Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

BERACHIAH, AARON BEN MOSES OF MODENA

printer

Judah Samuel

Place

Mantua

Publication

1626

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornamental typographic border.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 220; Mehlman 523

summary

A Most Desirable Copy, Finely Bound. Includes laws of visiting the sick, and correct modes of behavior toward the deceased and the mourners.

ff.40, pp.41-55,ff.57-84; 146,149-162, 155-172. Few stained in places, gently damp-wrinkled. Contemporary gilt-ruled and blind-stamped tan mottled-calf, tooled with foliate embellishments surrounding a central cartouche, upper-cover gilt-tooled with the name “”Isaac Franni,” spine in compartments, gently rubbed at edges, lacking clasps and hinges. 4to

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