Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,700

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

author

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET (RYBA”SH)

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1545-46

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part ornamental woodcut border. Wide-margined copy. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy

references

Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145; Adams I-179

summary

Particularly important for the social history of the Jews in 14th-century Spain. The work was originally sold in single gatherings, it proved to be the last book printed by Soncino in Turkey

ff. 295 (of 303) lacking 8 ( of 21) leaves of indices. 13 leaves of indices bound in at end. Outer margin of title neatly taped on verso, stained, marginal worming in places. Early 20th-century half-morocco, loose. Folio

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