(Arbah Turim) Orach Chaim [Rabbinic law]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1550

Description

Title within elaborately garlanded woodcut architectural arch. Opening letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Printer’s mark on title (Yaari no. 16)

references

Vinograd, Venice 387; Habermann, Adelkind 59; Mehlman 730; Adams J-16

summary

FIRST EDITION with THE commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo.

ff. 24, 459. f.73 misbound, f.380 duplicated. Light stains in places, neat marginal repairs to title and first few leaves, marginal repair to f.437 affecting a few words, last three leaves remargined with loss of a few words provided in manuscript on ff. 457-8, scattered marginalia in an old-hand. Modern boards. Thick folio

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