Kiseh Rachamim [commentary to Tractates Kallah, Soferim and Avoth DeRabbi Nathan]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $3,000

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

author

AZULAI, CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID.

printer

E. Sa’adon

Place

Livorno

Publication

1803

Description

First edition. THE CHID’A COPY With his signature on title-page, along with Samuel Conquy (Conki). Scholarly marginalia throughout mostly in the hand of Samuel Conki, often signed.

references

Vinograd, Livorno 518.

summary

R. Chaim Yoseph David Azulai (the Chid’a, 1724-1806) is regarded by many to have been the greatest Sephardic sage of the modern era.

ff. 120. Browned and wormed. Contemporary calf, worn. Folio.

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