Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

PARDO, JOSEPH.

printer

Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1686

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers device (cf. Ya’ari’s Printers Marks no. 66). Five page dedication in Spanish to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London. Approbations by members of the Rabbinate of Amsterdam.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 534; Fuks, Amsterdam 362.

summary

Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, London, a post to which his son succeeded him. According to A. Hyamson: “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola,” See A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) pp. 78-.

ff. (10), 96. Lightly stained in places, upper left corner of first few leaves slightly frayed not affecting text, slight tape repair to upper left corner of final two leaves. Modern gilt-tooled morocco. 16mo.

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