Levush Ha’Orah [elucidations and novellea to Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash].

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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JAFFE, MORDECHAI.

Levush Ha’Orah [elucidations and novellea to Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Printer’s device on verso of title. <<Map Of The Land Of Israel>> on f. 84v. Text-illustration of a palm of a hand on f.(5)v of the final gathering. With the rare supplement: U’Mordechai Yatza BeLevush Malchuth.” ff. 91, (9). Stained, opening couple leaves repaired, supplemental leaves with some paper repairs affecting few words supplied in facsimile. Modern blind-tooled calf. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Prague 123.

Prague: Abraham ben Moses Sedil 1603

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

<<With a important woodcut map of the Land of Israel and surrounding nations, charting the travels of the Children of Israel.>> Decorative and clearly defined, the map depicts ships riding the seas with cities delineated by towers adorned with flags - an altogether sophisticated representation. The details of the map were entirely based on information derived from the Bible and its commentaries, for, as E. & G. Wajntraub point out in their “Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land” (1992) p. 41 “it was not possible to draw eye-witness reports, and all geographical data is based [only] on the geographical knowledge of the Bible.”