(Tur) Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic code]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

JACOB BEN ASHER

printer

Giorgio di Cavalli

Place

Venice

Publication

1565

Description

With commentary “Beith Yoseph” by Joseph Karo (second edition). Printer’s device on title (Yaari no.32)

references

Vinograd, Venice 499; Adams J-21

summary

Amram speculates that; “[t]he printers’ mark of Cavalli, the elephant bearing a castle, and its significant motto may be interpreted to indicate how the times were changed. The elephant marches “tarde sed tuto,” slowly but surely, like the march of Enlightenment that led man out of the darkness of the Middle Ages.” See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy p.349

ff.232. Few light stains in places, neat marginal repairs to title, previous owners inscriptions on title, marginalia. Modern cloth. Folio

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