VIOLA, ANDREA ALVISE. Compilazione delle leggi…banchi del ghetto

Estimate

$1,200–$1,800

Hammer price

Not recorded

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

author

(ITALY)

printer

Pinelli

Place

(Venice)

Publication

1786

Description

Set divided in five volumes, of which ours, devoted to the banks of the Ghetto, is Vol. V, Part II. Wide margins.

summary

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF JEWISH BANKING IN THE GHETTO OF VENICE This volume is devoted entirely to the three Jewish banks that operated within the Venetian Ghetto. See B. Ravid, The Jewish Mercantile Settlement of Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Venice: Reality or Conjecture? in: AJS Review (1977), pp. 201-25; B. Ravid, The Legal Status of the Jews in Venice to 1509 in: PAAJR, Vol. 54 (1987) pp. 169-202; M. Berengo, Gli Ebrei veneziani all fine del Settecento in: Italia Judaica, Vol. 3 (1989) pp. 9-30

pp.(8), 179-273, 272-611, (1 blank), 30, (4). Crisp, clean copy. Contemporary marbled boards, gutter split. Lg. 4to

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