Lev Tov [ethical conduct, with laws and customs]

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $300

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

author

ISAAC BEN ELIAKIM OF POSEN.

printer

J. May

Place

Dyhernfurth

Publication

1808

Description

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. The M. Zagajski copy with his bookplate.

references

Vinograd, Dyhernfurth 421.

summary

Devotional guide for daily life interwoven with laws, customs, tales and parables. First published in Prague in 1620, it soon became one of the most popular Yiddish books of morality especially among women. Gluckel of Hamelin is recorded as instructing her children about the work “in it you will find everything.” See Zinberg, History of Jewish Literature, Vol. 7, pp. 159-64.

ff. 79. Stained, few paper repairs. Modern marbled boards. 4to.

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