Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 57

ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HA’ROPHÈ.

Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]

<<FIRST EDITION.>>Title within historiated woodcut architectural arch. Wide margins. The Valmadonna copy. ff. 83, (1-blank). Some staining, censors’ signatures and inscriptions on recto and verso of final leaf and fly leaf, ff. 6 and 7 misbound upside down. Recent blind-tooled morocco boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Cremona 47; Benayahu, Cremona 44; Adams B-1335.

Cremona: Christopher Draconi 1576

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

Eliezer Aschkenazi’s Biblical exegesis is permiated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship. This edition of Yosef Lekach, was the last Hebrew book printed in Cremona, which for a little over twenty years was a center of Jewish learning and printing, amidst the rigid censorship of the Inquisition. See D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) pp. 306-19.