ABRAHAM DOV BAER (AUERBACH) OF OVRUCH. Bath Ayin [Chassidic homilies to the Pentateuch and Festivals]

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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ABRAHAM DOV BAER (AUERBACH) OF OVRUCH. Bath Ayin [Chassidic homilies to the Pentateuch and Festivals]

FIRST EDITION. Title with printer’s device (Yaari no. 201) depicting the Old City of Jerusalem. Final two pages with interesting list of pre-publication subscribers to the work, both men and women, all residents of the Holy Land. ff.(2),125,(1). Light stains in places, trace marginal worming. Contemporary blind-tooled brown morocco boards, rubbed at extremities. 4to Vinograd, Jerusalem 59; Halevy 38

Jerusalem: Israel Bak 1847

Est: $1,000 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

The First Chassidic Text Printed in Jerusalem. A greatly venerated work, replete with lyrical hymns in praise of the Holy Land and the spiritual heights attainable upon residing there. The Author (1765-1841), was a colleague of both R. Zushye of Annapoli and R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, and was a disciple of R. Nachum of Chernobyl. In 1830 he migrated to Safed where in time he was regarded as the spiritual leader of all the Chassidim resident in the Holy Land. See T.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopaedia of Hasidism (1998) p.5.