Kaftor VaFerach [Aggadic novellae]

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 175

LUZZATTO, JACOB.

Kaftor VaFerach [Aggadic novellae]

FIRST EDITION. Censors’ signatures on final page pp.(16), ff. 5-149, 160-162 (12). Stained, wormed and taped in places, few leaves with marginal repairs and supplied from another copy. Modern boards. 4to Vinograd, Basle 171; Prijs 131; Adams L-2095

Basle: A. Froben 1581

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $800

Safed-born Jacob Luzzatto’s work was designed to defend Aggadic passages of the Talmud from Christian attack. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 598-9.