Kaftor VaFerach [Aggadic novellae]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

LUZZATTO, JACOB

printer

A. Froben

Place

Basle

Publication

1581

Description

FIRST EDITION. Scholarly marginal notes in a 19th century Ashkenazic hand.

references

Vinograd, Basle 171; Prijs 131

summary

Safed-born Jacob Luzzatto’s Kaftor VaFerach was designed to defend the legends of the Talmud against attacks by Christian censors. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 598-9.

ff.(16), 5-149, 160-162. Ex-library. Title reinforced, lightly stained. Contemporary blind-tooled calf on heavy wooden boards, remnants of metal hinges, spine rebacked. 4to

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