Dialoghi di Amore

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $850

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author

ABRABANEL, JUDAH (“Leone Ebreo”)

printer

Antonio Baldo d’Assola

Place

Rome

Publication

1535

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device at end. Marginal notations in an early hand, signature of Abbot Leonardi Spinola on f.2r

references

Adams A-59

summary

Author was the eldest son of Don Isaac Abrabanel and one of the foremost philosophers of the Renaissance. Commonly known as Leone Ebreo, his reputation rests upon the Dialoghi, among the most popular philosophical works of the age. See C. Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp.128-36

Lightly discored in places. Modern vermilion morocco. 4to

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