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Incunabula & Early Prints, Chassidut, Belongings of Tzaddikim, Amulets, Segula Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters & Chabad
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Messilat Yesharim - First Print. Amsterdam, 1740

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Auction took place on Sep 5, 2022 at Winner'S
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Messilat Yesharim - First Print. Amsterdam, 1740


Sefer Messilat Yesharim including all issues of mussar and fear of Heaven, by Rabbeinu Moshe Chaim Luzzato - the Ramcha"l. Amsterdam, 1740. Naftali Hertz Rofeh Press. First edition, printed in the author's lifetime. Incomplete copy, lacking four leaves that are not from the body of the book, from the proofreaders' introductions and the indices.


Fundamental book on mussar and divine service, later printed in hundreds(!) of editions.


[4]. 61 leaf. (incomplete copy - in the original: [6], 63 leaf. Lacking two leaves of the introductions by the proofreaders, and two leaves from the indices at the end of the book). 16 cm.


Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod no. 475.


Moderate-fine condition. Aging and usage stains. Signature in the title page of the sefer: "Raphael David Tevele HaLevi." Beautiful new parchment binding. 


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