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

Estimate: $2,500–$3,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

EMDEN, JACOB.

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By the Author

Place

Altona

Publication

1761-68

Description

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 - on a shorter leaf)

references

Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Y. Raphael, "Emden," Aresheth III, no. 5-1 (illustrated); E.& G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 82-3, w. 33

summary

This copy with an appendix of two-leaves at conclusion of Vol. II (including a responsum on Sha'atnez 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.

Vol. I: ff. (1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. Title and f.1 laid to size. Browned throughout. Old tape repairs on ff.102-103, some minor loss of text. * Vol. II: ff. 90, 90-95, 97-99 (ff. 76-77 duplicated). Title and ff. 2-4 tape-repaired and silked, some minor loss of text. Browned throughout. Old tape-repairs to map. Vol. I contemporary calf, rebacked. Vol. II contemporary marbled boards. Folio

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