Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Eilim Letruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: $800

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author

(ALEPPO).

printer

Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson

Place

Aleppo

Publication

1866

references

Yaari, Aleppo 1 and 2

summary

The first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses

(4),48,8. Modern morocco. 12mo

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