(SHa”CH). Poal Tzedek [the 613 precepts divided according to the seven days of the week]

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 169
KATZ, SHABTHAI BEN MEIR

(SHa”CH). Poal Tzedek [the 613 precepts divided according to the seven days of the week]

Second edition. Historiated title-page. Printer’s device on f. 3v. ff. (28). Ex-library, some worming especially on final leaves. Contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed. 12mo Vinograd, Prague 813

Prague: Grand-children of Judah Bak 1722

Est: $700 - $900
With material not printed in later editions; e.g. a poem with the author’s name in acrostics and a “kethav eiduth” by the Sha"ch’s grandson, Yitzchak b. Moshe, attesting that the family is a direct descendent of Saul Wahl, the legendary Polish “King for a Day.”