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Auction 39 · Lot 108
Yismach Lev
- Estimate
- $150–$250
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
Gaguine, Shalom Moshe Chai.
printer
Isaac Gaszinni and Chaim Abraham Gaguine (son of author)
Place
Jerusalem
Publication
1878
references
Halevy 307
summary
Shalom Moshe Chai Gaguine was the son of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Chaim Abraham Gaguine (d. 1848). The Gaguines were a distinguished rabbinical family of Castilian origin by way of Morocco. The present book contains the Haskamah of the Rishon le-Zion (Chief Sephardic Rabbi), Abraham Ashkenazi. The work concludes with "Milei de-Avoth," responsa of the author's father Aga"n (Chaim Abraham Gaguine); a poem in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore upon his visit to Jerusalem; and an elegy for the deceased "Brigadier General, Qa'id" Nessim Samama of Livorno and formerly Tunis (1805-1873), a “benefactor of the Jewish People.” See JE, Vol. V, p. 546
ff. (2), 18, 43, 46, 98; pp. 12, (28). (Part II, f. 8 slightly torn; Part IV, f. 14 wormed with slight loss of text, ff. 40-41 bound out of sequence.) Browned. Modern cloth. Folio
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