Auction 15 · Lot 161
EMDEN, JACOB.
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $6,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
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Publication
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Description
Lechem Shamayim [commentary to the Mishnah]. Part I. Woodcut diagram of the position of the Temple furniture. ff.(1), 122 (i.e. 121). With marginal notations by R. Tzvi Hirsch Berlin. [Vinograd, Wandsbeck 18]. Wandsbeck, Israel ben Abraham, 1720. * Lechem Shamayim. Part II. Printed without a title page. ff. 104,36. [Vinograd, Altona 87; JNUL copy incomplete]. Altona, By the Author, 1768
summary
Tzvi Hirsch Berlin (b.1721), former Rabbi of London’s Great and Hambro synagogues (where he was known as Hart Lyon), rose in rabbinic eminence to occupy the position of Chief Rabbi of Berlin and provinces (“Oberlandisrabbiner”) from 1773 until his death in 1800. He was the nephew of Jacob Emden. He authored a surprisingly critical commentary to his eminent uncle’s explication on the Ethics of the Fathers in the latters’ Lechem Shamayim issued in Berlin in 1834
Dampstained, second part foxed in places, institutional stamps, split. Later gilt-ruled morocco, gilt-titled on upper cover and spine, gently rubbed at edges. Folio
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