Arugath Habosem [grammar, with section on Hebrew cryptography]. FIRST EDITION

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $850

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author

ARCHIVOLTI, SAMUEL D’.

printer

Giovanni di Gara and Daniel Zanetti

Place

Venice

Publication

1602

Description

Many charts, diagrams and unusual devices. ff. 119 (i.e. 118), (2). * BOUND WITH: MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE) DA. Midbar Yehudah [collected sermons and eulogies]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 104

references

Vinograd, Venice 953; Habermann, di Gara 215; not in Adams. And Vinograd, Venice, 948

summary

A fortunate marriage of works: Modena (1571-1648), a child-progidy, was sent away aged nine to study with Archivolti in Padua. f.80r presents a poem written by Modena in memory of another of his teachers, Moses della Rocca. The poem makes sense whether read as Italian or as Hebrew

Both titles within ornamental surrounds. Touch stained. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards, 4to

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