Shiltei Hagiborim [on the Second Temple]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $2,250

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

author

PORTALEONE, ABRAHAM

printer

Vicenzo Gonzaga

Place

Mantua

Publication

1612

Description

FIRST EDITION. Four parts in one. Three divisional titles all within a decorative typographical border.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 196

summary

An encyclopaedic work on war, music, numismatics, weaponry, architecture - all discussed in order to elucidate the details of the Temple in Jerusalem. “Portaleone’s treatment is so discursive as to make the work a compendium of all branches of of science known in his day, in which all of the ten languages he knew were amply used.” EJ, XIII cols.908-9. See C. Roth, Jews in the Renaissance (1959) pp.315-9.

ff. 12, 186. Lightly stained in places, neat marginal repairs on a few leaves, clean tear on final leaf repaired. Later gilt-tooled tan mottled calf, rubbed at corners, re-backed. Folio

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