Avudraham [commentary to prayers]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,800

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

author

ABUDRAHAM, DAVID BEN JOSEPH

printer

Astruc de Toulon

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1513

Description

Second edition. The Mayer Sulzberger copy

references

Vinograd, Const. 38; Yaari, Const. 22; Mehlman 603; not in Adams

summary

From the first Hebrew book printed in Constantinople in 1492, the Hebrew printing-press was the only one to exist throughout the Ottoman Empire until the 17th-century. In its first two hundred years it produced some 300 Hebrew works

ff. 98 (of 100), lacking f.79 and final leaf (though supplied in manuscript). Opening two leaves remargined, upper corners of final leaves repaired with some loss, wormed and stained in places. Recent boards, detached. Sm. folio

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