Auction 106: Rare Hebrew Books
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jun 27, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
The Marx Library (Part II).
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LOT 115:

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

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Auction took place on Jun 27, 2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Shivchei Yerushalayim [an anthology of works (including R. Chaim Vital and R. Yitzchak Luria) on the Holy Sites].


FIRST EDITION.


Edited by Ya’akov b. Moshe Chaim Baruch. Title within woodcut floral border. Wide margins.

ff. (1), 47, (1). Browned, trace wormed. Modern boards. 8vo.

Vinograd, Livorno 216.


Livorno, A. Castillo and E. Saadon, 1785.


This work became extremely popular due to its lively descriptions of various holy sites located throughout Eretz Israel (including customs of both Jews and Muslims). Most importantly, it provides detailed location of many graves of Sages from the past many centuries.


Also includes an anonymous 16th-century travelogue of Eretz Israel, excerpts from the travels of Benjamin of Tudela, information pertaining to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes, localized meditative prayers, etc.