Chazah Tzion [kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $800

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author

RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI.

printer

Abraham Ricchi for Abraham Meldola

Place

Livorno

Publication

1742

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari no. 115)

references

Vinograd, Livorno 34

summary

The author’s son, Abraham Samuel Ricchi, includes a biography of his father’s life as an appendix to this work. He describes his father’s journey to Italy and his murder on the road between Modena and Bologna, a fact dreamt by Raphael Ricchi in Jerusalem in which he visioned he was a reincarnation of the Tana R. Yehudah Ben Baba who was killed by the Romans and was one of the “Asarah HaRugei Malchuth.”

ff. 138, (2). Some staining. Contemporary boards, rubbed, spine chipped. Folio

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