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RaMBa”M). Hilchoth Yesodei HaTorah - Constitutiones de Fundamentis Legis. pp. (8), 148. * Bound with: Isaac Abrabanel. Rosh Amanah - De Capite Fidei. pp. 118, (10).f.

Auction 79 · Lot 110

RaMBa”M). Hilchoth Yesodei HaTorah - Constitutiones de Fundamentis Legis. pp. (8), 148. * Bound with: Isaac Abrabanel. Rosh Amanah - De Capite Fidei. pp. 118, (10).f.

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /

printer

G. & J. Blaeu

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1638

Description

Both First Edition in Latin. Both works translated by Willem Hendrik Voorst. Both title-pages with printer’s mark showing astrolabe flanked by angel and human.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 43; Fuks, 200;

summary

Fuks writes: “As we have not been able to see copies of the work, we cannot give the description of the contents nor the enumeration of the types which have been used.” According to Vinograd, JNUL does not possess a copy. For the translator, a Christian student of Menasseh ben Israel, see A. L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (Cambridge, 1984) pp. 235-47.
Lightly foxed, title and first leaf of text silked, left margin of title removed not affecting text. Bound in Valmadonna-custom morocco-backed boards. 4to.
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