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(“Leone Ebreo.”) Dialoghi di Amore.

Auction 60 · Lot 2

(“Leone Ebreo.”) Dialoghi di Amore.

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$500

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

author

ABRABANEL, JUDAH.

printer

Domenico Giglio

Place

Venice

Publication

1558

Description

Printer’s mark on title.

references

Adams A-63.

summary

The author was the eldest son of Don Isaac Abrabanel and one of the foremost philosophers of the Renaissance. Commonly known as Leone Ebreo, his reputation rests upon the Dialoghi, among the most popular philosophical works of the age. See C. Roth, The Jews in the Renaissance (1959), pp. 128-36.
ff. 246. Despite a few marginal repairs, a bright copy. Recent tinted vellum. 8vo.
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