Sepher Tehillim. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner S.R. Hirsch.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

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HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

Sepher Tehillim. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner S.R. Hirsch.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two title pages. Hebrew and German on facing page. pp. ix, 381, (1), 367, (1). Previous owners’ marks. Modern elaborate blind-tooled chestnut calf. 4to.

Frankfurt a/Main: J. Kaufmann 1882

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $900

This extensive translation and commentary to the book of Psalms is one of Hirsch’s most important accomplishments. “This work may be seen as a summary of a fruitful life of scholarship…Rabbi Hirsch felt a special affinity for the book of Psalms.” See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p. 334-35.