Auction 79 THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 16, 2018 (Your local time)
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LOT 76:

KATZ, SAMUEL FEIBISH.

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Sepher Leket Shmuel [midrashic compilation].
First Edition. Title within decorative engraved border.
ff. 64. Dampstained in few places. Bound in Valmadonna-custom full calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 1462.
Venice: Vendramin 1694
The author was the city scribe in Lublin from where he fled pogroms to the safety of Vienna, whereupon in 1670 he was expelled from that city when Vienna banned Jews from its environs - he finally settled in Eretz Israel.===Of related interest, in the present work it is stated (ff. 30b-31a) that the Messiah disappeared in 1670 and will reappear 40 years hence. These words were in fact added to the book by followers of Shabbtai Tzvi, whose reign ceased in 1670.===See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II, pp. 1266-67.

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