Agadath Arba Kosoth

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

PAPPENHEIM, SOLOMON

printer

The Chinuch Ne’arim Press

Place

Berlin

Publication

1790

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Berlin 393

summary

Hebrew linguist, poet and ardent advocate of the Haskalah, Pappenheim served as Dayan in Breslau until his death in 1814. His primary contribution to modern Hebrew literature is the present work of poetic prose - strongly influenced by the English poet Edward Young’s Night Thoughts. “It is one of the foundations of Hebrew lyricism.” EJ, XIII cols. 68-9

ff. (3), 25 (i.e. 23). Later boards. 8vo

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