Kithvei Kodesh Umelitzath

Estimate

$1,200–$1,800

Hammer price

$1,200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

GILDER, SHIMON DI

printer

n.p.

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

(1759)

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1785

summary

Di Gilder was an emissary from Safed, sent to raise funds from his co-religionists in Europe. This pamphlet presents letters of attestation from leading Rabbinic figures - (including Jonathan Eybescheutz and R. Jacob Joshua, the Pnei Yehoshua) - on behalf of di Gilder’s good character and applauding his charitable endeavors. Yaari, in his Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (pp.446-9) contends that di Gilder was a disreputable individual who in fact stole the funds he purported to collect on behalf of others

ff.12. Marginal wear. Contemporary patterned wrappers, worn. 8vo

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