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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HAROFÈ

printer

Christoforo Draconi

Place

Cremona

Publication

1576

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut architecural arch.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 47.

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, few tears, ff.2-4 misbound. Recent boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to.

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