Lev Tov [ethical conduct, with laws and customs]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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

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ISAAC BEN ELIAKIM OF POSEN.

Lev Tov [ethical conduct, with laws and customs]

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. The M. Zagajski copy with his bookplate. ff. 79. Stained, few paper repairs. Modern marbled boards. 4to. Vinograd, Dyhernfurth 421.

Dyhernfurth: J. May 1808

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $300

Devotional guide for daily life interwoven with laws, customs, tales and parables. First published in Prague in 1620, it soon became one of the most popular Yiddish books of morality especially among women. Gluckel of Hamelin is recorded as instructing her children about the work “in it you will find everything.” See Zinberg, History of Jewish Literature, Vol. 7, pp. 159-64.