Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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PARDO, JOSEPH

Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers device (cf. Ya’ari’s Printers Marks no.66). Five page dedication in Spanish to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London. Approbations by members of the Rabbinate of Amsterdam ff. (10), 96. Lightly stained in places, some worming repaired, affecting a few letters. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco, with hinges and clasps. 16mo Vinograd, Amsterdam 534; Fuks, Amsterdam 362

Amsterdam: Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi 1686

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
In his introduction, David Pardo explains that he found the text of the work among the manuscripts of his deceased father. Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, London, a post to which his son succeeded him. According to A. Hyamson: “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola.“ (See: The Sephardim of England (1951) pp. 78-9)