Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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(Ed.) Chochmath HaMazaloth - Kalendarium Hebraicum.
FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Latin. Printer’s device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf. Numerous woodcut astronomical illustrations. Historiated woodcut initials. Includes both foldout plates (between pp. 52-53 and pp. 116-117) found in only a few copies (cf. Prijs, Basle 24). pp. (8), 200, (16). Few light stains. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Basle 23; Mehlman 1871.
Johann Froben, Basle: 1527.
Important collection of Jewish astronomical, chronological and calendrical treatises, together with philosophical poems.
