Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah Portions]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 143

HALEVI, TOBIAS BEN ABRAHAM

Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah Portions]

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. ff. 314. Stained in places. Contemporary blind-tooled chestnut morocco, rebacked, rubbed at edges. Folio Vinograd, Venice 986; Habermann, di Gara 232

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1605

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $500

The author hailed from Safed and frequently cites his mentor R. Solomon Sagis as well as other great scholars of Safed. His fellow student, Joseph di Trani quotes Halevi’s work in Tzophnath Pane’ach (see Lot 260) and refers to him as his “colleague in Torah and Mitzvoth”