<<(Chid’a).>> Avodath HaKodesh [kabbalistic prayers, supplications, etc.]

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

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AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID

<<(Chid’a).>> Avodath HaKodesh [kabbalistic prayers, supplications, etc.]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> The London Beth Din copy. ff. (4), 111. Clean tear on ff. 3. Foxed and stained in places. Modern calf-backed boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Jerusalem 1-9; Halevy, Jerusalem 1.

Jerusalem: Israel Bak 1841

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

<<The First Book Printed in Jerusalem.>> A collection of seven small treatises on Halachah, Minhag and Nusscha’oth of Prayer. R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai (1724-1806) was a Jerusalem-born scholar who served as an emissary to Europe on behalf of the communities of the Land of Israel. Prevented from returning to Eretz Israel, he spent the last 28 years of his life in Livorno printing his scholarly and historical works.