Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah Portions]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $500

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author

HALEVI, TOBIAS BEN ABRAHAM

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1605

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch.

references

Vinograd, Venice 986; Habermann, di Gara 232

summary

The author hailed from Safed and frequently cites his mentor R. Solomon Sagis as well as other great scholars of Safed. His fellow student, Joseph di Trani quotes Halevi’s work in Tzophnath Pane’ach (see Lot 260) and refers to him as his “colleague in Torah and Mitzvoth”

ff. 314. Stained in places. Contemporary blind-tooled chestnut morocco, rebacked, rubbed at edges. Folio

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