Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

AUCTION 3 | Tuesday, November 25th, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Printed Books Duplicates from the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT.

Sepher Ha’agudah [Halachic compendium based upon Talmudic decisions]

FIRST EDITION. Title within elaborate architectural arch. The Mayer Sulzberger copy ff. 4, 250. Signed by censors at end, censored passages replaced in an early hand. Browned, wormed in places. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with various historiated rolls including central depiction of King David in prayer on upper cover, lacks clasps, rebacked. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 32; not in Adams

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1571

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $900

Published from a somewhat unreliable manuscript with corrections supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of Moses Isserles)