Sepher HaZohar [the mystical “Book of Splendor]. Four parts complete in three volumes. * Bound with: David Luria. Kadmuth Sepher HaZohar (at end of vol. II).

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

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Lot 268
SHIMON B”R YOCHAI.

Sepher HaZohar [the mystical “Book of Splendor]. Four parts complete in three volumes. * Bound with: David Luria. Kadmuth Sepher HaZohar (at end of vol. II).

<<The copy of Rabbi Sheftel Kramer and his son-in-law Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman>> . With Rabbi Ruderman’s signature on the front flyleaf of Vol. I and Rabbi Kramer’s signature on the rear of vol. III. Slight marginal worming. Contemporary calf, worn. Large 8vo. Unrecorded by Vinograd; cf Scholem, Bibliographica Kabbalistica no. 40.

(Koenigsburg: 1816)

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $850
Rabbi Sheftel Kramer was Rabbi Ruderman’s father-in-law and a brother-in-law of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He was a Dean of the Yeshiva of New Haven, founded by Rabbi Yehudah Heschel Levenberg.