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 122:

JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arbah Turim [Rabbinic ...

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JACOB BEN ASHER.

Arbah Turim [Rabbinic Code].

Four parts in one volume. Title within arch depicting Moses, Aaron and Abraham.

Previous owner's stamps in Hebrew and Russian: S. Zuckerman, Mohilev (see below).

ff. 117, (1), 91, (1), 59, (1), 140. Scattered Latin and Hebrew marginalia, final leaf repaired. Contemporary calf, chipped, rubbed. 4to.

Vinograd, Hanau 3.


Hanau, Hans Jacob Hanau, 1610.

The prior owner of this volume, Shmarya Zuckerman, was known for his outstanding library and collected and published many of the Vilna Gaon's writings. Zuckerman’s wife was the Gaon’s great-grand-daughter.


The volume contains a handwritten note on the opening pastedown stating that this Hanau edition contains comments and notes from R. Avraham of Prague who is cited by the Levush Ha'Orah, Parshath Massai, Chap. 34,3.


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