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Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,400

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printer

n.p.

Place

Salonika

Publication

1741

Description

Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers, with mystical meditations]. ff. (7), 146, (1). [Vinograd, Salonika 243]. * WITH: (HAGADAH). Sha’arei Ratzon. Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo. With commentary to other Festivals. ff. 57. [Vinograd, Salonika 244; Yaari 120; Yudlov 193, all with variant collation]

summary

The first printed edition of the Prayer-Book according to the custom of Isaac Luria (Nusach Ari). Together with the first Kabbalistic Hagadah. Both prepared by the mystic, Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo

Slight brownng and staining, usual wine stains in the Hagadah. Neat marginal repairs on title and ff. 24, 25 affecting a few words of text. Otherwise a fine, wide-margined copy. Contemporary morocco, gently rubbed. 4to

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