Ho’il Moshe [collected sermons].

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $750

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author

ALFALAS, MOSES

printer

Daniel Zanetti

Place

Venice

Publication

1597

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch.

references

Vinograd, Venice 830.

summary

The late 16th-century preacher Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRa”L, R. Judah Löw of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, while giving them novel meaning.

ff. 139 (9). Trimmed, dampstained. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm. 4to.

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