Mivchar Hapeninim. * Yedaiah (Hapenini) Bedersi. Bechinath Olam. * Kalonymos of Arles. Even Bochan. Appended: Demuth Kisei Shlomo HaMelech.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,400

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

author

IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Three ethical works bound in one (as issued). Second edition. Two sub-titles. Opening words within elaborate woodcut border. Several signatures and stamps including of Bendit Shaier Segal of Hamburg, Jonas Billitzer of Debreczen, etc.

references

Vinograd, Venice 260, 263, 271.

summary

Provenance: The consignor, an emigre from the former Soviet Union, relates that this book was acquired in the late 1970’s from the derelict location of the famed Slabodka Yeshiva, situated in Kovno (Kaunas, now Vilijampolė), Lithuania.

ff. 40; 41-56; 57-88. Stained, repair on upper corner of final leaf. Later vellum, soiled. Sm. 4to.

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