Bigdei Aharon [sermons]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

TE’OMIM, AARON

printer

Johannes Kölner

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1711

Description

FIRST EDITION. Fine Large Paper Copy. Title within highly wrought historiated border containing figures of Greek godesses

references

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 263

summary

A Fine Wide-Margined Copy. The author was a highly regarded preacher, thus the epithet "Darshan" was added to his name. His commentary Mateh Aharon to the Passover Haggadah is particularly esteemed. In 1670, he succeded R. Shimshon Bachrach as Rabbi of Worms, where he served for seventeen years, following which, he accepted a call to the pulpit in Cracow. In 1690, R. Aaron Te’omim was murdered, hence the acrostic HY"D (Hashem Yinkom Damo) on the title

ff.(2), 40, 21, 20,15,18. Signature on title inked out. Contemporary limp patterned boards incorporating printers galleys, rubbed and chipped. Lg. folio

Enquire about this lot