Chozeh Tzion [commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]

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 316

RICCI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL HAI

Chozeh Tzion [commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 115) ff. 138, (2). Dampstained in places, last leaf loose. Recent boards, covers detatched. Folio Vinograd, Livorno 34

Livorno: Abraham ben Raphael Ricci for Abraham Meldola 1742

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

The author’s son, Abraham Samuel Ricci, includes a biography of his father’s life as an appendix to this work. He describes his father’s journey to Italy and his murder on the road between Modena and Bologna, a fact dreamt by Raphael Ricchi in Jerusalem in 1740. On Ricci’s suspected Sabbathian sympathies see, B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) pp.53-7