Bidspirit auction | PARDO, YOSEPH. Shulchan HaTahor [summary

PARDO, YOSEPH. Shulchan HaTahor [summary of laws extracted from R. Yoseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch]. Posthumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo. Title within attractive historiated border depicting a deer in reference to the publisher's name Tzvi Hirsch, adjacent to three gentlemen in period dress dinning at a “prepared table” (alluding to the title of the book). ff. (8), 92. Lightly discolored. Later boards. 16mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1993. Amsterdam, n.p. 1770. The volume ends with the Tefilath HaDerech, the traveler’s prayer, indicative that its petite size was fit for the reader who could comfortably slip the book into his pocket and consult it during the course of his travels.