Shevet Me'Yisrael, Psalms with the Shevet Me'Yisrael commentary, by Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael ben Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Magid of the Kremenets community. Zhovkva, [1772]. Illustrated title page.
The author of the commentary, Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael ben Rabbi Zvi Hirsh, a Torah scholar from Brody, author of Agudat Ezov and Sfat Emet.
Many approbations by leading Galicia and Podolia rabbis – Rabbi Chaim Cohen Rappaport of Lvov, Rabbi Shlomo of Chelm - author of Merkevet HaMishne, Rabbi Meir [Margaliot, the Besht's disciple] and his son Rabbi Shaul of Komarno, Rabbi Meir of Kostentin [Rabbi Ya'akov Emden's son], and others.
[2], 26; 19; 2-18, 20, 22-24; 28, [2] leaves. 33.3 cm. Good condition, stains, leaves cut with damage to the titles. Worn binding.

Babylonian Talmud, Sulzbach edition [1755-1763]. Printed by Meshulam Zalman ben Aharon [Frankel].
14 volumes. A complete set, with the exception of Tractate Shekalim of the Yerushalmi Talmud. • Volume of Tractate Nidah (Sulzbach 1767) is a replacement from the second edition printed in Sulzbach (1766-1770). • Double copies of the following tractates: Volumes Shabbat-Eruvin and Bava Batra-Avoda Zara.
Part of the words on the title pages of the first tractate of every volume are in red ink [with the exception of Tractate Nidah].
In many tractates are ownership inscriptions [from the 1810s] of "Two brothers R' Itzik and…Pfeifer [Chaim Yisrael] Schiff". Belongs to "Moshe Schiff", and to "…R' Leib Schiff". Most of the volumes have long inscriptions and signatures of "Moshe [ben Chaim Yisrael] Hechheimer" who was "the great-grandson of the Chaver R' Leib Schiff". Among the inscriptions are detailed lists at the beginning of each tractate, documenting the date he began and concluded each tractate. Additional signatures and ownership inscriptions of "Aharon Ber ben R' Binyamin of Heidingsfeld", "Leib Treyosh…"etc.
At the beginning of the Shabbat-Eruvin tractate is a long interesting ownership inscription about the fate of these Talmud volumes during the 1848 "Spring of Nations" revolutions, containing interesting details of the history of German families written by R' Moshe Hechheimer: "For a memorial, I Moshe ben R' Chaim Yisrael was living in the village of Unterschiff with ten other families, also a cantor and a shochet, and [in the village] was a synagogue and a mikveh. The time came that the masses revolted against the kingdom…March 1848…mobs came to Erlin… and want to annihilate and massacre all the Jews in Eschiff and plunder all their possessions, and they broke the barrels of wine…and spilled them out like water and whatever they did not plunder they broke and threw about. This Talmud with all the Shas with other books, I have found…in the street, G-d has saved us with the entire congregation from their hands. My family Hechheimer have come to live here in Mergentheim, Moshe with my brother Shimon with my Uncle Itzik and his father-in-law Aharon Dreifuss, the Oppenheimer family traveled from Mannheim… and two elder needy men lived alone in Schiff, called themselves David Haas and Avraham Reich…Moshe Hechheimer ben R’ Chaim Yisrael Pfeifer…”. Further on, he writes his genealogy, four generations back.
14 volumes. Volume 1: Brachot Zera’im. Volumes 2-3: Shabbat-Eruvin [two copies]. Vol 4: Pesachim-Betzah-Chagiga-Moed Katan. Volume 5: Rosh Hashana-Yoma-Succah-Ta’anit-Megillah. Volume 6: Yevamot-Ketuvot-Kiddushin. Volume 7: Gittin-Nedarim-Nazir-Sotah. Volume 8: Bava Kama-Bava Metzia. Volume 9-10: Bava Batra-Avoda Zara [two copies] (Tractate Avoda Zara was printed without the title page and without the name of the tractate at the top of the pages, because of the censor). Volume 11: Sanhedrin-Makot-Shevuot-Horayot-Eduyot-Avot and the small tractates. Volume 12: Zevachim-Menachot-Bechorot. Volume 13: Chulin-Arachin-Temura-Kritot-Me’ila-Kinim-Tamid-Midot. Volume 14: Nidah-Taharot.
All the tractates are complete, with the exception of Bava Kama which is missing the title page and leaves 2-3 (begins with Leaf 4). 34 cm. Varied condition among the volumes (good-fair). Contemporary ancient bindings (leather-covered wood), with metal clasps or clasp remnants, some whole and some damaged.
This edition of the Talmud was the focus of a sharp polemic with the Props printers from Amsterdam who claimed that they had received exclusive rights to print the Talmud in the approbations that they had received upon printing their Talmud and that this edition is an encroachment of these rights. This matter led to severe prohibitions of the Va’ad Arba Artzot to read these tractates and instructions to have them burned.

Mishnayot with the Rambam and Rabbi Ovadia of Bartenura's commentaries, Seder Kodashim and Taharot. [Venice 1606, Zanito Zaniti printing].
Missing leaves replaced in Yemen, with colophon signed by the scribe "teacher of children" Mari Shalom Omri. Dated the 20th of Kislev 1866. On the reverse side of the title page is a handwritten inscription of the "great wonder" which took place in the heavens on Wednesday night the 6th of Kislev (November 14) 1866: "…We saw all the stars, large and small, moving in the sky like lightening from all four directions and there was a great light like lightening and some fell to the earth like rain and were annihilated. G-d should show us wonders and perform good signs". [a testimony about the exceptional meteor shower (Leonids) that took place at that date and was recorded by astronomers of the time]
[1, 20 handwritten leaves]. Leaves 106-131 printed, [3 handwritten leaves], Leaves 135-168 printed. [2 handwritten leaves], Leaves 164, 169, [1], 170-295 printed, [6 handwritten leaves]. (Originally Volume 2 begins with Seder Nezikin: Leaves 1-168, 164, 169, [1] 170-302 leaves). Approximately 30 cm. Fair condition, stains and wear, tears with lack to several leaves. Coarse adorned leather binding, Yemenite work, worn, (completed with ancient manuscript leaves of Sefer HaMitzvot L'HaRambam in its Arabic source).

Three volumes of tractates of the Babylonian and Yerushalmi Talmud, in a small format, printed for students' use or for study while traveling and not part of a full edition of the Talmud.
• Babylonian Talmud – Tractate Pesachim, with Rashi and Tosfot and Rabbeinu Asher commentaries. Amsterdam, [1726]. Stamps of the Beit Midrash Yechiel Wallach in Hamburg.
• Yerushalmi Talmud, Tractate Shekalim, with commentary. Amsterdam, 1727.
• Babylonian Talmud – Tractate Rosh Hashana, with Rashi and Tosfot commentaries and Chidushei HaMaharsha. Zhovkva, [1804]. "Printed in a small volume to make study easier since one can place it in his bag during the Days of Awe, even when travelling". Each leaf has the same text as the regular editions.
3 small format volumes (approximately 18-20 cm.). Varied condition among the volumes, damages to several leaves, tears with lack, worm marks, stains and wear.