Shlom Esther [commentary on the Scroll of Esther]

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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Lot 38

(TREVES), ISAAC BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON

Shlom Esther [commentary on the Scroll of Esther]

FIRST EDITION. THE RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGURA COPY, with his alternating stamp on titles and book-label on front pastedown ff. (32). Dampstained, signed by censors on verso and recto of final leaf. Later gilt-tooled black morocco, gently rubbed at extremities, shaken. 12mo Vinograd, Const. 254; Yaari, Const. 225; Mehlman 663; not in Adams

Constantinople: (Solomon & Joseph Yavetz c. 1575)

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,500

Isaac Treves was a respected member of the Venice Beth Din, author of Mashbith Milchamoth concerning the controversy in connection with the mikvah in Rovigo; Likutei Shoshanim containing his commentary to the Book of Malachi as well as other works. He resided for many years in Safed and was a disciple of Moses Alsheich. For more than thirty years he acted as proof-reader for various printing-houses in Venice and worked especially closely with those scholars who stemmed from Safed. The wide connections of the extended Treves Family allowed him to travel broadly, hence in the present work he states he gathered commentaries from rabbinic manuscripts from loacales in France and Castile. See the exchange of articles concerning Isaac Treves between I. Sonne and D. Tamar in Kiryath Sepher, vol. XXXIII (1958) pp.377-8 and vol. XXXIV (1959) p. 136