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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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