Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $550

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

author

MAIMONIDES, MOSES.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1553

Description

Third edition. With commentaries by Shem-Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas. Title within historiated border, verso of title with 1904 van Biema auction label

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8; Habermann, Adelkind 113; not in Adams

Stained and wormed in places, ff.87-88 supplied from another copy, lacks (as most copies) the final two ff. of Moses Provencal’s Theorem of Apollonius, severely censored in places by Antonio Francesco Enriques

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