VIOLA, ANDREA ALVISE. Compilazione delle leggi…banchi del ghetto

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 225

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VIOLA, ANDREA ALVISE. Compilazione delle leggi…banchi del ghetto

Set divided in five volumes, of which ours, devoted to the banks of the Ghetto, is Vol. V, Part II. Wide margins. pp.(8), 179-273, 272-611, (1 blank), 30, (4). Crisp, clean copy. Contemporary marbled boards, gutter split. Lg. 4to

(Venice): Pinelli 1786

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF JEWISH BANKING IN THE GHETTO OF VENICE This volume is devoted entirely to the three Jewish banks that operated within the Venetian Ghetto. See B. Ravid, The Jewish Mercantile Settlement of Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Venice: Reality or Conjecture? in: AJS Review (1977), pp. 201-25; B. Ravid, The Legal Status of the Jews in Venice to 1509 in: PAAJR, Vol. 54 (1987) pp. 169-202; M. Berengo, Gli Ebrei veneziani all fine del Settecento in: Italia Judaica, Vol. 3 (1989) pp. 9-30