(“Dubno Maggid”). Kol Ya’akov [homilies to the Five Scrolls]. Edited by the Author’s son.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $150

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author

KRANTZ, YA'AKOV OF DUBNO

printer

H. Nossonowicz & W. Joelowicz

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1819

Description

FIRST EDITION. With: Avel Kaved U'mispad Tamrurim [eulogy] on ff. 130-138. Stamps of Chaim Freund of Satu-Mare.

references

Vinograd, Warsaw 56; Mehlman 897.

summary

This edition contains approbations excluded from later editions, including those by R. Akiva Eger of Posen, R. Jacob of Lissa, R. Tzvi Hirsch David Segal of Cracow and R. Aryeh Leib Katzenellenbogen of Brisk. This edition also with a eulogy by the author’s son R. Yitzchak for Yisrael Tzenzimmer, chairman of the Chevra Kadisha of Warsaw, as well as a letter of thanks endorsed by the Gabbaim. In later editions, the person for whom the eulogy was intoned, and the letter of thanks, is not found.

ff. (4), 138. Lightly browned, scattered stains in places. Later morocco-backed marbled boards, gently rubbed and worn at extremities, lacking lower portion of spine. 4to.

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