Bidspirit auction | HALEVI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC.

HALEVI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC. - Cheshek Shlomo [commentary to the Book of Isaiah, with text]. First Edition. Title within wreathed architectural columns. Various attractive printer’s devices. Wider margins, uncut. ff. 157. Lightly stained, few neat marginal repairs, stamps removed. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled crushed morocco, outer edges gilt. Folio. Vinograd, Salonika 154; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 66. Salonika: Mattathias Bath-Sheva (Bassevi) 1600 A native of Salonika, the author (1532-1600) writes in the introduction that his grandfather, the physician Maestro Solomon Halevi, a Spanish exile by way of Portugal, settled in Salonika a century earlier.===This work continues the Sephardic tradition in both its rationalist and mystical aspects: citing at times Maimonides' Guide, at other times, the Zohar.