Benjamin Raphael Dias Brandon. Emek Binyamin [responsa]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

printer

Jan Jansson

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1753

Description

First Edition.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1682.

summary

The earliest Rabbinic text relating to Jews in the Americas. Includes a Halachic inquiry concerning laws of inheritance from Aaron Ledesma, Rabbi of the Dutch colony of Surinam (f. 22v). See I & S. Emmanuel, History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles, Vol. I, p. 178 and M. Silber, America in Hebrew Literature (1928) pp. 41-2.

ff. (2), 22. Ex-library, browned. Recent boards. 8vo.

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