Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Pe'at Hashulchan, Safed 1836

Opening: $120
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
The book Pe'at Hashulchan – supplement to the Shulchan Aruch, laws contingent on Eretz Israel. By Rabbi Israel of Shklov, disciple of the Vilna Ga'on. Israel Beck Print. Safed, 1836. First edition.
Various owners' signatures. (Rabbi Ya'akov Hai Zrihan, Chief Rabbi of Tiberius, and Yehuda Zatuni).
[5], 2-109, [1] leaf. 30.5 cm. Fair-poor condition, moth holes and damages.
The last page, a table of mistakes and corrections, is rare and does not appear in most copies. This is one of the last books printed in Safed before the great earthquake in 1837. (Then the author and printer moved to Jerusalem, after losing most of their families).
Patterns of Jerusalem and Safed
Patterns of Jerusalem and Safed