Solet Minchah Belulah. Work on the Torah, on Psalms, on Talmudic Aggadah, and Ethics of the fathers , by the doctor and scientist Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Shnaber [Altona] 1797. First edition. Handwritten comments.
Specifications: [4], 76 leaves, 18 cm.
The author was a student of Rabbi David Frankel’s [author of Korban HaEdah al HaYerushalmi ] and served as rabbi and doctor in London, and taught medical students, he was known as Dr. Loninson. He authored a number of medical works, and was known for Tochachat Megillah on Ecclesiastes in which he criticizes Moses Mendelsohn’s words. On the last page, the printer writes that the author gave him the work just before his passing, as well as writing details about the author and his works.
Unique Features: Handwritten comments from the period of the book’s printing, “and I wrote the opposite there …” appears in the gloss on leaf 40, apparently the writer authored book(s).
Condition: Fine. Blemishes in the lower corners of the last pages. New binding.