Samuel Tissot. Refu’oth Ha’am [medical compendium]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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(TE’OMIM, BARUCH FRAENKEL OF LEIPNIK)

Samuel Tissot. Refu’oth Ha’am [medical compendium]

Hebrew translation by Menachem Mendel Levin of Satanow. <<THE R. BARUCH FRANKEL TEUMIM OF LEIPNIK COPY>> with an inscription in German on the final flyleaf “ Dieses buch gehert… Baroch Frankel Oberrabi[ner] an Leipnik.” Amidst various inscriptions on the title-page is the Hebrew signature: “Harav… Frankel Teumim.” With various dense inscriptions on endpapers, including signature of Moshe Politz (1814) and marginal notes and corrections in various Ashkenazi hands, plus a handwritten medical recipe on first back flyleaf. ff. (140). Worn. Modern boards. 8vo.

Zolkiew: M. Rubinstein 1794

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

Father-in-law of the famed Chassidic Rebbe R. Chaim Sanzer, R. Baruch Frankel Teumim (1760-1828) author of Baruch Ta’am, was one of the most renowned Talmudic scholars of his generation. It is noteworthy he owned this type of medical book and may even have written marginal notes on it.