Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $550

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author

LANIADO, SAMUEL

printer

Gershom ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1610

Description

Second edition. Title within woodcut historiated architectural arch bearing the crowned Priestly hands printers’ mark flanked by two winged cherubs (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no.53). THE TZVI HIRSCH FERBER COPY, inscribed by him on front-free endpaper

references

Vinograd, Prague 191

summary

Known as the "Baal Hakelim" (all of his works begin with the word "kli"), the author was one of the most prolific scholars of Aleppo

ff.268,(8). Browned, trace marginal worming in places, neat marginal repairs to title. Modern boards. Folio

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