Bidspirit auction | EPHRAYIM SHLOMO OF LUNTSCHYTZ. Ir

EPHRAYIM SHLOMO OF LUNTSCHYTZ. Ir Gibborim [sermons on Chumash].  First edition. Previous owner’s inscriptions including Gavriel Grouzich of Ephaltz and M. Gottesman of Bratislava. ff. 137. Stained, few repairs at end, opening leaves dog-eared. Contemporary limp boards, worn. Folio. Vinograd, Basle 166. Basle, Ambrosius Froben, 1580. The author later issued an expanded version of Ir Gibborm entiled Oleloth Ephraim following criticism received for his alleged neglect to cite sufficient sources in the earlier work. Luntschytz defended himself by stating that “At the time [that I wrote Ir Gibborim] I had neither bread to eat, nor clothes to wear, and had no books to consult… I wrote only the things that my memory retained from my youth.” See M. Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History (1977) pp. 151-52.