Bidspirit auction | YA’AVETZ, JOSEPH

YA’AVETZ, JOSEPH - Peirush Masecheth Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers]. First Edition. ff. (96). Browned and stained, margins of few leaves touch frayed toward end, inscriptions on opening leaf including the name Shmuel Pinto. Bound in -custom blind-tooled maroon crushed morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Housed in slip-case. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Adrianople 3; Mehlman 132; S.J. Weiss, Pirkei Avot no. 15. Adrianople: Solomon & Joseph Ya’avetz (grandsons of the Author) 1555 One of only four books printed at Adrianople (Turkey) all uncommonly scarce. Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz, the authors’ grandsons, set up a Hebrew press in Salonika in 1546. Fleeing Salonika in 1554, likely due to plague, they reestablished their press in Adrianople (presently named Edirne on the Turkish-Greek frontier). A year later, Solomon went to Constantinople and Joseph returned to Salonika where he was active as a printer until 1572 when he rejoined his brother in Constantinople.