(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethics]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,800

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author

LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL

printer

Gershom ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1596

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historited woodcut border.

references

Vinograd, Prague 81; Mehlman 1199; not in Adams

summary

The most concentrated treatment of the MaHaRa”L’s comments on matters of ethical interest. For a detailed analysis of the ethical thought of the MaHaRa”L found in Nethivoth Olam, see M.Fox, The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRa”L, in; Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983), pp.167-185.

ff. 131 (i.e. 132). Lightly browned, stained in places, title re-hinged. Recent boards. Folio

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