Sepher Sephath Emeth ke-Minhag K”K Sephardim…im ketzath kavanoth…Ha-Ar”i [prayers]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Sepher Sephath Emeth ke-Minhag K”K Sephardim…im ketzath kavanoth…Ha-Ar”i [prayers]

According to Sephardic Rite with Lurianic Devotions]. With the encomia of Sephardic Rabbi, Nissim Zerachyah Azulai (grandson of R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai and Aschkenazic Rabbi, Israel of Shklov, disciple of the Vilna Gaon ff. 20, 208. Lacking ff. 18-19; 1, 21-25 supplied in facsimile. f.20 misbound between ff.4-5, title and first several leaves slightly wormed, stained. Contemporary calf. 12mo Vinograd, Safed 7; Ya’ari, Safed 7

Safed: Israel ben Abraham Bak 1832

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

The first prayer-book printed in Safed, the “City of Kabbalists,” and the first Hebrew book printed there after an interval of almost two and a half centuries. The earliest production from this printer’s press