Bidspirit auction | FERRARA (PERIERA), AARON RAPHAEL. Ki

FERRARA (PERIERA), AARON RAPHAEL. Ki MeTzion Teitzeh Torah [on the sanctity of Eretz Israel]. FIRST EDITION. With illustrations of the tombs of the Prophet Shmuel at Nebi Samwil and Mama Rachel at Bethlehem. Final page shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Temple Mount and the newly built Tiferet Yisrael synagogue. Additional page featuring an illustrated Mizrach. ff. (2), 32, (12). Ex-library. Contemporary boards (with owner’s name tooled in gilt) and with original pink pictorial wrappers bound in. 4to. Halevi, Jerusalem 192. Jerusalem, Isaac Guszini, 1873. The author intended his work to “increase love for Jerusalem, for one’s fellow Jew and for the holy Torah.” The treatise focuses on the uniqueness of these three elements and their intersectionality. Also contains a supplement by R. Akiva Schlesinger and a poem in honor of R. Shalom Sharabi.