Megilath Eivah.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $250

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

author

HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN.

printer

Y. Rotter

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1870

Description

Uncut copy.

summary

A description of the accusations of heresy made against the Tosfos Yom Tov followed by his subsequent legal ordeal: Trial, incarceration and ultimate freedom. The final two pages contain a list of the great Rabbis buried in the Cracow cemetery as inscribed on a plaque in the city’s famed Ram’a Synagogue.

ff. (1), 14 (1). Modern boards. 12mo.

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