Auction 57 · Lot 277

Samuel Tissot. Refu’oth Ha’am [medical compendium]

Estimate: $7,000–$9,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(TE’OMIM, BARUCH FRAENKEL OF LEIPNIK)

printer

M. Rubinstein

Place

Zolkiew

Publication

1794

Description

Hebrew translation by Menachem Mendel Levin of Satanow. THE R. BARUCH FRANKEL TEUMIM OF LEIPNIK COPY with an inscription in German on the final flyleaf “ Dieses buch gehert… Baroch Frankel Oberrabi[ner] an Leipnik.” Amidst various inscriptions on the title-page is the Hebrew signature: “Harav… Frankel Teumim.” With various dense inscriptions on endpapers, including signature of Moshe Politz (1814) and marginal notes and corrections in various Ashkenazi hands, plus a handwritten medical recipe on first back flyleaf.

references

Vinograd, Zolkiew 476.

summary

Father-in-law of the famed Chassidic Rebbe R. Chaim Sanzer, R. Baruch Frankel Teumim (1760-1828) author of Baruch Ta’am, was one of the most renowned Talmudic scholars of his generation. It is noteworthy he owned this type of medical book and may even have written marginal notes on it.

ff. (140). Worn. Modern boards. 8vo.

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