Avodath Halevi-Moreh Tzedek [listing of the precepts according to the Torah portion of the week with reference to sources throughout Rabbinic literature]

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Lot 211

SOLOMON BEN ELIEZER HALEVI.

Avodath Halevi-Moreh Tzedek [listing of the precepts according to the Torah portion of the week with reference to sources throughout Rabbinic literature]

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. A wide-margined copy. Signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (Is"h Ge"r) on title and final page, Book-plate of Mayer Sulzberger. ff. 28. Corners dampstained. Modern limp boards. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 286; Mehlman 790

Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1546

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $700

Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929), pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6.