Sepher Eliah Mizrachi al HaTorah

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 232

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Sepher Eliah Mizrachi al HaTorah

Copy formerly in the posession of THE REBBES OF GER: R. ARYEH LEIB ALTER (THE SEFATH EMETH) AND HIS SON, R. ABRAHAM MORDECAI ALTER, (tHE IMREI EMETH) Worn. Title page loose and encased in plastic. Contemporary boards, rubbed. Folio

Fürth: Itzik b. Leib 1763

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

The copy of the Sefath Emeth with his signature on the titlepage “HaK[atan] Aryeh Leib.” His eldest son, the future Gerer Rebbe, already a dedicated bibliophle, also signs his name “HaChathan Abraham Mordecai Alter, the son of the Rabbi...” and writes that he purchased the book from his father. Also contains the stamp of M.Ch. Kaminer of Kielce, who was related to the father-in-law of the Sefath Emeth, R. Yudel Kaminer