Yosef Da’ath [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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JOSEPH BEN ISSACHAR.

Yosef Da’ath [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Title within typographical border. <<Map of the Land of Israel >> together with other woodcut plates and text-illustrations striving to clarify errors in Rashi’s commentary by using an early manuscript text ff.1-60, 65-152. Browned and stained, crude paper repairs, some worming, previous owners marks. Later marbled boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Prague 168.

Prague: Gershom ben Bezalel Katz 1609

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

This important map of the Land of Israel is based on Mordechai Jaffe’s earlier effort that appeared in his Levushim (1590-1604). R. Joseph’s map however is more clearly defined, the mountains are easily visible and the cities are shown by towers and decorated with flags - an altogether sophisticated representation. See Z. Vilnay, Hamapah Ha’ivrit shel Eretz Yisrael (1968) p. 15 (illustrated)