Auction 98 Auction of Fine Judaica
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jun 16, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 225:

LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL
(MaHaRa'L of Prague).
Chibur Nethivoth ...

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LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL
(MaHaRa'L of Prague).
Chibur Nethivoth Olam [ethics].


FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border.
ff. 131 (i.e. 132). Foxed and browned, few marginal repairs, stamp erased from title, some small burnholes (affecting a few letters). 18th-century tree calf, colored morocco spine labels titled in Hebrew and with initials “JK.” Rubbed, some wear at joints. Folio. Vinograd, Prague 81; Mehlman 1199; not in Adams


Prague: Gershom ben Bezalel Katz 1596

Rare first edition of the Nesivos Olam - the most concentrated treatment of the MaHaRa”L’s positions on ethics. For a detailed analysis of the ethical thought of the MaHaRa”L found in Nethivoth Olam, see M. Fox, The Moral Philosophy of MaHaRa”L, in: Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (1983) pp. 167-185. Provenance: Christie’s (East), Rare Printed Books, 28th April, 1995, Lot 92.


הערה: הקטלוג העברית מיועד להנגיש את המכירה לציבור הישראלי הרחב. עם זאת, הטקסט בעברית עלול לחסר מידע חיוני על הפריט. על כל מציע לעיין בתיאור הפריט באנגלית לפני ההצעה. לא ניתן לבטל רכישה לאחר המכירה על סמך תיאור פריט שחיסר מידע בעברית.

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