Auction 96
FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Feb 9, 2022
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LOT 330:
MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES/
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Sold for: $750
Start price:
$
450
Estimated price :
$500 - $700
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES/
RaMBa’N). Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and the dying, and the After-Life].
Second edition. With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2.
ff. 108. Later boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 815.
Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1595
The final pagecontains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in the year 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. - Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee.”
