Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch]

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $600

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

author

JAFFE, MORDECHAI

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1623- 24

Description

Two parts (of four) in one volume. Two titles, within woodcut historiated architectural arch bearing the crowned Priestly hands printers’ mark flanked by two winged cherubs (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no.53)

references

Vinograd, Prague 307 & 315

summary

Opening pastedown with signature of Solomon ben Moses of Chelm, author of Mirkeveth Hamishnah. (See JE, XI 455)

I: Even Ha’ezer: Levush Butz Ve’argaman. ff.108. II: Choshen Mishpat: Levush Ir Shushan. ff.192. Stamp of Rabbi Leo Jung on titles. Browned. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over thick wooden boards, clasps and hinges removed, upper cover soiled. Folio

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