Pirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

Pirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18). On front fly and title, Hebrew signatures of three generations of Family Rophe. ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Marginal stains. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco with clasps (one clasp missing), spine worn. Folio Vinograd, Venice 641; Mehlman 626

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1579

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,700

"The commentary on the Pentateuch may be considered Abrabanel's most authoritative presentation of his views, and it was not without good reason that he considered it the first and foremost of his works." See B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel (1968) p. 86).