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Auction 64 · Lot 140

Shivchei Yerushalayim [an anthology of works including R. Chaim Vital and the Ar”i on the Holy Sites]. Edited by Jacob b. Moses Chaim Baruch.

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

printer

A. Castillo and E. Saadon

Place

Livorno

Publication

1785

Description

FIRST EDITION . Title within woodcut floral border.

references

Vinograd, Livorno 216.

summary

This work became extremely popular due to its detailed, lively descriptions of various places and sites throughout Eretz Israel (including customs of both Jews and Arabs). It includes an anonymous 16th-century travelogue of Eretz Israel, information pertaining to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes, identifies the graves of various Sages, excerpts from the travels of Benjamin of Tudela, prayers etc.
ff. (1), 47, (1). Ex library, some staining. Contemporary tooled calf. 8vo.
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