Kiseh Rachamim [commentary to Tractates Kallah, Soferim and Avoth DeRabbi Nathan]

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00

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AZULAI, CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID.

Kiseh Rachamim [commentary to Tractates Kallah, Soferim and Avoth DeRabbi Nathan]

<<First edition. THE CHID’A COPY With his signature>> on title-page, along with Samuel Conquy (Conki). Scholarly marginalia throughout mostly in the hand of Samuel Conki, often signed. ff. 120. Browned and wormed. Contemporary calf, worn. Folio.

Livorno: E. Sa’adon 1803

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

R. Chaim Yoseph David Azulai (the Chid’a, 1724-1806) is regarded by many to have been the greatest Sephardic sage of the modern era.