Horowitz, Chaim Ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel].

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(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Horowitz, Chaim Ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel].

Woodcut printer’s device on title. ff. (3), 63 (i.e. 60). Some staining. Contemporary boards, spine chipped. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Jerusalem 29; Halevy 23.

“Jerusalem” (Lemberg?): Israel Bak “1844” (1870?)

Est: $300 - $500

Although the title-page mirrors the Jerusalem edition, Shoshanna Halevy (p. 15) speculates the actual printing was done in Lemberg. She deduces this to be a pirated edition due to the addition of a haskamah by R. Aaron Moses of Brody and a compiler’s foreword. <<* WITH:>> Another copy, with a variant title page. [Vinograd, Koenigsberg 183]. Jerusalem (i.e. Koenigsberg, 1858).