JACOB JOSEPH OF OSTROG. Rav Yeivi [homilies to the Pentateuch, Psalms, Talmud etc.]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $7,000

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author

(CHASSIDISM)

printer

(Moses Shapira)

Place

Slavuta

Publication

1792

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. Printed on light green tinted paper. Previous owners signatures and inscriptions, includingYisrael David Morgenstern and Naphtali Yehudah b. Avraham Yaakov Segal

references

Vinograd, Slavuta 4; Mehlman 1143

summary

THE FIRST CHASSIDIC WORK PUBLISHED IN SLAVUTA. The author was a disciple of the Maggid of Mezhritch and a colleague both of R. Zushye of Annopol and the Baal-Shem Tov’s grandson, R. Baruch of Mezhibuhz

ff. 139, 49. Stained, final leaf mounted with loss of a few letters. Modern morocco. Folio

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