Bidspirit auction | ALFANDARI, CHAIM BEN YITZCHAK. Seder

ALFANDARI, CHAIM BEN YITZCHAK. Seder Eliyah Rabbah VeZuta [laws of Agunoth]. FIRST EDITION. Personal copy of MOSES MENDELSSOHN and R. HIRSCHEL LEVIN CHIEF RABBI OF BERLIN with their inscriptions on title-page. ff. (2), 132, 69, (1). Formerly in the library of Jews’ College, London. Contemporary boards, upper cover detached, rubbed. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Const. 406. Constantinople Yonah ben Ya’akov Ashkenazi, 1719 R. Hirschel Levin (1721-1800), also known as Hart Lyon, served as rabbi of Berlin and later Chief Rabbi of England. Hailing from an important rabbinic family, his father was R. Aryeh Leib Loewenstam of Amsterdam and his grandfather was the Chacham Zvi. His notes are published in the Vilna edition of Talmud.