RaMBa”M). Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed”]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $700

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author

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES/.

printer

Cornilio Adelkind for Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbionetta

Publication

1553

Description

Third edition. With commentaries by Shem-Tov, Ephodi and ibn Crescas. Title within historiated border. Printer’s device on title (cf. Yaari no. 20). With: Provencal, Moses. Biur Inyan Shenei Kavim [dissertation on the Theorem of Apollonius]. Bound following title. lacking from most copies.

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 8; Haberman, Adelkind 113; not in Adams

summary

Maimonides discusses in the Guide the Theorem of Apollonius on two straight lines that never meet. Moses. Provencal’s dissertation and commentary on the Theorem was translated into Italian in 1550 and from Italian to Latin in 1586. See: C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp. 28-29, 236, 266.

ff. (15, of 16) lacking one leaf of indices; 174. Light dampstains in places, title remargined slightly affecting woodcut, scattered worming affecting a few letters, paper repairs to last few leaves. Recent morocco. Folio

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