Ki MeTzion Teitzeh Torah [on the importance of the Holy Land].

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

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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FERRARA (PERIERA), AARON RAPHAEL.

Ki MeTzion Teitzeh Torah [on the importance of the Holy Land].

<<First Edition.>> With illustrations of the tombs of the Prophet Samuel at Nebi Samwil and Mama Rachel at Bethlehem. Final page shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Temple Mount and the newly built Tiferet Yisrael synagogue. Additional page featuring an illustrated Mizrach. ff. (2), 32, (12). Ex-library. Contemporary boards (with owner’s name tooled in gilt) and with original pink pictorial wrappers bound in. 4to. Halevy 192.

Jerusalem: Isaac Guszini 1873

Est: $700 - $1,000

This work is intended to ‘increase love for Jerusalem, for one’s fellow Jew and for the holy Torah’. A treatise on the uniqueness of these three elements and their interconnectedness. Contains a supplement by R. Akiva Eger Schlesinger and a poem in honor of R. Shalom Sharabi.