Mirkeveth Ha-Mishnah [commentary to Sepher Devarim]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $900

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author

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1551

Description

FIRST EDITION. With many inscriptions, signatures and stamps of previous owners on the recto and verso of the title, including stamps of the Library of Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin; R. Meir Shapiro (when Rabbi of Piotrkow); earlier 18th- and 19th-century inscriptions indicating the volume was purchased from the estate of R. Berman Segal of Hanau; an early Italian signature; plus a wedding inscription to Reuven “the son of the Tzaddik...Shmuel Bressl[au]er

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1

summary

THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA. Contains an important introduction concerning the establishment of the Hebrew press at Sabbioneta by the editor-publisher Yoseph b. Yaakov of Padua

ff. 132 (of 145), text complete but lacking index - as stated in the German inscription on the final blank

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