Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah, Mantua 1722 - Signature of Rabbi Yaakov Zvi Halberstam Av Beit Din in Sucha – Signed Italian Glosses

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Shulchan Aruch, with collection of writings by Rabbi Gur Aryeh HaLevi. Yoreh De’ah section. Mantua, [1722]. Only edition.
Several glosses in Italian handwriting, two of them signed – Y.G. [?].
Flyleaf contains signature in square writing of “holy Yaakov Zvi Halberstam, holy congregation of Sucha, 1932”.
Holy Ga’on Rabbi Yaakov Zvi Halberstam (1896-1943),son of Rebbe Rabbi Yitzchak Yishaya Halberstam of Chekhov, and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld Av Beit Din of Oshpitzin. Founder of Yeshivat Divrei Chaim of which his father was president, in Krakow, Sucha and Kachanov. Served as Rabbi of Sucha from 1923. Perished in Holocaust together with most of his family.
[1], 148-288 leaves. 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and wear, coarse cutting of paper on bottom margins. Ancient leather binding, worn, one buckle missing.
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