Hagahoth Rabeinu Akiva Eger al Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah.

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/471

Next Lot>

Lot 85

EGER, AKIVA.

Hagahoth Rabeinu Akiva Eger al Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah.

<<First Edition.>> ff. (2), 8, 66. Browned, previous owners marks, tape repair on a few leaves. Later boards. 4to. Vinograd, Berlin 768.

Berlin: J. Zittenfeld 1862

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $250

The publisher was R. Akiva Eger’s grandson, Abraham Moshe Bleichrode. Includes a biography of the author. Opening leaves contain an announcement from R. Akiva Eger dated 1836 banning alcohol made from potatoes for Passover as the manufacturer had surreptitiously mixed Chametz into the process.