Four books, with ancient signatures and ownership inscriptions: · Korban Reshit, responsa and halachic novellae. By Rabbi Yehuda Leib Margaliot, Frankfurt an der Oder, [1778]. On Leaf 2 and on last page are signatures "…David Deutsch" – Rabbi David Deutsch Av Beit Din of Ir-Chadash (Nowe Miasto (1756-1830), author of Ohel David, see Item 218]. · Keter Kehuna, Part 1. By Rabbi Yitzchak Avraham Katz. [Zhovkva, 1805]. Ownership inscription: "Belongs to the great Rabbi Shimon of Kromau" – Rabbi Shimon Oppenheim of Kromau (Moravia), (1753-1851), disciple of the Nodah B'Yehuda, and Dayan in Budapest during the time of the Maharam Mintz, author of Har HaKarmel. · Shemot BaAretz, by Rabbi Moshe Ben Haviv. Karlsruhe, [1766]. Owner's inscription on title page: "Yosef B.Y.C. Feilbogen" – The B.Y.C. Feilbogen family was a famous family of rabbis in Moravia. His son Rabbi Binyamin B.Y.C. Feilbogen printed the book Bnei Yosef (Leipzig, 1872), in memory of his father, Rabbi Yosef B.Y.C. Feilbogen who served for 17 years as Rabbi of the city of Velyki Mezhyrichi (Gross Mezheritch), after he had served for 26 years and Rabbi of Hlukhiv. · Machzik Beracha, Orach Chaim and Yoreh Deah. By the Chida. [Livorna, 1785 – missing title page, damages to several leaves]. On the leaf of introduction is a signed dedication for the city of Tiberias, dated Tevet 1787, by the Tiberias emissary to North Africa, who after two years returned to Eretz Israel and brought the book "from the holy camp of Livorno" [apparently, the book was sent from Livorno, the city in which the author, the Chida resided, to the holy city of Tiberias. We could not decipher the signature of the emissary. In the book Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael no documentation can be found of a Tiberias emissary to North-Africa from 1785-1787. Mentioned on page 631 is the emissary Rabbi Avraham Lev Aryeh who was in 1747 in Livorno on a mission to European countries. See enclosed copy]. On the margin is an Oriental curly signature: “David Ma’aravi”. In Part 2, Leaf 102/b is a gloss signed; “HaTza’ir Y.A.A.”, in which he refers to the words of his grandfather Rabbi C. Abulafia in his book Chanan Elokim. On the last page are curly signatures of “-Y.S.--- Abulafia” [evidently, Rabbi Yosef Shmuel Abulafia of Tiberias, 1845-1894]. 4 books, size and condition vary.

Chiddushei Kiddushin L'HaRashba. Constantinople, 1717. Signature and ownership inscriptions of Nikolsburg sages in the 17th/18th centuries: Signature of Rabbi "Gavriel ---" and of Rabbi "Beresh son of Gavriel" [Rabbi Gavriel Eskeles Av Beit Din of Nikolsbug and Moravia from 1709-1718. His son Rabbi Yissachar Berush Eskeles, son-in-law of Sir Rabbi Samson Wertheimer of Vienna, served as Rabbi of Kremsier and Mainz. After the death of his father, he served as Av Beit Din of Nikolsburg and of Moravia and Hungary during 1718-1753. Ownership inscriptions of Rabbi Falk Beck [a prominent Torah scholar, head of the Nikolsburg community during 1790-1800. His recommendation ensued in the appointment of Rabbi Mordechai Bennet to the Nikolsburg rabbinate]. On the second leaf: Signature of Rabbi "Chaim Teltsch", a Nikolsburg sage, son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai Bennet. 88 leaves, 18 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and stains. New fabric binding.

Zvi Kodesh, novellae on Tractates Berachot, Shabbat and Eruvin, by Rabbi Zvi Hirsh son of R' David of Sokolov (near the Rzeszów community). Sulzbach, 1748. With eight rabbis' approbations [five are rabbis of the Katzenelbogin family]. On the flyleaf is a nice dedication from 1749, in the author's handwriting (square Rashi script), "From the small author Zvi Hirsh son of R' David of Sokolov" – who donated the book to the library of the Italian influential figure Rabbi Yitzchak Galiko, "whom I have seen that his house is wide open, with relief and salvation for all Torah scholars", and he blesses his wife and children: "His modest wife Ms. Esther, like Queen Esther, finds favor in the eyes of all that behold her… and blessing to all their offspring...Amen, so should be His will until one hundred years". 76 leaves. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Slightly dark paper. Wear and light worming. Old binding, non-contemporary. From the library of Prof. Moshe David Cassuto.