Zivchei Cohen [laws of ritual slaughter].
AUCTION 54 |
Wednesday, March 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 105
COEN, ISAAC.
Zivchei Cohen [laws of ritual slaughter].
Livorno: E.M. Ottolenghi 1832
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,600
Anatomical plates relating to slaughter, inspecting and porging. This copy with additional plates unrecorded by bibliographers. Roest (p. 280) records only five plates; Friedberg (Z-46) only seven.
On p. 7 we find mention of a father and son, R. Shabtai Morais and R. Samuel Morais. These were the grandfather and father of R. Sabato Morais (b. Livorno, 1823-d. Philadelphia, 1897), who went on to serve as Hazan of Cong. Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia (from 1851 until his death) and whom, along with others, founded the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (1886). See JE, Vol. VIII, pp. 679-80.