GABBAI IZIDRO, ABRAHAM. Yad Avraham [Kabbalistic verse commentary on the “Azharot”]

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $1,300

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Sussmanns-Jansson

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1758

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within a typographical border

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1765; Kayserling 48

summary

This rare volume was published posthumously by the author’s widow who had settled in Bayonne. A Spanish Marrano, Gabbai Izidro (Ysidro) fled from the Inquisition to London where he returned to Jewish practice. He later served as Rabbi in Surinam and then Barbados, two of the oldest Jewish settlements in the Americas. See EJ, VII col. 233

ff. (4), 12. Few stains, marginal paper repairs. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo

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