Shulchan shel Arba [laws and customs on proper conduct at table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come and resurrection of the dead].

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

printer

Samuel Latif

Place

Mantua

Publication

1514

Description

first edition. Issued without title-page. Marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 15; Mehlman 961; St. Cat. Bodl. col. 779, no. 16.

summary

Mehlman and Vinograd call for ff. 16 (counting two blanks); Steinschneider has ff. 14 as our copy. Bizarrely, the colophon misattributes the author of the work.

ff. 14. Trimmed, few light stains, small marginal repair to first and final leaf. Modern tooled calf, slip-case. Sm. 4to.

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