Chazuth Kashah [“Grievous Vision”]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $700

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.

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 concerning Tobias Foa)

ff. 38. Some staining, soiled in places, clean tear on f. 3 tape-repaired. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 4to

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