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Auction 63 · Lot 122

Sepher HaKuzari - Liber Cosri.

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

HALEVI, JUDAH.

printer

E. A. Telgener

Place

Hannover

Publication

1838

Description

Edited by Isaac Metz. Text in Hebrew with additional Latin title-page. An uncommonly large paper copy with extended margins.

references

Vinograd, Hannover 46.

summary

A scholarly edition prepared by the antiquarian Issac Metz (cataloguer of Koheleth David (1826), the famed Oppenheim Collection). See A. Shear, The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity (2008), pp. 250-1.
pp. 3, 8, 127, 8. Few stains. Original printed wrappers bound into contemporary boards. Sq. 8vo.
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