Bidspirit auction | YA’AKOV BEN ASHER. (Arbah Turim)

YA’AKOV BEN ASHER. (Arbah Turim) Yoreh De’ah [Rabbinic Code]. With commentary by R. Yoseph Karo. Title within wodcut architectural arch. Opening words within decorative woodcut border-piece. Marginalia. ff. 400, (28). Title remargined, dampsoiling to margins of final few leaves with some crude repairs affecting text. Modern boards. Thick folio. Vinograd, Venice 595. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1574. Afterword by the editor and proofreader, Yachya ben Abraham ibn Chamu, hopeful that the publisher, Chaim ibn Saruk, will successfully influence the appropriate authorities and continue to permit the further printing of Hebrew Books.