Shiltei Hagiborim [on the Second Temple]

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

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

author

PORTALEONE, ABRAHAM

printer

Vicenzo Gonzaga

Place

Mantua

Publication

1612

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles all within a decorative typographical border

references

Vinograd, Mantua 196

summary

An encyclopedic work on war, music, numismatics, weaponry, architecture - all discussed in order to elucidate the details of the Temple in Jerusalem. “Portaleone’s treatment is so discursive as to make the work a compendium of all branches of of science known in his day, in which all of the ten languages he knew were amply used.” EJ, XIII cols.908-9. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp.315-9

ff. (12), 186. Lightly foxed, scattered worming, taped in places, occassionally affecting a few letters, opening two leaves from another copy, many leaves rehinged, marginalia, signed by censor on final leaf. Later blind-tooled morocco. Folio

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