Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

AUCTION 48 | Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Featuring an Exceptional Collection of American Judaica

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ARAMA, ISAAC

Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed architectural columns, printer’s device at end (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 19) ff. 38. Stains and Church-censored lines. Some of sidebars lost to marginal cropping. Modern patterned boards. 4to Vinograd, Sabbioneta 3

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1552

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $580

“In Spain, the plague of studying Gentile knowledge in the Christian tongue, which is antithetic to our faith, has spread…” (f. 29r.). Regarding this acerbic tract, see Zinberg, Vol. III, pp. 257-60; I. Sonne, "Some Remarks on Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta," in Kiryath Sepher IV, pp. 269-273; and A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 345-347 (a critique of Sonne).