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LEVI BEN GERSHON. (RALBAG-GERSONIDES). Sefer Milchamot ha-Shem (The Book of the Wars of the Lord) [Philosophy].
Riva di Trento: Jacob Marcaria, December 1560.
75 leaves (final blank lacking), title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut printer's mark on title shows the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo (Yaari, Printers' Marks 28), 4 woodcut floriated capitals, printed in 2 columns.
Folio, 290 x 190 mm. (11¾ x 7½ in.), contemporary vellum; fore-margin of title-page trimmed, few smale marginal chips to title-page, light staining and browning.
FIRST EDITION. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 20; Tamani, La Tipografia di Jacob Marcaria, Riva del Garda, 1991, 25 (title-page illustrated); Steinschneider 6138,2; Cowley 392; Zedner 431; Roest 671; On the book and its author see: Enc. Judaica, vol 11, colms 92-98 (title-page illustrated).
Riva di Trento: Jacob Marcaria, December 1560.
75 leaves (final blank lacking), title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut printer's mark on title shows the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo (Yaari, Printers' Marks 28), 4 woodcut floriated capitals, printed in 2 columns.
Folio, 290 x 190 mm. (11¾ x 7½ in.), contemporary vellum; fore-margin of title-page trimmed, few smale marginal chips to title-page, light staining and browning.
FIRST EDITION. Vinograd, Riva di Trento 20; Tamani, La Tipografia di Jacob Marcaria, Riva del Garda, 1991, 25 (title-page illustrated); Steinschneider 6138,2; Cowley 392; Zedner 431; Roest 671; On the book and its author see: Enc. Judaica, vol 11, colms 92-98 (title-page illustrated).
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Bibliotheca Merzbacheriana stamp; Adolph Lewisohn bookplate.