Sepher Tehillim. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner S.R. Hirsch.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $900

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author

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

printer

J. Kaufmann

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1882

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two title pages. Hebrew and German on facing page.

summary

This extensive translation and commentary to the book of Psalms is one of Hirsch’s most important accomplishments. “This work may be seen as a summary of a fruitful life of scholarship…Rabbi Hirsch felt a special affinity for the book of Psalms.” See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p. 334-35.

pp. ix, 381, (1), 367, (1). Previous owners’ marks. Modern elaborate blind-tooled chestnut calf. 4to.

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