MOSES BEN NACHMAN.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,500

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printer

v.p

Place

Prague

Publication

1596

Description

(Nachmanides/RaMBa”N). Drasha [sermon on the fundamentals of faith]. FIRST EDITION. ff. (12). [Vinograd, Prague 80; Mehlman 1224]. Gershom ben Bezalel Katz. * BACHIAH BEN ASHER. Shulchan (shel) Arba [on conduct at table and the Banquet in the World to Come]. Fourth edition. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari, Printer’s Marks no.40). ff. (20). [Vinograd, Prague 82]. Moses Weisswasser

summary

First work a refutation of the tenets of Christianity. A product of Nachmanides’ triumph before King James I of Aragon, during the The Disputation of Barcelona in 1263. See M.A. Cohen, HUCA Vol. XXXV (1964) pp.157-92

Lightly browned, stained in places, final leaf loose. Old boards, detached. Sm.4to

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