Shivah Einayim [selected novellea and discourses]

Estimate: $6,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(EGER, AKIVA).

printer

Abraham Meldola

Place

Livorno

Publication

1745

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. WITH SIGNATURE OF RABBI AKIVA EGER (1761-1837) ON TITLE PAGE

references

Vinograd, Livorno 57

summary

Signed “Akiva Günz” (in Hebrew) on title. With stamps of I. L. Eger of Johannesburg and R. Chaim Aryeh Rottenberg of Stavisk. The front free-end pages and verso of the final leaf contain attestations written by disciples of Akiva Eger stating that this book belongs to their master, who at the time was the Rabbi of Friedland

ff. 4, 68. Neat marginal repairs to first few leaves. Later roan-backed marbled boards, gently rubbed. Sm. 4to

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