Kaftor VaFerach [Aggadic novellae]

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Lot 173

LUZZATTO, JACOB

Kaftor VaFerach [Aggadic novellae]

FIRST EDITION. Scholarly marginal notes in a 19th century Ashkenazic hand. ff.(16), 5-149, 160-162. Ex-library. Title reinforced, lightly stained. Contemporary blind-tooled calf on heavy wooden boards, remnants of metal hinges, spine rebacked. 4to Vinograd, Basle 171; Prijs 131

Basle: A. Froben 1581

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

Safed-born Jacob Luzzatto’s Kaftor VaFerach was designed to defend the legends of the Talmud against attacks by Christian censors. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 598-9.