of Sighet. Derech Emunah [commentary to Pentateuch and Festivals]

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $350

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

author

STERN, MENACHEM MENDEL.

printer

Eckhardt

Place

Czernowitz

Publication

1856, 1857 and 1860

Description

FIRST EDITION. Three volumes bound in two. Previous owners' marks including Yisrael Yaakov Yokel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Berbesht. The final flyleaf of the second volume contains a handwritten note signed by Menachem Mendel Margoliouth explaining a verse based upon a commentary of the Chatham Sofer

references

Vinograd, Czernowitz 139, 158 and 187

summary

Scarce. See I. J. Cohen, Hebrew Printing in Czernowitz, Aresheth vol. III no. 116, who was unable to locate the third part of this work, relying instead on Ben Menachem (Misifruth Yisrael Be’Ungariah p. 92)

ff. (4), 52; ff.(1), 49 (of 50, lacking final leaf); ff. 124. Variously stained. Contemporary boards. 4to

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