Yosef Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text].

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $700

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author

ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HAROFÈ

printer

Christopher Draconi

Place

Cremona

Publication

1576

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut architectural arch. Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Cremona 47; Benayahu, Cremona 44.

summary

Eliezer Aschkenazi held influential positions in widely scattered Jewish communites from Egypt, Cyprus and Italy to the major 16th-century centers in Poland, where he died. His Biblical exegesis is permeated with the contemporary rationalistic spirit of rabbinical scholarship.

ff. 83. Ex-library, stained, marginal repair to title, stamps removed on opening and closing leaves. Later marbled boards, distressed. Sm. 4to.

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