(Ein Ya’akov) [Aggadoth of the Talmud]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 245

IBN HABIB, JACOB

(Ein Ya’akov) [Aggadoth of the Talmud]

<<First Edition.>> Two parts in two volumes. Printed without a title page. Extensive notes by a previous owner in Vol. I. This copy with variant printing compared to the Mehlman copy. Mispaginated. Many paper repairs to both volumes with loss of text. Vol. I: Contains total of ff. 185. Lacking ff. 1-4, 6-12, 18-19, 26, 28-29, 31-36, 150, 192, pp. 395-405. Also lacking the rare index and afterword (ff. 18) as in most copies. Vol II: pp. 421 (i.e. 422), (7), ff. 15 (of 16). Modern calf, spine gilt. Sm. folio. Sold not subject to return. Vinograd, Salonika 8 (NLI copy incomplete); Mehlman 192; St. Cat. Bod. 5518,1 (Expll. sunt rarissima).

Salonika: Yehuda Gedalia, circa 1516-22

Est: $20,000 - $30,000

<<RARE FIRST EDITION.>> The Ein Ya’akov is a compilation of all the Aggadic material in the Talmud, the aim being to familiarize the public with the ethical spirit of Talmudic literature. The author died midway through production and the work was completed by his son, Levi ibn Habib. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I p. 93.