modern calf-backed boards. 4to Vinograd, Ferrara 5; Mehlman 625; not in Adams.

(Ferrara): Samuel Gallus (Zarfati) 1551

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

Following the Spanish Expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the survivors of the catastrophe, including Don Isaac Abrabanel, struggled to comprehend their suffering and were seized with acute passions of Messianism. Ma'ayenei HaYeshu'ah (“Wells of Salvation”) is the first book of Abrabanel's trilogy on the imminence of the Messiah's coming. See Benzion Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (1968) pp. 77-8.