Sepher Pirkei Avoth.

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

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

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Lot 90

(CORFU).

Sepher Pirkei Avoth.

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli. Previous owners’ inscriptions with marginalia in English. pp. (8), 427. Gutter split, inner margin taped at end, last page laid down. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo.

Corfu: By the Translator 1885

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $950

One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu - the majority broadsides and all in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, The Hebrew Press in Corfu in: Perakim BeToldoth HaMadphisim Ha’ivri’im (1978) pp. 337-42.