Abudraham [commentary to prayers]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,900

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

author

ABUDRAHAM, DAVID BEN JOSEPH

printer

Astruc de Toulon

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1513

Description

Second edition. Printed in double-columns in rabbinic type.

references

Vinograd, Const. 38; Yaari, Const. 22; Mehlman 603; not in Adams

summary

From the first Hebrew book printed in Constantinople in 1492, the Hebrew printing-press was the only one to exist throughout the Ottoman Empire until the 17th-century. In its first two hundred years it produced some 300 Hebrew works.

ff.100. Title crudely remargined, upper corner of f.4 torn with loss, final leaf repaired on verso, few leaves rehinged, stained and wormed in places. Modern buckram. Sm. folio

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