Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici. Second edition. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic

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Lot 413

(LAND OF ISRAEL)

Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici. Second edition. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic

Four engraved plates (three double-page), one depicting Jewish tombs and monuments Foxed. Later vellum. 12mo Tobler 71; Freimann, 195

Heidelberg: Samuel Broun 1662

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $250

A translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575 - no copy extant), a description of the graves of the righteous and holy places of Eretz Israel. It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazi Community of Safed. See A. Yaari, SHeluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) pp.80 and 248