Auction 83
PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HOLY LAND MAPS, CEREMONIAL OBJECTS, FINE & GRAPHIC ART
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LOT 43:
BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.
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BALMES, ABRAHAM DE.
Mikneh Avram - Peculium Abrae.
FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Interesting ownership inscription on f. 5r.
ff. (316). Trace wormed, lightly stained in places, title-page with stamp and repaired. Later vellum-backed boards, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 81; Mehlman 1868.
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523
Distinguished in many fields, de Balmes served as physician to Cardinal Grimani of Venice and lectured at the University of Padua where he attained renown as an Aristotelian. Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Daniel Bomberg, with whom a deep friendship was shared. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-7.
Distinguished in many fields, de Balmes served as physician to Cardinal Grimani of Venice and lectured at the University of Padua where he attained renown as an Aristotelian. Greatly valued by contemporary Christian Hebraists, de Balmes prepared this grammar at the urging of the printer Daniel Bomberg, with whom a deep friendship was shared. See D. Amram, the Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1909) pp. 169-7.
