Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Assorted Collection of Books – Printed in Amsterdam – 1700s
Opening: $300
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Assorted collection of books concerned with various subjects, printed in Amsterdam in the 1700s, most in first editions:
• Menorat HaMaor by R. Yitzchak Aboab, with Nefesh Yehudah commentary by R. Moshe Frankfurt. Amsterdam, 1700. First edition of the commentary. Several leaves lacking. Signature on title page.
• Leket HaKemach, digest of responsa and halachic rulings according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch, Parts I-II, by R. Moshe Chagiz. Amsterdam, [1707]. First edition of these parts. Original parchment binding. Ex libris label of the scholar Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz. Stamp of R. Yaakov Eskolsky (1875-1931), Rabbi of Kazhan-Haradok, Russia (now Belarus) and later Scranton, Pennsylvania and the Slutsk and Bialystok communities in New York. Editor of HaMitzpah periodical.
• Kavanot HaAgadot – Kaftor VaFerach, by R. Yaakov Luzzatto. Amsterdam, [1709]. Second edition. On title page, stamp of Reshit Chochmah society, Amsterdam.
• Divrei David, responsa by R. David Meldola, including responsa by R. Aryeh Leib, Rabbi of Amsterdam, son-in-law of the Chacham Tzvi. Amsterdam, [1753]. First edition. Includes notable approbation by the Pnei Yehoshua. Signature on title page: "Gavriel Ashkenazi" (perhaps R. Gavriel Ashkenazi, rabbi and dayan in Aleppo in the latter half of the 18th century).
• Darchei HaGemara, by R. Yitzchak Canpanton. With Hanhagat VeLimud HaTalmidim and Darchei Yesod HaLimud by R. David Meldola. Amsterdam, [1754]. First editions of the books by R. David Meldola. Gloss on one leaf in first book.
• Bigdei Yesha, commentary on the Mordechai and Talmudic novellae – Seder Moed, by R. Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz (the Shlah). Amsterdam, [1757]. First edition. Notable printed advertisement on last leaf.
• Minchat Ani and Minchat Kohen, Talmudic novellae relating to the Torah portions by R. Yitzchak Zelig Mann. Amsterdam, [1769]. Only edition, rare. Ownership inscriptions on both sides of leaf 2.
7 books. Size and condition Varies. Good to fair condition. Stains. Tears. Worming to several books. Old bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.