Even Ha’ezer, Sepher RABa”N [novellae and discourses]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $750

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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. Ex-library. Browned with scattered staining, marginal repair to title (with loss) and first few leaves. Later half-calf, spine chipped. Folio

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