Eiduth BeYa'akov [responsa]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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BOTON, JACOB BEN ABRAHAM, DE

Eiduth BeYa'akov [responsa]

On title, Sephardic monogram signatures of former owners. On f. 1r. stamp of Raphael Meir Panigel (see below) ff. 273. Wanting final leaf (blank?). ff. 202 and 204 duplicated, lacking ff. 201 and 203. Trimmed and browned, few small taped repirs with minimal loss. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Salonika 220

Salonika: Abraham b. David Nachman & Yom Tov Becher Moshe Confilias 1720

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

A native of Bulgaria, Raphael Meir Panigel (1804-1893) served in the last decades of the 19th-century as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. During a long and illustrious career, Panigel acted as emissary of Hebron to Italy, and was received at the Vatican by Pope Gregory XVI. See Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Israel, pp. 691-2, 739; EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 56-57.