Auction 52

Sefer Chovot HaLevavot. Shanghai 1943. From WWII.

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Sefer Chovot HaLevavot, by the dayan Rabbeinu Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda of Spain. Printed at the height of the war. Facsimile printing of the Warsaw 1870 edition.

132, [4] leaves based on the bibliographic listings—this copy has page numbering which starts after the title page with #4 but no leaves appear to be missing given the text flow which is preserved from the back of the title page. It appears that the pagination was preserved from the Warsaw edition, where there was an introduction from the translator and thus began on #4.

Tape and reinforcement, binding with worming damage, stains, overall good condition The title page has a stamp: “Rabbi Shlomo Burstein, Ram of the Rav Kook yeshiva in Montevideo.”