Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Eilim Letruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 3
(ALEPPO).
Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Eilim Letruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]
Aleppo: Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson 1866
Est: $800 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $800
The first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses