Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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

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Lot 177

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES / RaMBa”N).

Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

Second edition. From the collection of the Anglo-Jewish scholar Gerald M. Friedlander with his dense notations. ff. 108. Light wear, trimmed. Marbled endpapers, 19th-century 3/4 crushed morocco, a.e.g., upper cover starting, gilt-tooled spine rubbed. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874.

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1595

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. The verso of the final leaf, contains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in the year 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs by stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. - Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee.”