Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Lot 109

EMDEN, JACOB

Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one (each with individual title page). Illustration of the Land of Israel on verso of f. 97 (vol. II) ff. (1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. ff. 90, 90, 92-95, 97-99. Browned and stained in places, final two leaves inserted from another shorter copy, previous owner's stamps. Later half-calf. Folio Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael no. 5-i (illustrated)

Altona: By the Author 1761-68

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Emden alludes to many personal details of his life at the end of the introduction and on f. 102. of Vol. I where he also relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work. An appendix of two leaves includes a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman, Rabbi of the Hambro Congregation of London and a poem written by Emden in praise of his son with the acrostics "Meshulam and Yaavetz."