Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 98

EMDEN, JACOB

Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one (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 ff.(1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. ff. 90-95, 97-99, lacking f. 3 of Vol. II. Marginal note on f. 4a of Vol. II. Browned and stained in places, previous owner's signature on title and f. 36 of Vol II. Later boards, rubbed and chpped. Folio Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael no. 5-i (illustrated)

Altona: By the Author 1761-68

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Emden alludes to many personal details of his life at the end of the introduction and on f. 102. of Vol. I where he also relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work. Rarely found, this copy contains an appendix of 2ff. Including a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman, Rabbi of the Hambro Congregation of London, and a poem written by Emden in praise of his son with the acrostics "Meshulam and Yaavetz"