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

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 129

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 - on a shorter leaf). See E.& G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 82-3, w.33 Vol. I: ff.(1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. Title and f.1 laid to size. Browned throughout. Old tape repairs on ff.102-103, some minor loss of text. * Vol. II: ff. 90, 90-95, 97-99 (ff. 76-77 duplicated). Title and ff. 2-4 tape-repaired and silked, some minor loss of text. Browned throughout. Old tape-repairs to map, mostly intact. Vol. I contemporary calf, rebacked. Vol. II contemporary marbled boards. Folio Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Y. Raphael, "Emden," Aresheth III, no. 5-1 (illustrated)

Altona: By the Author 1761-68

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

This copy with an appendix of two-leaves at conclusion of Vol. II (including a responsum on Sha'atnez 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.