(SHa”CH). Poal Tzedek [the 613 precepts divided according to the seven days of the week]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

KATZ, SHABTHAI BEN MEIR

printer

Grand-children of Judah Bak

Place

Prague

Publication

1722

Description

Second edition. Historiated title-page. Printer’s device on f. 3v.

references

Vinograd, Prague 813

summary

With material not printed in later editions; e.g. a poem with the author’s name in acrostics and a “kethav eiduth” by the Sha"ch’s grandson, Yitzchak b. Moshe, attesting that the family is a direct descendent of Saul Wahl, the legendary Polish “King for a Day.”

ff. (28). Ex-library, some worming especially on final leaves. Contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed. 12mo

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