TRAKHEIM, ISAAC. Givath Shaul [eulogy for Saul Ha’Levi, Av Beth Din of The Hague]

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Widow and Orphans Proops

Amsterdam

1786

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Printer’s device on title and final leaf

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2151

Includes fascinating insight by Maimonides on the inevitablity of high-speed air travel. Whereby a traveller may be in Surat, India in the morning, and by evening, have reached Philadelphia, America. In his introduction, the Author explains that he has nine daughters in need of a dowry and that he intends to use the funds raised from the sale of this work for that express purpose. Indeed, the chronogram on the title is “Le’nadan Biti” (For my Daughters Dowry)