Avodath Halevi-Moreh Tzedek [listing of the precepts according to the Torah portion of the week with reference to sources throughout Rabbinic literature]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $700

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

author

SOLOMON BEN ELIEZER HALEVI.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. A wide-margined copy. Signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (Is"h Ge"r) on title and final page, Book-plate of Mayer Sulzberger.

references

Vinograd, Venice 286; Mehlman 790

summary

Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929), pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6.

ff. 28. Corners dampstained. Modern limp boards. 8vo

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