Isserles, Moses (ReM”A). Darkei Moshe [on Tur Yoreh Deah]. With commentary Orach Mishor by Yochanan Kremnitzer.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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(SCHWARTZ, JOSEPH HACOHEN).

Isserles, Moses (ReM”A). Darkei Moshe [on Tur Yoreh Deah]. With commentary Orach Mishor by Yochanan Kremnitzer.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Extensive autograph marginal notes and a lengthy inscription on the front flyleaf and title page by R. Joseph HaCohen Schwartz. And with signature of Wolf HaLevi Boskowitz on title (author of Seder LeMishnah on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah). ff. (1),105 (of 109). Fore-edges worn, stained. Modern boards, housed in a modern fitted calf box. Folio.

Sulzbach: M. Bloch 1692

Est: $800 - $1,200

Editor of the Torah journal Vayelaket Yoseph, Rabbi Joseph HaCohen Schwartz (1875-1944) was one of the most prominent pre-war Hungarian rabbinic scholars. Among his works are Ginzei Yoseph, Hadrath Kodesh, VaYitzbor Yoseph, Zikaron LeMoshe, Moed Ko Chai, and many other monographs and biographies. His notes to the present work exhibit exceptional erudition and a wide breadth of knowledge with a particular focus in areas of history and bibliography.