Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text]

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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

author

PESANTE, MOSES

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Solomon Ya’abetz

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1567

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Vinograd, Const. 231; Yaari, Const. 172; Mehlman 615; not in Adams

summary

Originally stemming from Turkey, Pesante travelled through the Balkan Peninsula as an emissary for Safed. He was murdered in Greece in 1573. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) p. 236.

pp. (6), 103, (4). Stained, title rehinged with neat marginal repair. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm. 4to

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