Auction 85
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Nov 7, 2019
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LOT 4:
ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.
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Sold for: $10,000
Estimated price :
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8,000 - $10,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On commission only
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ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC.
Perush Nevi'im Acharonim [commentary to Later Prophets]. Along with text of Bible.
FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title page (although a handful of copies contain a half-title). Text of Bible in square Hebrew characters provided with nikud. Commentary of Abrabanel in Rabbinic cursive script. Some marginal notations.
ff. 395 (of 398), ornamental opening page provided in facsimile, all text leaves present, only lacking two blanks. Trimmed occasionally affecting headnotes, stained, censored (signed) throughout with removed words or lines occasionally replaced in an early hand, few marginal repairs and repaired worming. Modern blind-tooled calf. Thick folio. Vinograd, Pesaro 51.
Pesaro: Soncino 1520
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF ABRABANEL'S COMMENTARY TO LATER PROPHETS. Primarily a philosophical, theological, ethical and to some extent historical commentary, Abrabanel’s method as an exegete is entirely novel, prefacing each section of each Book with a number of questions and then interpreting that section in such a manner as to gradually resolve them. The preface includes Abrabanel’s account of his life in Spain and the subsequent Expulsion.
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF ABRABANEL'S COMMENTARY TO LATER PROPHETS. Primarily a philosophical, theological, ethical and to some extent historical commentary, Abrabanel’s method as an exegete is entirely novel, prefacing each section of each Book with a number of questions and then interpreting that section in such a manner as to gradually resolve them. The preface includes Abrabanel’s account of his life in Spain and the subsequent Expulsion.
