[SEFER NASHIM. ENGLISH] THE BOOK OF WOMEN / TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW BY ISAAC KLEIN. by Maimonides, Moses Tr. Klein, Isaac - 1972

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. one of the Yale Judaica Series, Volume XIX; translated from the Hebrew by Isaac Klein; Leon Nemoy, editor; Saul Lieberman and Harry A. Wolfson, associate editors. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, bright gilt titles on book spine From jacket: The Book of Women...consists of five treatises dealing with the laws on marriage, divorce, levirate marriage and the virgin maiden, and the wayward women. Many of these regulations are roughly comparable to modern family law. In compiling the treatises, Maimonides augmented the basic stipulations of the Talmud with subsequent legal developments and included laws that had long been inoperative..." Jacket has edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine, a half inch tear to top front of jacket. Heel of spine is bumped underneath jacket; there is a small tacky area on fep where sticker was removed. We noted small, light, penciled check marks in the margins on at least 20 pages. . Cloth.… Read More