Bidspirit auction | Amudei Beit Yehuda. Only Edition.
Amudei Beit Yehuda. Only Edition. Amsterdam 1766 – Signed by the Printers – Copy Including the Rare Poems and Indexes Leaves. - Sefer Amudei Beit Yehuda, essays on sayings of Chazal and on the basic tenets of faith [”Messiah and resurrection of the dead… the 13 principles of faith… the sayings of Rabba bar bar Chana”], by the Torah scholar Rabbi Yehuda Leib Horwitz of Vilna. Only Edition. Amsterdam, 1766. On the verso of the title page is an illustration of an edifice with pillars (symbolizing the name of the sefer) and a frame with the handwritten signature of the printers R. Leib Zusmensh and Yehuda Hiyasi. The section that deals with the 13 principles has a special title page. At the beginning of the sefer are many rabbinical approbations and poems by various Torah scholars and scribes. Includes [5] rare leaves which were added to some copies: index and poems - bound in this copy in the middle of the leaves of approbations and poems at the beginning of the volume. [13], 100 Leaves. 18.5 cm.