BRESLAU, ARYEH LEIB. Penei Aryeh [responsa]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

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

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

BRESLAU, ARYEH LEIB. Penei Aryeh [responsa]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title. Stamp of Ezekiel Lifschitz. Marginal notation signed Baruch Mordechai of Vilna ff. (3), 106. Gently damp-wrinkled, inscriptions on front free-endpaper. Later roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, upper cover starting. Sm. folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 2181

Amsterdam: The Widow & Orphans Proops 1790

Est: $700 - $1,000

Includes a Halachic question concerning financial matters relating to philanthropy (f.46) offered by Haym Salomon of Philadelphia, demonstrating the conscientious religious nature of this early American merchant and Revolutionary War patriot. “One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history.” See J.R. Marcus, Early American Jewry (1953) Vol. II pp.132-64