Sha’ar HaMelech on the Rambam, first edition bearing the commentary Ta’am HaMelech. Brin 1801-3

Sha’ar HaMelech on the Rambam, first edition bearing the commentary Ta’am HaMelech. Brin 1801-3

3 sections bound together, the complete work, by Rabbi Yitzhak ben Moshe Nunis Bilmonty. As mentioned on the cover, this is the second edition of this important work but the first to feature the commentary Ta’am HaMelech by Rabbi Baruch ben Yona Yitlis. Section 1 was printed in 1801, section 2 in 1802, and section 3 in 1803, by Yosef Rosman.

Important endorsements, including one from Rabbi Mordechai Bennett. Cover in red ink, partially missing cover (cover and last page of section 2, and according to the bibliographic listing another 2 last pages from the first section, maybe index or errata). [4], 88 136 104 pages. Repairs on the back of the cover and the endorsements without damage to text, folding and wear, slight stains, 2 pages partially disconnected, old binding wrapped in paper. Generally good condition.

Various notes, some in the local language. Blank first page has the note: “From the library of Dov Sternbuch.”

Rabbi Dov Sternbuch of Gateshead and Bnei Brak was the son of Rabbi Asher of London, a descendent of the Gra. He was a huge talmid chacham who knew the Shas by heart. He was close with many sages, and was a student of the Gra”a Dessler. He had a special relationship with Maran Rabbi Haim Kanievsky, who forbid him from asking those at his beit midrash not to stand in his honor. He was brother of the Ra’avad of Antwerp, Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbuch, and the Ra’avad of the Charedi community, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch. Died in 1990 when he was on his way to Minchah, aged 96.