Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $850

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

author

ARAMA, ISAAC

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbioneta

Publication

1552

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated border, printer’s device at end. An attractive copy

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 3

summary

“In Spain, the plague of studying Gentile knowledge in the Christian tongue, which is antithetic to our faith, has spread...” (f. 29a). Regarding this acerbic tract, see Zinberg, Vol. III, pp.257-60. See also I. Sonne, Some Remarks on Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta, in: Kiryat Sepher IV, pp. 269-73; and A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher, pp. 345-47 (a critique of Sonne)

ff.38. Stamp on title and final leaf, marginalia and a small tear on f. 14 affecting few letters, Modern calf-backed boards. 4to

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