Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 328

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
AARON HA-LEVI of Barcelona, attributed to. Juris Hebraeorum leges CCLXI. Hebrew text with Latin translation and commentary by Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Hottinger (mounted and reinforced with clear tape in margins). [12], 401, [14] pages. 4to, modern 1/2 red leather; contents browned, scattered marginal dampstains. Zurich: Johann Jacob Bodmer, 1655

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first edition of an abridgment of the Sefer ha-Hinnukh, an exposition of the 613 commandments of the Pentateuch composed in 13th-century Spain. The full Hebrew text was first printed in 1523. Sarton II, 885.