Yad Hamelech [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $600

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

author

VALERIO, SAMUEL

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1586

Description

FIRST EDITION. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. Title within architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Venice 690; Habermann, di Gara 80; Adams V-59 (and repeated, though citing another copy, B-1338)

summary

Valerio, was a physician, who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote other commentries to the Bible (see next lot), the present one, was completed in Corfu in 1579

ff. 104. Marginal notations, lightly discolored. 19th-century cloth-backed boards, rubbed. 8vo

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