Kad HaKemach [philosophy]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

Second edition. Title within garlanded architectural arch and featuring printer's device of Giustiniani (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 16). Opening words within magnificent engraved surround.

references

Vinograd, Venice 268.

summary

Arranged alphabetically, Kad HaKemach is a virtual encyclopedia of ethics replete with homiletic interpretations of Biblical verses and Aggadic passages. See M. Waxman, Jewish Literature, Vol. II pp. 275-6; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 104-5.

ff. 83. Stained in places (especially ff. 76-7). Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled morocco, spine in compartments, titled on spine in gilt. Housed in fitted slip-case. Folio.

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