Derech Chaim [on Hebrew language, unusual words and word-games]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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Lot 274

LOWENSTAMM, CHAIM BEN ARYEH LEIB

Derech Chaim [on Hebrew language, unusual words and word-games]

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one volume. Opening title within typographic border. Divisional titles ff.3,(1),123,(2),10,17,44;(12). Few light stains in places. Contemporary crimson gilt-tooled morocco, gilt-extras, a.e.g. spine gilt-tooled with Hebrew title and inscription “Souvenir van L. I. Lowenstam a an H. S. Van Aalten”, gently rubbed at extremities. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Dessau 66

Dessau: M. Philippsohn 1812

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

ELEGANT PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by the Author’s son, Aryeh Leib Lowenstamm of Rotterdam, as a Bar Mitzva gift to his student Chaim van Aalten. Appended to this unique copy are twelve unnumbered leaves, with autograph manuscript Hebrew inscription and dedicatory 60-stanza poem featuring the acrostic: “Aryeh Leib ben Ha’rav Ha’gaon MHR”R Chaim Ish Lowenstamm Ba’al Ha’mechaber Sepher Derech Chaim ZT”L.” Author was the son of Aryeh Leib ben Chaim Breslau, author of the volume of responsa Penei Aryeh (Amsterdam, 1790) The family thereafter adopted the name Lowenstamm (“descendant of the lion”) a reference to the patriach’s name, Aryeh Leib. See EJ, IV cols.1356-7. See also Lot 435