Yehuda Leib Ben Zev. Kol Rinah al Hashalom [celebrating the the end of the war between France and Austria]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(NAPOLEONICA).

printer

Anton Schmid

Place

Vienna

Publication

1810

references

Vinograd, Vienna 319.

summary

Ben Zev (1764–1811), was a poet, grammarian and lexicographer, the first Jewish scholar to apply Western research methods to the study of Hebrew. This poem praises the greatness of Napoleon and congratulates him upon his engagement to Maria Louisa, daughter of his former enemy Emperor Franz I - Napoleon’s father-in-law to be!

pp. 14. Slight staining, with marginal repair. Unbound. 8vo.

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