Sepher Sephath Emeth ke-Minhag K”K Sephardim…im ketzath kavanoth…Ha-Ar”i [prayers]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

Israel ben Abraham Bak

Place

Safed

Publication

1832

Description

According to Sephardic Rite with Lurianic Devotions]. With the encomia of Sephardic Rabbi, Nissim Zerachyah Azulai (grandson of R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai and Aschkenazic Rabbi, Israel of Shklov, disciple of the Vilna Gaon

references

Vinograd, Safed 7; Ya’ari, Safed 7

summary

The first prayer-book printed in Safed, the “City of Kabbalists,” and the first Hebrew book printed there after an interval of almost two and a half centuries. The earliest production from this printer’s press

ff. 20, 208. Lacking ff. 18-19; 1, 21-25 supplied in facsimile. f.20 misbound between ff.4-5, title and first several leaves slightly wormed, stained. Contemporary calf. 12mo

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