Auction 72
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Mar 17, 2017
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LOT 183:
MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.
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Sold for: $550
Estimated price:
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600 - $900
Auction house commission:
25%
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Nishmath Chaim [on the immortality of the Soul].
FIRST EDITION. Hebrew title within architectural arch. Additional Latin title-page, dedication to Emperor Ferdinand III and Argumentum Operis: Latin contents of each chapter. A wide margined copy. Latin marginalia. ff. (8), 174, (2), (4), (4). Lacking portrait (as most all copies). Some staining, slight repair to Hebrew title with few letters in facsimile, previous owners' inscriptions on Hebrew title and front endpaper, Hebrew and Latin titles and initial supplied from a slightly shorter copy, initial two Latin leaves with repair to lower margin. Later mottled calf, rebacked and recornered. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 202; Mehlman 1211; Fuks, Amsterdam 190; Silva Rosa 59.
Samuel Soeiro (the author's son), Amsterdam: 1652.
Menasseh's celebrated Nishmath Chaim is of fundamental importance to Jewish theology and is the great rabbi's magnum opus.
