Neveh Shalom [philosophy]

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Lot 209

SHALOM, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC.

Neveh Shalom [philosophy]

Second edition. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. Scattered marginalia in a Sephardic hand. ff. (4), 213, (15). Ex-library, some staining. Later half-calf. 4to Vinograd, Venice 607; Habermann, di Gara 37

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1575

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $350

A series of homilies on aggadic passages in the Talmud, interwoven with a discussion meant to serve as a defense of Maimonides’ reconciliation of Greek philosophy and Jewish thought. The author had a thorough command of all fields of knowledge of his time and this work is rich in references to Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. See EJ, XIV, cols. 1270-1.