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ASHER BEN YECHIEL (RO”Sh). Pi Shnayim [commentary to Seder Zeraim]. With additional material by the editor Elisha ben Abraham of Horodna

Auction 40 · Lot 80

ASHER BEN YECHIEL (RO”Sh). Pi Shnayim [commentary to Seder Zeraim]. With additional material by the editor Elisha ben Abraham of Horodna

Estimate
$3,000–$5,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(BRESLAU, ARYEH LEIB)

printer

A. Katz

Place

Altona

Publication

1735

Description

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY from R. Aryeh Leib Breslau as a wedding gift to Isaac ben Chaim Hakohen of Amsterdam dated 1784. N.H. Van Biema plate

references

Vinograd, Altona 21

summary

R. Aryeh Leib Breslau (1741-1809) served first as Rabbi of Emden, Holland and later of Rotterdam (from 1781). See portrait in M.H. Gans, Memorbook (1971), p. 230. See also Lot 6
ff. (10), 8, (4), 9-12, 76, 101-108. Light bowning. Contemporary half calf, rubbed. 4to
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