Bigdei Aharon [sermons]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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TE’OMIM, AARON

Bigdei Aharon [sermons]

FIRST EDITION. Fine Large Paper Copy. Title within highly wrought historiated border containing figures of Greek godesses ff.(2), 40, 21, 20,15,18. Signature on title inked out. Contemporary limp patterned boards incorporating printers galleys, rubbed and chipped. Lg. folio Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 263

Frankfurt a/Main: Johannes Kölner 1711

Est: $800 - $1,000

A Fine Wide-Margined Copy. The author was a highly regarded preacher, thus the epithet "Darshan" was added to his name. His commentary Mateh Aharon to the Passover Haggadah is particularly esteemed. In 1670, he succeded R. Shimshon Bachrach as Rabbi of Worms, where he served for seventeen years, following which, he accepted a call to the pulpit in Cracow. In 1690, R. Aaron Te’omim was murdered, hence the acrostic HY"D (Hashem Yinkom Damo) on the title