(Chid’a). Avodath HaKodesh [kabbalistic prayers, supplications, etc.]

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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author

AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID

printer

Israel Bak

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1841

Description

FIRST EDITION. The London Beth Din copy.

references

Vinograd, Jerusalem 1-9; Halevy, Jerusalem 1.

summary

The First Book Printed in Jerusalem. A collection of seven small treatises on Halachah, Minhag and Nusscha’oth of Prayer. R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai (1724-1806) was a Jerusalem-born scholar who served as an emissary to Europe on behalf of the communities of the Land of Israel. Prevented from returning to Eretz Israel, he spent the last 28 years of his life in Livorno printing his scholarly and historical works.

ff. (4), 111. Clean tear on ff. 3. Foxed and stained in places. Modern calf-backed boards. 8vo.

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