Joseph Kohn. Ma’amar Yeshu’oth Malki

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Joseph Kohn. Ma’amar Yeshu’oth Malki

Hebrew and German title-pages ff. [7], 11, [1]. Uncut. Unbound. 8vo Vinograd, Lemberg, 1159

Lemberg: M. J. Poremba 1853

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

This pamphlet contains a poem and an essay extolling Emporer Franz Joseph I of Austria. Kohn published it to celebrate the Emperor’s twenty-third birthday. Joseph Kohn (1827-1903), a prolific author and a pioneer of the Hebrew press in Galicia, later settled in London