EMDEN, JACOB.

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 161

EMDEN, JACOB.

Lechem Shamayim [commentary to the Mishnah]. Part I. Woodcut diagram of the position of the Temple furniture. ff.(1), 122 (i.e. 121). With marginal notations by R. Tzvi Hirsch Berlin. [Vinograd, Wandsbeck 18]. Wandsbeck, Israel ben Abraham, 1720. * Lechem Shamayim. Part II. Printed without a title page. ff. 104,36. [Vinograd, Altona 87; JNUL copy incomplete]. Altona, By the Author, 1768 Dampstained, second part foxed in places, institutional stamps, split. Later gilt-ruled morocco, gilt-titled on upper cover and spine, gently rubbed at edges. Folio

v.p.: v.d.

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $6,500

Tzvi Hirsch Berlin (b.1721), former Rabbi of London’s Great and Hambro synagogues (where he was known as Hart Lyon), rose in rabbinic eminence to occupy the position of Chief Rabbi of Berlin and provinces (“Oberlandisrabbiner”) from 1773 until his death in 1800. He was the nephew of Jacob Emden. He authored a surprisingly critical commentary to his eminent uncle’s explication on the Ethics of the Fathers in the latters’ Lechem Shamayim issued in Berlin in 1834