Chazah Tzion [kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 248
RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI.

Chazah Tzion [kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 115) ff. 138, (2). Some staining. Contemporary boards, rubbed, spine chipped. Folio Vinograd, Livorno 34

Livorno: Abraham Ricchi for Abraham Meldola 1742

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $800
The author’s son, Abraham Samuel Ricchi, includes a biography of his father’s life as an appendix to this work. He describes his father’s journey to Italy and his murder on the road between Modena and Bologna, a fact dreamt by Raphael Ricchi in Jerusalem in which he visioned he was a reincarnation of the Tana R. Yehudah Ben Baba who was killed by the Romans and was one of the “Asarah HaRugei Malchuth.”