Moreh Nevuchim / Doctor Perplexorum [Guide to the Perplexed]. Translated from ibn Tibbon's Hebrew to Latin by Johanne Buxtorf the Younger

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $250

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author

MAIMONIDES, MOSES

printer

Ludovici König

Place

Basle

Publication

1629

Description

FIRST EDITION of this version. Latin with a few pages of Hebrew. Title within typographic border. Wide-margined copy. Historiated initials. Head- and tailpieces. Opening blank with manuscript index in miniscule Latin hand; also a few scattered marginalia

references

Steinschneider, 6514-106

pp. (40), 532, (52). Browned, otherwise, crisp, clean copy. Later calf-backed boards. 4to

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