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Judah Liwa ben Bezalel (Maharal of Prague). Derekh ha-Chayyim (commentary on Pirkei Avot, with text).
Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, 1589, 30.5 x 19.2 cm.
First edition, 117 (misnumbered) leaves; gathered in 19 signed quires of 6 leaves and one of 3 (lacking the errata leaf mentioned by Rosenthal, Anhang 417). Title within architectural woodcut, with library stamp, soiled, two paper repairs at outer margin not affecting illustration, 7 small woodcut cartouche head-pieces, the third quire (6 leaves: 13-18) and leaves 27; 28; misbound, staining and browning, a small wormhole through mainly blank inner margins but slightly affecting single letters of 2 quires, lower margins of last two leaves remargined not affecting text, tightly bound without loss of text, 19th Century leather backed cloth boards, joints split, painted edges, despite the flaws still a very good copy.
Provenance: London Beth Din Library (with release stamp).
Seeligmann in the important pre-war Van-Biema catalogue, (Amsterdam 1904 no. 532), classified the book as "Sehr Selten"; Cowley 398; Roest 825; Zedner 551; Yudlov, Mehlman Collection 130; Muneles p. 20 no. 24.
Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz, 1589, 30.5 x 19.2 cm.
First edition, 117 (misnumbered) leaves; gathered in 19 signed quires of 6 leaves and one of 3 (lacking the errata leaf mentioned by Rosenthal, Anhang 417). Title within architectural woodcut, with library stamp, soiled, two paper repairs at outer margin not affecting illustration, 7 small woodcut cartouche head-pieces, the third quire (6 leaves: 13-18) and leaves 27; 28; misbound, staining and browning, a small wormhole through mainly blank inner margins but slightly affecting single letters of 2 quires, lower margins of last two leaves remargined not affecting text, tightly bound without loss of text, 19th Century leather backed cloth boards, joints split, painted edges, despite the flaws still a very good copy.
Provenance: London Beth Din Library (with release stamp).
Seeligmann in the important pre-war Van-Biema catalogue, (Amsterdam 1904 no. 532), classified the book as "Sehr Selten"; Cowley 398; Roest 825; Zedner 551; Yudlov, Mehlman Collection 130; Muneles p. 20 no. 24.