Even Ha’ezer, Sepher RABa”N [customs, liturgy, novellae and responsa]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

ELIEZER BEN NATHAN

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1610

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37)

references

Vinograd, Prague 186

summary

Contributes much to the knowledge of the state of scholarship and way of life of the Jews of France and Germany in the 12th-century

ff. 154. Lightly browned with scattered staining,some leaves loose, with signatures of previous owners on the title and f. 13, including Eliezer ben Eliahu Kumny (?) of Frankfurt and Amsterdam, Dov-Ber Linder and Chaim David Zohn with scattered marginalia by the latter. Ex-library. Contemporary calf on heavy wooden boards, broken. Folio

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