(“The Dubno Maggid.”) Kol Ya’akov [homilies to the five Megiloth]. Edited by the author’s son.

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

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Lot 278
KRANZ, JACOB.

(“The Dubno Maggid.”) Kol Ya’akov [homilies to the five Megiloth]. Edited by the author’s son.

<<First edition.>> With stamp of R. Joseph Peimer of Slutsk on verso of title and final leaf, with manuscript comments on opening blank citing the Vilna Gaon, marginalia on f. 130a. ff. (4), 138. Lightly browned. Contemporary boards, worn. 4to. Vinograd Warsaw 56; Mehlman 897.

Warsaw: H. Nossonowicz 1819

Est: $400 - $600
This edition contains approbations excluded from later editions, including those by R. Akiva Eger of Posen, R. Jacob of Lissa, R. Tzvi Hirsch David Segal of Cracow and R. Aryeh Leib Katzenellenbogen of Brisk. ff. 130 -138 contains a eulogy by the author’s son R. Yitzchak for Yisrael Tzenzimmer, chairman of the Chevra Kadisha of Warsaw. Also includes a letter of thanks endorsed by the Gabbaim. In later editions, the person for whom the eulogy was said, and the letter of thanks is not mentioned.