Joseph Albo. Sepher Ha’ikrim [philosophy]. With first edition of the commentary Eitz Shathul by Gedalyah ben Shlomo.

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(HEIDENHEIM, WOLF).

printer

Caleoni for Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1618

Description

Woodcut diagramatic text illustrations. The Wolf Heidenheim Copy, with his signature in a neat cursive Hebrew hand on the title and his detailed autograph marginal notes on ff. 94-95. Note on front pastedown confirming the attribution to Heidenheim.

references

Vinograd, Venice 1112.

summary

A student of Rabbis Nathan Adler of Frankfurt and Noah Chaim Tzvi Berlin of Altona, Wolf Heidenheim (1757-1832) acquired an outstanding reputation as a most diligent and punctilious Hebrew grammarian, masoretic scholar as well as a most excellent Hebrew printer.

ff. 144. Contemporary calf, worn. Folio.

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