Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 16, 2018
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LOT 110:
MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /
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Estimated price:
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500 - $700
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25%
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RaMBa”M). Hilchoth Yesodei HaTorah - Constitutiones de Fundamentis Legis. pp. (8), 148. <<* Bound with:>> Isaac Abrabanel. Rosh Amanah - De Capite Fidei. pp. 118, (10).f.
Both First Edition in Latin. Both works translated by Willem Hendrik Voorst. Both title-pages with printer’s mark showing astrolabe flanked by angel and human.
Lightly foxed, title and first leaf of text silked, left margin of title removed not affecting text. Bound in Valmadonna-custom morocco-backed boards. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 43; Fuks, 200;
Amsterdam: G. & J. Blaeu 1638
Fuks writes: “As we have not been able to see copies of the work, we cannot give the description of the contents nor the enumeration of the types which have been used.” According to Vinograd, JNUL does not possess a copy.===For the translator, a Christian student of Menasseh ben Israel, see A. L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (Cambridge, 1984) pp. 235-47.
