Horowitz, Chaim Ben Dov-Ber Halevi. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

printer

Israel Bak

Place

“Jerusalem” (Lemberg?)

Publication

“1844” (1870?)

Description

Woodcut printer’s device on title.

references

Vinograd, Jerusalem 29.

summary

Although the title-page mirrors the Jerusalem edition, Shoshanna Halevy speculates the actual printing was done in Lemberg. She deduces this to be a pirated edition due to the addition of a haskamah by R. Aaron Moses of Brody and a Compiler’s Forward. See Halevy, The First Hebrew Books Printed in Jerusalem (1975), p. 15.

ff. (3), 63 (i.e. 60). Stained, stamps excised, opening leaf taped. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Sm. 4to.

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