Torah Ohr

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

YACHYA, JOSEPH BEN DAVID, IBN.

printer

The Company of Silk-Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1538

Description

FIRST EDITION. Opening word within ornamental woodcut border. On verso of title, pictographic introductory poem in the form of a Candelabrum. Wide margins. On title, signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano, "Is"h Ge"r."

references

Vinograd, Bologna 13; Mehlman 1202; not in Adams

summary

"Ish-Ger" Copy. Divided into 78 chapters, Torah Ohr deals with topics such as Heaven and Hell based upon the agadic sayings of the Talmud. The introduction contains interesting biographical information concerning the flight of the well-to-do Don Yachya family from Lisbon, Portugal via Castille, to Pisa, Tuscany in 1496

ff. 36. Trace stained, few censor expurgations. Modern blind-tooled chestnut morocco. Sm. 4to

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