Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 15, 2018
USA
242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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Chessed Le’Avraham [Kabbalistic prayer book based upon the mystical Kavanoth of R. Issac Luria, the AR”I]. Edited by Abraham ben Shalom Tobeinah.
Printer’s mark on verso of title. A fine copy.
ff. (1), 140. Bound in Valmadonna-custom morocco-backed boards, spine titled in gilt. 8vo. Vinograd, Mantua 532.
Mantua: Eliezer Solomon d’Italia 1783
This Kabbalistic prayer-book contains the prayers for the week, Sabbath and the New Month. Many of the compositions were inspired by the controversial Chemdath HaYamim, thus protests were lodged against the work upon publication. See Weiner, Koheleth Moshe no. 4295.
