Sepher HaRoke’ach [ethics, rabbinic law and customs]

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

ELEAZAR BEN JUDAH OF WORMS

printer

Vincenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1557

Description

DELUXE, WIDE MARGINED COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Signatures on title including Dovid ben Shimshon Katz.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 14.

summary

RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. According to Benayahu (HaDefus Ha’ivi BeCremona p. 192) only the Bodleian and Schocken copies exist on blue paper. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 10.

ff. (4), 91, (1). Foxed, some wear, upper margins repaired, some worming, few leaves laid to size, title laid down. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio.

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