ISRAEL BEN SHABTHAI , the Maggid OF KOZHNITZ. Or Yisrael [exposition to the mystical Tikunei HaZohar]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

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

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ISRAEL BEN SHABTHAI , the Maggid OF KOZHNITZ. Or Yisrael [exposition to the mystical Tikunei HaZohar]

FIRST EDITION. Additional title within typographic border. With an approbation by R. Abraham Jacob of Sadigura ff. 3, 57. Previous owners' marks, washed, few stains. Modern calf. 4to Vinograd, Czernowitz 201

Czernowitz: J. Echardt 1862

Est: $400 - $600

The “Maggid of Kozhnitz” (1733-1814), was one of the original disseminators of the thoughts of the Ba’al Shem Tov in Congress Poland. See Y. Alfasi, HaChassiduth (1977) p. 101