Neviim Acharonim with Abarbanel – Pesaro, 1520 – Printed by Gershom Soncino – Early Wooden Binding

Neviim Acharonim with Abarbanel – Pesaro, 1520 – Printed by Gershom Soncino – Early Wooden Binding

Neviim Acharonim, with the commentary of R. Yitzchak Abarbanel. [Pesaro: Gershom Soncino], 1520. First edition.
Title within a woodcut ornamented border. In some copies, the verso of the title page is blank; in this copy it features a long, 52-stanza poem composed by the author's son, in praise of his father's commentary.
This edition was printed around 12 years after the passing of the author, R. Yitzchak Abarbanel. At the end of his commentary to the book of Yeshaya, the author writes that "the beginning of this commentary was written in the island of Corfu on Rosh Chodesh Av 1495, and since this work was postponed in deference to other compositions, I completed it in Monopoli in the region of Apulia… on Rosh Chodesh Elul [1498]…".
Gershom Soncino, a leading Italian Hebrew printer, also printed Abarbanel's commentary to Neviim Rishonim, in Pesaro 1511 (see previous item).
[397] leaves. Without final blank leaf. 30.5 cm. Overall good condition. Several leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wax stains and dark stains to several leaves. Large open tears and worming to title page, with significant damage to engraved border and text on verso, repaired with paper (border completed in photocopy). Tears to several leaves, affecting text, without loss. Worming, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper. Stamps of the NLI (with "removed from library" stamps). Handwritten inscriptions. Early wood and leather binding, repaired (with new leather clasps; spine and corners restored; new endpapers).

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