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Auction 5 · Lot 136

(Gaon of Pumbeditha). Shirei Musar Haskal [ethical poem]

Estimate
$2,000–$2,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

HAI BEN SHERIRA

printer

Gulielmus Morelius

Place

Paris

Publication

1559

Description

Third edition. Hebrew text only

references

Vinograd, Paris 37(unseen); cf. Adams H-17

summary

The first Hebrew work printed in Paris of a literary nature. All previous Parisian Hebrew printed books were concerned with either Hebrew grammar or the Bible. For a description of the present work, see JE, VI 154
ff.23. Lightly stained. Recent boards. 12mo
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