Pirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,700

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author

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

printer

Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1579

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18). On front fly and title, Hebrew signatures of three generations of Family Rophe.

references

Vinograd, Venice 641; Mehlman 626

summary

"The commentary on the Pentateuch may be considered Abrabanel's most authoritative presentation of his views, and it was not without good reason that he considered it the first and foremost of his works." See B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel (1968) p. 86).

ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Marginal stains. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco with clasps (one clasp missing), spine worn. Folio

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