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BACHIAH BEN ASHER.
Kad HaKemach [philosophy]
Second edition. Title within garlanded architectural arch and featuring printer's device of Giustiniani (see Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 16). Opening words within magnificent engraved surround.
ff. 83. Stained in places (especially ff. 76-7). Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled morocco, spine in compartments, titled on spine in gilt. Housed in fitted slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 268.
Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani 1546
Arranged alphabetically, Kad HaKemach is a virtual encyclopedia of ethics replete with homiletic interpretations of Biblical verses and Aggadic passages. See M. Waxman, Jewish Literature, Vol. II pp. 275-6; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 104-5.