Amaroth Tehoroth...al Sepher Tehilim [Psalms with commentary of R. Eliezer Halevi Ish Horowitz of Tarnograd].

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

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Lot 141

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Amaroth Tehoroth...al Sepher Tehilim [Psalms with commentary of R. Eliezer Halevi Ish Horowitz of Tarnograd].

FIRST EDITION ff. (2), 67, 59. Previous owners' marks, stained, strip removed from extreme lower margin of f.2. Recent boards. Large 4to Vinograd, Warsaw 167

Warsaw: D.L. Sklower 1838

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

R. Eliezer Halevi Horowitz of Tarnogrod (1740-1806) is most famous today for his Chassidic work No’am Megadim. He was a disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Elimelech of Lizhensk. See S.H. Porush, Entziklopedia la-Chasiduth, Vol. I (1980), cols. 309-315; Tz.M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), p.219