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Auction 3 · Lot 214

Shevet Yehudah [chronicle of the persecutions suffered by the Jews. With an account by Shabbthai b. Meir Cohen of the massacres in Poland, 1648-49]

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
$400

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author

SOLOMON IBN VERGA.

printer

Asher Anshel b. Eliezer & Partner

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1700

Description

FIRST EDITION translated into Yiddish of Cohen’s account. Prepared by Eliakim b. Jacob of Komorno. Yiddish text printed in Wayber-taytsch type.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 704; Fuks, Amsterdam 541
ff. 87. Foxed. Contemporary Dutch vellum-backed marbled boards, worn and rubbed. 8vo
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