(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $3,000

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

author

ISAAC B”R SHESHETH PERFET

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1546

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within four-part ornamental border. The Tzvi Hirsch Berlin - Solomon Hirschel Copy, with their signatures. With signatures of prior 17th century owners

references

Vinograd, Const. 193; Yaari, Const. 145; Adams I-179

summary

Particularly important for the social history of the Jews in 14th-century Spain. The work was originally sold in single gatherings, it proved to be the last book printed by Soncino in Turkey

ff.12,281,10. Dampstained, taped repairs along opening and closing few leaves, some loss on f.2 . Later blind-tooled chestnut mottled calf, worn and repaired. Folio

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