Toldoth Ya’akov [exposition of various Biblical and Talmudic passages]

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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(ANGLO-JUDAICA). EISENSTADT, JACOB BEN ELIEZER.

Toldoth Ya’akov [exposition of various Biblical and Talmudic passages]

FIRST EDITION. ff.(3),65, good margins though lightly browned, recent cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo Roth, London 19; Vinograd, London 59 (both with erroneous pagination)

London : for W. Tooke 1770

Est: $150 - $200

PRICE REALIZED $130

This work was “the first Hebrew book printed for a Jew in England, by Isaac b. Jedidiah Halevi, Moses b. Gerson and Jacob b. Issachar Cohen, who had secured typesetters from Holland and occupied a shop in the house of W. Tooke, an Englishman.” JE, V 83.