HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel]

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: $200

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

author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Israel Bak, 1844 (i.e.

Place

“Jerusalem” (Lemberg?)

Publication

1870?)

Description

Second Edition. Woodcut printer’s device on title (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 201)

references

Vinograd, Jerusalem 29; Halevy 23 (includes illustration of title)

summary

An almost precise replica of the Jerusalem edition (see previous lot). Shoshana Halevy speculates the actual printing was done in Lemberg due to certain additions. See Halevy, The First Hebrew Books Printed in Jerusalem (1975), p. 15

ff. (3), 63 (i.e. 60). Light stains. Later boards, rubbed. Sm. 4to

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