Sepher Chakirath Halev [moral code]

AUCTION 8 | Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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WETZLAR, SOLOMON ZALMAN

Sepher Chakirath Halev [moral code]

FIRST EDITION. Text in Yiddish only, printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Title within a typographical border ff. (2), 48, 46-53, 53-74. Browned and stained in places, trimmed. Later calf-backed boards. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 1464

Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1737

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $350

Embellished with fables and parables, the work, according to Zinberg (p. 352-53) has “a definite social-ethnographic interest.” Upon publication however, Wetzlar’s morality book met with limited success in the face of a stronger desire for Yiddish works of a more esoteric and mystical nature