Sepher Pirkei Avoth.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $950

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

author

(CORFU).

printer

By the Translator

Place

Corfu

Publication

1885

Description

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli. Previous owners’ inscriptions with marginalia in English.

summary

One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu - the majority broadsides and all in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, The Hebrew Press in Corfu in: Perakim BeToldoth HaMadphisim Ha’ivri’im (1978) pp. 337-42.

pp. (8), 427. Gutter split, inner margin taped at end, last page laid down. Contemporary boards, rubbed. 8vo.

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