Pirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.

Pirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 18) ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Title and several other leaves laid to size with some loss, stained. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 641; Mehlman 626.

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1579

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $775

“The commentary on the Pentateuch may be considered Abravanel’s most authoritative presentation of his views, and it was not without good reason that he considered it the first and foremost of his works. As Abravanel put it: ‘I invested in it all my thought and all my knowledge.’” B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman & Philosopher. (1968) p. 86.