Birchath Avraham [sermons, with commentary to Orach Chaim]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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

author

TREVES, ABRAHAM

printer

Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1552

Description

FIRST EDITION. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. 18th-century purchase notation at end

references

Vinograd, Venice 435; Adams T-933

summary

Rare work, printed at a time of tension between the House of Bragadini and the rival printing establishment of Giustiniani. The ensuing litigation between the two firms eventually resulted in the tragic Papal Decree of 1553 condemning the Talmud and it’s associated literature to be burned. See H.B. Friedberg, Toldoth Hadefus Ha’ivri Be’Italia (1956) pp. 67-72

ff. 361. wormed in places, signed by cenors (including Giovanni Domenico Vistorini) on last page. Later half-sheep, wormed. 4to

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