Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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JAFFE, MORDECHAI

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Four parts in two volumes. Divisional title pages. Part I: Orach Chaim: Levush Hatechleth Vehachur. ff. 201, (2). Opening two leaves crudely laid down. * Part II: Yoreh De’ah: Levush Atereth Zahav. ff. 148, (2). Final leaves unattractively repaired with loss. * Part III: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman. ff. 87. * Part IV: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan. ff. 162, (2). Leaves 81-8 in a beautiful precise hand alongide the printed pages later inserted from a slightly shorter copy Browned and dampstained. Later morocco, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Venice 1122-25

Venice: Giovanni Caleoni 1620

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

Previous owners’ signatures and stamps on title include “Pinchos Menachem of Gur” (i.e. R. Pinchos of Piltz), Author of Sifthei Tzadik, along with the stamp of his son, Chanoch-Henach Gad Yustman, Rabbi of Wilohn. R. Pinchos’s maternal grandfather was Yitzchak Meir Alter, the Grand Rabbi of Gur - “The Chidushei Ha-Rim.” He later became the brother-in-law of R. Judah Aryeh Leib Alter of Gur - “The Sfath Emeth.”