Menorath HaMa’or [“The Candelabrum of Light”: Ethical Treatise]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

ABOAB, ISAAC

printer

Brothers Fillipono

Place

Mantua

Publication

1563

Description

Printer's device at end. Title set in architectural arch.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 95.

summary

First published in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath HaMa’or has been an immensely popular and inspirational ethical work through the centuries. The publisher states on the title-page of the present edition that based upon an old manuscript recently discovered, many errors that appeared in earlier editions have here been corrected.

ff.116. Opening and closing leaves supplied from another copy, stained in places, closely trimmed affecting some headers, trace wormed. Modern boards. Folio.

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