Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text] * BOUND WITH: Yesha Elo-him [commentary to the Hoshanoth and Hakafoth with laws of Lulav]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,250

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

author

PESANTE, MOSES

printer

Solomon Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1567

Description

BOTH FIRST EDITIONS. 19th-century North African purchase notation on front free-endpaper. The Samuel Schoenblum copy

references

Vinograd, Const. 231 and 230 ; Yaari, Const. 172 and 171; Mehlman 615 and 613; not in Adams

summary

Originally stemming from Turkey, Pesante was an emissary of Safed who travelled from 1565 through the Balkan Peninsula. He was murdered in Greece in 1573. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) p. 236

pp. (3), 103, (4). Damp-soiled with marginal wear, opening three leaves supplied from a shorter copy. 19th-century sheep-backed boards, rubbed. 8vo

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