Auction 74
Lot 241:
Sefer Agur, an ancient work, with Sefer Chazon (with a separate title page) at its end. Both works are by Rabbi Yaakov Baruch Ashkenazi Landau (see Hebrew catalog text).
Printed in Zholkva, 1798. 122, [4] leaves. In the Rare Book Collection of the National Library. Taping to the first title page. Fold and tears to edges. Stains. Slightly loose binding. Goodo verall condition. 19 cm.
On the last page, blurred stamps: "אלעזר הלוי ראזענפעלד חונה פה אשפצין בהה"צ מקאמינקא וחהה"צ מצאנז זצללה"ה" – The Admor Rabbi Elazar Halevi Rosenfeld of Oshpitzin (1862-1943), “Rabbi Elazar Oshpitziner”, was the son of the Admor Rabbi Yehoshua of Kominka and son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Chaim of Sanz (the Divrei Chaim). In 1936 he immigrated to Israel (to Safed) and then to Jerusalem, where he established his Beit Midrash. In 1939, due to health issues, he returned to Poland where he perished in Sosnowitz, to where he had been deported with the residents of his town.
On verso of the binding, handwritten signatures and stamps: "צבי דב כהנוביץ" (see Hebrew catalog text).
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