(MAIMONIDES/ RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic code]. Fourteen parts in two volumes. With commentaries

Estimate: $20,000–$25,000
Hammer price: $27,000

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

author

MOSES BEN MAIMON

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1550-1

Description

Titles within architectural arches, with repeated Printer’s devices (Yaari no.16 and 17)

references

Vinograd, Venice 409; Habermann, Adelkind 60; Adams M-168

summary

Uncommonly Handsome Copy in a Dramatic Binding

I: 389, (1). Title laid to size, following few leaves remargined, ff.377-8 repaired, few stains. II: ff.(1),394-767,(1); (4). Few light stains in places, first and last leaf neatly rehinged. Later gilt-tooled chestnut mottled calf, rubbed at extremites, remnants of clasps and hinges. Folio

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