Shulchan Aruch: Even Ha’ezer - Choshen Mishpat [code of Jewish Law]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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

author

KARO, JOSEPH

printer

Meir Parenzo for Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1565

Description

FIRST EDITION. Parts III and IV only (of 4), in two volumes. Title page bearing three-crowned printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no.18)

references

Vinograd, Venice 509; Mehlman, 777; Adams J-338

summary

With the rare ttile page to Choshen Mishpat containing the publishers praise for Joseph Karo “Whose light is presently shining in Safed, [and whose] scholarship...is pure.”

I: ff. 74 (of 79) lacking ff. 1,3,77-79 and final blank. II: ff. 162 (of 165) ff.162-65 and final unnumbered leaf supplied in facsimle. Lightly browned, scattered stains and marginal worming, few margins in first volume frayed. Modern blind-tooled deep brown morocco. 4to

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