BY AND FOR THE ROTHSCHILDS
ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]. ספר אני בלב ים ... חלק ראשון
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
4to, ff. [2], עח [78]; in Hebrew; title within typographic border; trimmed close at head, occasionally shaving running titles, minor dampstaining throughout, title lightly soiled; bound in early twentieth-century brown pebble-grained cloth, gilt border, spine lettered ‘Prières Hebraïques’ in gilt, red manuscript presentation label to upper board (see below); small loss to upper corner of label, extremities very lightly bumped.
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[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]. ספר אני בלב ים ... חלק ראשון
First part of the first and only edition of this work on the Thirteen Principles of Faith and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy by German rabbi Boaz Rothschild, our copy presented to the Rothschild family in England.
Little is known of the author, Rabbi Boaz Raphael Rothschild of Oettingen in Germany, a distant relative of the English branch of the Rothschild family. Our copy, from the Rothschild library at Exbury House in Hampshire, was likely presented to the family in the early twentieth century: a label to the upper board is inscribed ‘A Memory of & us for the high esteemed Family of Rothschild’, although the title gilt to the spine (‘Prières Hebraïques’) perhaps suggests earlier French ownership. Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882–1942) was in 1910 elected to the House of Commons and in 1919 acquired the Mitford estate at Exbury.
Scarce outside the US and Israel; in the UK, we find copies at the British Library, Cambridge, and Leeds.
Vinograd, Fürth 333.
