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Auction 50 · Lot 291

Sermon Moral predicado en la celebracion, del estrenamiento de la Santa Jesiba de Hezrath Holim

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
$1,000

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

author

EDREHI, MOSEH DE ISAAC.

printer

S.A. Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1801

Description

FIRST EDITION. Spanish and Hebrew. On p. 6, as proof of authenticity of the edition, there appear three signatures of the Author in faded sepia: Hebrew (Moshe ben Yitzchak Edre'i), Arabic (Moseh Edre'i Azulai) and Spanish (M. Edrehi)

references

Kayserling, 42

summary

A sermon preached by the Moroccan-born Moses Edrehi, celebrating the establishment of a home to assist the infirm. Born in Agadir, Morocco in 1772, Edrehi sojourned in London, before he became a "estudiante del Medras Grande, de Hets Haim" ("a student of the Great Midrash Ets Haim"). Edrehi later served as the British Consul in Jerusalem, where he died in 1842. See JE, Vol. V, pp. 41-2; EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 380-1
pp.27, (2), (1 blank). Trace foxed. Stiff marbled wrappers. Sm. 4to
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