Auction 57

Sefer Machaneh David by Rabbi David Bunan—copy owned by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem. Jerusalem 1889.

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Sefer Machaneh David by Rabbi David Bunan, with a dedication by Rabbi Masoud ben Shimon, Ra’avad of Egypt, addressed to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Printed by Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman, Jerusalem 1889.

The title page has a handwritten dedication in pretty sofer script: “a gift sent to the Rav Gaon Moharar Shmuel Salant, from the gvir Yitzhak Bunan, in Tunis, by the young Masoud Chai ben Shimon ben HaRahak David ben Shimon s”t.”
[4], 59, 29, [2] leaves.
Tear without missing part of one of the index leaves. Good condition.
Rabbi Masoud Chai ben Shimon (1869-1925) was the son of the Dvash Rabbi David ben Shimon. He served as Chief Rabbi of Egypt, authored Shem Chadash on names of gittin.