Rav Alfas [Rabbinic code]

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $4,500

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

author

ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F).

printer

Anthony Bruin and Jacob Marcaria

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1558

Description

Fifth edition. With commentaries of Rashi, R. Nissim Gerondi and R. Jonah Gerondi. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi. Three parts in three volumes (not uniform). Titles with Cardinal Christofil Madrucci’s seal and cherubs. Various signatures, extensive Rabbinic marginalia in old hand.

references

Vinograd, Riva di Trento 1; not in Adams

summary

THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN RIVA DI TRENTO.

Vol. I: ff. 268. Vol. II: ff. 48; 853-872 (bound out of sequence; in Vinograd's collation ff. 289-308), 49-219, 784-852 [i.e. 288] (our foliation differs slightly from Vinograd's collation ff. 212, 777-852). Vol. III: ff. 302, (8). Variously stained and soiled in places, paper repairs, trimmed; (Detailed condition report available on request). Modern calf-backed boards. Folio

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