Ma’ayenei HaYeshu'ah [commentary on the eschatological chapters in the Book of Daniel]

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,250

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

author

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

printer

Samuel Gallus (Zarfati)

Place

(Ferrara)

Publication

1551

Description

FIRST EDITION.Title within historiated architectural border. Marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Ferrara 5; Mehlman 625; not in Adams.

summary

Following the Spanish Expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the survivors of the catastrophe, including Don Isaac Abrabanel, struggled to comprehend their suffering and were seized with acute passions of Messianism. Ma'ayenei HaYeshu'ah (“Wells of Salvation”) is the first book of Abrabanel's trilogy on the imminence of the Messiah's coming. See Benzion Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (1968) pp. 77-8.

ff. 141,(1). Mispaginated but complete. Small holes in title, text unaffected. Waterstained, marginal worming, few taped repairs. Modern calf-backed boards. 4to

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