HADASSI, JUDAH. Eshkol HaKopher

AUCTION 41 | Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 171

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HADASSI, JUDAH. Eshkol HaKopher

FIRST EDITION. Inscribed and signed by the leading Karaite scholar Abraham Firkowitz to David HaNasi, dated 1862, Egypt. An uncut copy ff. 2,155. Title with marginal repairs, few stains and some trace worming. Ex-library. Contemporary boards, variously worn. Folio Vinograd, Goslow 15

Goslow (Eupatoria): M. Tirishkin 1836

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $850

Written in rhymed prose, the work embodies science, philosophy, legends, folklore, anti-Christian and anti-Rabbinic polemics as well as an analytic exposition of the precepts. This “encyclopedia of Karaite lore and polemics is perhaps the most widely quoted manual of Karaite ways and beliefs. It was long acclaimed as an inexhaustible treasury of early texts...and as the definitive record of spiritual achievement by four centuries of Karaite endeavor.” Zvi Ankori, Karaites In Byzantium (1959) p.28