Mor u-Ketzi’ah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

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Lot 91

EMDEN, JACOB

Mor u-Ketzi’ah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in two volumes (each with individual title page). Illustration of the Land of Israel on verso of f.97 (vol. II). See E.& G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 82-3, w.33 Vol. I: ff.(1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. * Vol. II: ff. 90, 90-95, 97-99. Browned and stained in places, slight repair to first leaf of Part I and f. 3 of Part II. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael 5-i (illustrated)

Altona: By the Author 1761-68

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,750

This copy with an appendix of 2 leaves (including a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman of London) rarely found in other copies. At the conclusion of Vol. I (f. 102r.) the author relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work. Previous owners’ stamps on flyleaf and title-pages including: Rabbi Joseph Breuer, Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, R. Shimshon Aaron Polonsky (author of Divrei Aaron), Abraham Chaim Wagner and others