Auction 88 - Part II - Unique Items and Early Printed Books

Complete Set of Tur with Beit Yosef – First Editions of Beit Yosef, Printed in the Lifetime of the Author Rabbi Yosef Karo – Orach Chaim – Venice, 1550 / Yoreh De'ah – Venice, 1551 / Even HaEzer – Sabbioneta, 1553 – Choshen Mishpat – Sabbioneta, 1559

Opening: $40,000
Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000
Sold for: $93,750
Including buyer's premium

Tur with Beit Yosef, four parts in four volumes: Orach Chaim, Yoreh De'ah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat – first editions of Beit Yosef, printed in the lifetime of the author R. Yosef Karo:
Tur Orach Chaim, with Beit Yosef. Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1550.
Ownership inscriptions on title page and on final leave.
Endpaper (original?) enclosed, with inscription from 1767.
Censors' signatures (including signature of Dominico Irosolimitano).
24, 459, [1] leaves. 34.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains (several leaves with many stains). Wear. Large marginal open tears to title page (slightly affecting border), and open tears to several other leaves, repaired with paper. Minor worming, slightly affecting text. Two index leaves at beginning of book with smaller margins (remargined for conformity; leaves possibly supplied from a different copy). New leather binding.
Tur Yoreh De'ah, with Beit Yosef. Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1551.
Inscription on title page. Several glosses in Italian script. Many late penciled glosses and markings. Censorship deletions. Censor's signatures on final leaf.
[30], 398 leaves. 33.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains (dark stains to final leaves). Worming to several leaves, slightly affecting text. Minor worming to title page, not affecting text (with paper repairs on verso). Minor abrasions. Censorship deletions (entire lines deleted on several leaves of tractate Avoda Zara). New leather binding.
Tur Even HaEzer, with Beit Yosef. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1553.
Colophon on p. 232b: "The third Tur was completed… Friday, 4th Tammuz 1553, by… Cornelio Adelkind… in the press of R. Tobias Foa…".
232 leaves. 33.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness (with minor mold stains). Minor wear and marginal tears to title page and other leaves at beginning and end, repaired with paper. Minor marginal worming to some leaves, not affecting text. New leather binding (different from rest of set).
The copies of this edition vary in the typography of leaf 74. The present copy comprises 57 lines on both recto and verso. (see: I. Sonne, Kiryat Sefer, VII, 1930, p. 484, no. 4).
Tur Choshen Mishpat, with Beit Yosef. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1559.
Ownership inscriptions on both sides of title page (some faded).
Brief glosses in several places.
332 leaves. 38 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and large, dark stains. Minor worming to title page and other leaves, slightly affecting text in some places. Tears to several leaves, with some damage to text, repaired with paper. Minor defects to title page. Marginal paper repairs to several leaves. New leather binding.


PLEASE NOTE: Item descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.


Unique Items and Early Printed Books
Unique Items and Early Printed Books