Auction 19 · Lot 64

Kol Aryeh [novellae to the Talmud]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $750

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

author

CHARIF, ARYEH LEIB

printer

Israel Bak

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1866

Description

ONLY EDITION. Two title-pages, each with woodcut vignette of Holy Sites. Title within typographcal arch. THE DAVID SASSON COPY, inscribed to him by the Author on front free end paper

references

Halevy 127

summary

Published by the Author’s grandson, Shneur Zalman Mendelovitz of the Chabad Community in Hebron. The work has an unusually large number of approbations, including R. Israel Salanter (seldom given to proffer such commendations), R. Joshua Leib Diskin and the five sons of the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel. The Author provides a lengthy preface in which he recounts his travels in aid of the Hebron community, visiting Europe, the Near East and India. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) p.696

ff.(4),80(i.e.84). Light stains in places, inscription on front free-end paper. Later boards, gently rubbed. 4to

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