Hottinger, Johann Heinrich. Cippi Hebraici ["Tombs of the Hebrews]. Second edition. Hebrew and Latin text with occasional use of Arabic

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Samuel Broun

Place

Heidelberg

Publication

1662

Description

Four engraved plates (three double-page), one depicting Jewish tombs and monuments, another of ancient Judean coins

references

Tobler 71; Freimann, 195

summary

A translation of Yichus Avoth (Venice, 1575 - no copy extant), a description of the graves of the righteous and holy places of Eretz Israel. It was composed by Uri ben Shimon of Biala, an emissary of the Aschkenazi Community of Safed. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) pp.80 and 248. The expanded notes in the present edition are of scholarly and archaelogical interest

ff. 13, pp. 188, ff. 4. Some foxing. Later calf-backed marbled boards, cracked and rubbed. 12mo

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