Halichoth Olam [Talmudic topics and issues]. Incorporating: Solomon Algazi’s Yavin Shm’uah and Joseph Karo’s KARO Kelalei HaGemara.

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HALEVI, JOSHUA.

Halichoth Olam [Talmudic topics and issues]. Incorporating: Solomon Algazi’s Yavin Shm’uah and Joseph Karo’s KARO Kelalei HaGemara.

First edition of Yavin Shm’uah. Title-page with signatures of the Frankfurt Dayanim and leaders R. Yaakov Shamesh and R. Leib Emmerich (dated 1780). ff. 129 (16). Some staining, previous owners inscriptions, scattered marginalia. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Venice 1230.

Venice: J. Martinelli for Vendramin 1639

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

Despite the title-page, the central text here is that of Halichoth Olam, with Yavin Shm’uah and Klalei HaGemara serving as surrounding commentaries. R. Yaakov Shamesh (d. 1785) served as Rosh Beth Din of Frankfurt. The Chassam Sofer studied under R. Yaakov Shamesh in his youth. See M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen (1972) pp. 323-24 and attachment 4, p. 59.