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

EMDEN, JACOB

By the Author

Altona

1761-68

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

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

This copy with an appendix of 2 leaves (including a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam 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. Previous owners’ stamps on flyleaf and title-pages including: Rabbi Joseph Breuer, Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, R. Shimshon Aaron Polonsky (author of Divrei Aaron), Abraham Chaim Wagner and others