Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Vicenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1557

Description

Illustrated title-border with Roman symbols. Various owners signatures and inscriptions on opening leaf including: Eliezer b. Mordechai Jaffe (great-grandson of R. Mordechai Jaffe, author of the Levushim); Moshe Nathan b. Aaron Azriel who purchased it from his mother-in-law.

references

Yudlov, 19; Yaari, 17; Yerushalmi, pl. 21

summary

rare EDITION. Soon after this Hagadah was printed the Church-sponsored burning of the Talmud occurred in Cremona and Vicenzo Conti's Hebrew press was destroyed.

ff. 64. Browned and stained, first and final leaf with slight marginal repair. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. 4to

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