of Sighet. Derech Emunah [commentary to Pentateuch and Festivals]

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 203

STERN, MENACHEM MENDEL.

of Sighet. Derech Emunah [commentary to Pentateuch and Festivals]

FIRST EDITION. Three volumes bound in two. Previous owners' marks including Yisrael Yaakov Yokel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Berbesht. The final flyleaf of the second volume contains a handwritten note signed by Menachem Mendel Margoliouth explaining a verse based upon a commentary of the Chatham Sofer ff. (4), 52; ff.(1), 49 (of 50, lacking final leaf); ff. 124. Variously stained. Contemporary boards. 4to Vinograd, Czernowitz 139, 158 and 187

Czernowitz: Eckhardt 1856, 1857 and 1860

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $350

Scarce. See I. J. Cohen, Hebrew Printing in Czernowitz, Aresheth vol. III no. 116, who was unable to locate the third part of this work, relying instead on Ben Menachem (Misifruth Yisrael Be’Ungariah p. 92)