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Bidding Information
Lot #    4388
Auction End Date    4/29/2003 12:22:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Toldot Ya'acov
Title (Hebrew)    תולדות יעקב
Author    [First Edition - Egypt R. Jacob Castro
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Yisroel Bak
Publication Date    1865
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], 96 f, quarto, 210:167 mm., light browning and dampstaining, wide margins. Not bound.
          
Paragraph 1    First edition.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novaelle on Tractate Bei'eh.
          
Paragraph 2    R. Jacob Castro, rabbinical authority; lived in Egypt; died there in 1610. He was a nephew, not a son, of the master of the mint, Abraham de Castro. On a pilgrimage to Safed he was the guest of R. Joseph Caro, by whom he was highly esteemed. De Castro corresponded among other of his contemporaries with R. Samuel de Medina, and was the author of several works, which were published after his death.
          
Reference
Description		    Halevy 118
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
Other:    Egypt
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica