Ki MeTzion Teitzeh Torah [on the importance of the Holy Land].

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

FERRARA (PERIERA), AARON RAPHAEL.

printer

Isaac Guszini

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1873

Description

First Edition. With illustrations of the tombs of the Prophet Samuel at Nebi Samwil and Mama Rachel at Bethlehem. Final page shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Temple Mount and the newly built Tiferet Yisrael synagogue. Additional page featuring an illustrated Mizrach.

references

Halevy 192.

summary

This work is intended to ‘increase love for Jerusalem, for one’s fellow Jew and for the holy Torah’. A treatise on the uniqueness of these three elements and their interconnectedness. Contains a supplement by R. Akiva Eger Schlesinger and a poem in honor of R. Shalom Sharabi.

ff. (2), 32, (12). Ex-library. Contemporary boards (with owner’s name tooled in gilt) and with original pink pictorial wrappers bound in. 4to.

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