BASS, SHABBETHAI. Sifthei Yesheinim [bibliography]

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 244

(Luzzatto, Samuel David)

BASS, SHABBETHAI. Sifthei Yesheinim [bibliography]

First Edition. Hebrew signature on title: "Haham Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua, 1835." ff. 20, pp. 92, ff. 93-108. Title laid to size, trimmed and stained. Contemporary calf, worn. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 461; Mehlman, 1361; Fuks, Amsterdam 469

Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas 1678-80

Est: $700 - $1,000

The First Hebrew Bibliography. The Copy of the Shada'l, Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-65) Contains some 2,200 Hebraic titles including manuscripts. Shabbetai Bass’s (1641-1718) also composed Siphthei Chachamim, a highly popular super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch. Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865) was one of the last great representatives of the Italian tradition of Jewish learning which combined broad scholarship with rigid Orthodoxy. He taught at the Rabbinical College of Padua for almost four decades and remains celebrated due to his masterful Bible commentary. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 604-07