Mor u-Ketzi’ah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $5,500

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

author

EMDEN, JACOB

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By the Author

Place

Altona

Publication

1761-68

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in two volumes (each with individual title page). Illustration of the Land of Israel on verso of f.97 (vol. II). See E.& G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 82-3, w.33

references

Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael 5-1 (illustrated)

summary

This copy with an appendix of 2ff. (including a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Solomon Zalman of London) rarely found in other copies. At the conclusion of Vol. I (f. 102r.) the author relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work

Vol. I: ff.(1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. Vol. II: ff. 90, 90-95, 97-99. Browned and stained in places, repairs to opening title. Modern calf-backed cloth boards in attractive slipcase. Folio

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