HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chivath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

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

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Lot 155

(LAND OF ISRAEL)

HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chivath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

FIRST EDITION. Woodcut printer’s device on title (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 201) ff. (2), 60. Title loose. Minor stains. Contemporary boards, distressed. Sm.4to Vinograd, Jerusalem 29; Halevi 23

Jerusalem: Israel Bak 1844

Est: $600 - $800

Chivath Yerushalayim is a Jewish traveler’s guide to the Holy Land. The author does not restrict himself to the present state of the sites he discusses but scours the entire corpus of rabbinic literature, as well as earlier reports by Jewish travelers. This is one of the first Hebrew books published in Jerusalem (the earliest being 1841) printed by Israel Bak on the new press sent to him from London by Sir Moses Montefiore