Mafteach Hayam [on the number “seven” throughout the Torah, Talmud, etc.]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

KOBLENTZ, YA’AKOV MEIR.

printer

Tzvi Spitz

Place

Offenbach

Publication

1788

Description

First edition. Printer’s mark on title.

references

Vinograd, Offenbach 119.

summary

From the approbations and introduction, we learn that the author was blind, a disability he fell victim to aged fourteen. Nonetheless, he was imbued with a nimble mind and tremendous ability of recall. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) p. 140.

ff. 35. With signature of previous owner Binyamin Niderhopheim on title. Browned. Contemporary boards, broken. 4to.

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