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 118:
SABA, ABRAHAM.
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Sold for: $1,500
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Tzeror Ha’mor [“A Bundle of Myrrh” - Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch].
Second edition. Title within elaborate floral wreathed and garlanded architectural arch and with printer’s device (Yaari’s Printer’s Marks no. 16). Opening word of each Book within elaborate woodcut vignette.
ff. 165. Dampstained, previous owner’s marks, signed by censor at end. Later speckled sheep, Valmadonna-custom gilt-titling on spine. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 293.
Venice: Justinian-Adelkind 1546
The Author (c. 1440-1508) was exiled in 1492 from his native Castille. No sooner did he find refuge in Oporto, Portugal, than King Emanuel ordered all Jews converted and all Hebrew books burned. Saba’s sons were forcibly baptized and his extensive library plundered. He escaped to Fez, Morocco, where he reconstructed this work from memory. See N.S. Libowitz, R. Avraham Saba U’Sepharav (1936); EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 555-6.
