Yehoshua Feivel ben Israel, Kitzvei Eretz [on the boundaries of the Land of Israel]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 179
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Yehoshua Feivel ben Israel, Kitzvei Eretz [on the boundaries of the Land of Israel]

<<WITH UNUSUAL FOLD OUT MAP>> by Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Saini. ff. 16 (plus fold out map). Slight worming in places, few stains. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Grodno 113.

Horadna (Grodno): Simcha Zimel 1813

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,200
<<RARE.>> The fold out map shows the borders according to the tribes with many extra geographical details including names of cities and explanations. The title and introduction state that the first edition contained many errors, especially in the map. The publisher Yaakov ben Yitzchak of Horadna (Grodno), is proud that this corrected edition contains a completely new map composed by his brother, a great Rabbinical scholar (as attested to in the approbations), who died at an early age. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp. 127-28.