Mafteach Hayam [on the number “seven” throughout the Torah, Talmud, etc.]

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

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Lot 163

KOBLENTZ, YA’AKOV MEIR.

Mafteach Hayam [on the number “seven” throughout the Torah, Talmud, etc.]

<<First edition.>> Printer’s mark on title. ff. 35. With signature of previous owner Binyamin Niderhopheim on title. Browned. Contemporary boards, broken. 4to. Vinograd, Offenbach 119.

Offenbach: Tzvi Spitz 1788

Est: $300 - $500

From the approbations and introduction, we learn that the author was blind, a disability he fell victim to aged fourteen. Nonetheless, he was imbued with a nimble mind and tremendous ability of recall. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) p. 140.