Cheshek Shlomo [commentary to the Book of Isaiah, with text].

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

HALEVI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC.

printer

Mattathias Bath-Sheva (Bassevi)

Place

Salonika

Publication

1600

Description

First Edition. Title within wreathed architectural columns. Various attractive printer’s devices. Wider margins, uncut.

references

Vinograd, Salonika 154; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 66.

summary

A native of Salonika, the author (1532-1600) writes in the introduction that his grandfather, the physician Maestro Solomon Halevi, a Spanish exile by way of Portugal, settled in Salonika a century earlier. This work continues the Sephardic tradition in both its rationalist and mystical aspects: citing at times Maimonides' Guide, at other times, the Zohar.

ff. 157. Lightly stained, few neat marginal repairs, stamps removed. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled crushed morocco, outer edges gilt. Folio.

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