Chaim Horowitz. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the holy sites of Eretz Israel]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $650

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Israel ben Abraham (Bak)

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1844

Description

FIRST EDITION . Woodcut printer’s device on title (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 201). The Abraham J. Karp Copy.

references

Vinograd, Jerusalem 29; Halevy 23.

summary

Chibath Yerushalayim is a Jewish traveler’s guide to the Holy Land. The author does not just restrict himself to the present state of the sites he discusses, but scours the entire corpus of rabbinic literature, as well as earlier reports by Jewish travelers. This is one of the first Hebrew books published in Jerusalem (the earliest being 1841) printed by Israel Bak on the new press sent to him from London by Sir Moses Montefiore. It is the first book about the Holy Land printed in Jerusalem.

ff. (2), (60). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to.

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