(NACHMANIDES. RaMBa”N). Peirush Ha-Torah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $7,000–$9,000
Hammer price: $17,000

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

author

MOSES BEN NACHMAN

printer

Sons of Soncino

Place

Pesaro

Publication

1513-14

Description

Title within decorative border with ornate floral design; with poem containing the acrostic “Gershom.” Initial words within white-on-black decorative surround

references

Vinograd Pesaro 34; Mehlman 673; St. Cat. Bodl. 6532, 51

summary

EXTREMELY RARE. The bookseller and scholar, David Frankel was wont to advise his clients that early Pesaro books were more scarce and prized than were many incunabula. After Rashi, the most popular commentary to the Pentateuch is undoubtedly that of Nachmanides (b. Gerona, 1194 - d. Eretz Israel, 1270). The fact that there were as many as three incunabule editions (two within a year of one another) of Nachmanides’ Commentary to the Pentateuch, attests to the immense popularity of the work

ff. 177 (of 178), text complete, lacking final blank only (as the Mehlman copy at JNUL). Coontemporary blind-tooled calf, scuffed. Sm. folio

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