Menorath HaMa’or ["The Candelabrum of Light” Ethical Treatise]

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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Menorath HaMa’or ["The Candelabrum of Light” Ethical Treatise]

On final page, printer's device of Brothers Filipponi (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 29). From the Library of Adolph Lewisohn, with his bookplate. ff. 116. Some staining, marginal paper repairs. Later gilt crushed morocco, a.e.g. Boards detached, spine sunned. Sm. folio Vinograd, Mantua 95

Mantua: G. Ruffinelli 1563

Est: $500 - $700

First published in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath HaMa’or has been an immensely popular and inspirational ethical work through the centuries. The publisher state on the title-page of the present edition that based upon an old manuscript recently discovered, many errors that appeared in earlier editions have now been corrected.