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

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 193

RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL HAI.

Chazah 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). Some brownng otherwse a fine, crisp copy. Recent calf-backed marbled boards. Folio Vinograd, Livorno 34

Livorno: Abraham ben Raphael Ricchi for Abraham Meldola 1742

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $700

The author’s son, Abraham Samuel Ricchi, 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. In the dream he was told that he was a reincarnation of the Tana R. Yehudah Ben Baba who was killed by the Romans and was one of the “Asarah ha-rugei malchuth.”