Toldoth Ya’akov [exposition of various Biblical and Talmudic passages]

Estimate: $150–$200
Hammer price: $130

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA). EISENSTADT, JACOB BEN ELIEZER.

printer

for W. Tooke

Place

London

Publication

1770

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Roth, London 19; Vinograd, London 59 (both with erroneous pagination)

summary

This work was “the first Hebrew book printed for a Jew in England, by Isaac b. Jedidiah Halevi, Moses b. Gerson and Jacob b. Issachar Cohen, who had secured typesetters from Holland and occupied a shop in the house of W. Tooke, an Englishman.” JE, V 83.

ff.(3),65, good margins though lightly browned, recent cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo

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