Horowitz, Chaim Ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 182

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Horowitz, Chaim Ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

Woodcut printer’s device on title. ff. (3), 63 (i.e. 60). Stained, stamps excised, opening leaf taped. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Jerusalem 29.

“Jerusalem” (Lemberg?): Israel Bak “1844” (1870?)

Est: $300 - $500

Although the title-page mirrors the Jerusalem edition, Shoshanna Halevy speculates the actual printing was done in Lemberg. She deduces this to be a pirated edition due to the addition of a haskamah by R. Aaron Moses of Brody and a Compiler’s Forward. See Halevy, The First Hebrew Books Printed in Jerusalem (1975), p. 15.