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Auction 17 · Lot 293

/RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’adam [laws concerning the sick, the dying and the after-life]

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
$300

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

author

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1595

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title

references

Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874

summary

With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. Verso of final leaf, with the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the condition and destitution of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in 1260
ff. 108. Few light dampstains in places, previous owners signature on title. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco boards. Sm. 4to
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