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Sefer HaShorashim, the second part of the Michlol by R. David Kimchi (the Radak). Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1529.
The last leaf contains two poems praising this edition, composed by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi (Bachur): "…this work was printed six times… but this printing is recognized for its beauty and correctness…".
Censorship authorizations (in Italian) on penultimate leaf, including inscription in Hebrew: "the derogatory words about pagans do not refer to Christians…", followed by the signature of the censor Girolamo da Durazzano (this inscription was presumably written by an apostate censor).
Censorship expurgations in several places (in some cases, the original text was deleted and replaced in handwriting).
[2] pages, 5-570 columns, [2] pages. 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition, first leaves in fair condition. Stains. Open tears and worming, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper. Large open tears to title page and final leaf, repaired with paper. Open tears to censorship expurgations on one leaf, due to ink erosion. New leather binding, with minor defects.
Sefer Tanchuma, Yelamdenu, Midrash on the Five Books of the Torah. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Second edition.
Many glosses in Italian script (some trimmed).
Censorship inscription on p. 97b. Censorship expurgations on several leaves.
97 leaves. Lacking final leaf. 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition, final leaves in fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Open tears, repaired with paper (some slightly covering text). Large open tears to final leaves, with significant damage to text, repaired with paper. Handwritten inscription (in pen) on title page. New binding.
![Sefer Michlol, grammar of the Holy Tongue, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, annotated by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/324_1.jpg "Sefer Michlol – Venice, 1545 – Glosses of the Apostate Immanuel Tremel")
![Sefer Michlol, grammar of the Holy Tongue, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, annotated by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/324_2.jpg "Sefer Michlol – Venice, 1545 – Glosses of the Apostate Immanuel Tremel")
Sefer Michlol, grammar of the Holy Tongue, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, annotated by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice: Daniel Bomberg for Cornelio Adelkind, 1545.
Small format. A large format edition was printed concurrently.
Signature on the title page. Many marginal glosses in Latin and Hebrew, in an early hand from the time of printing. The glosses were handwritten by the Italian apostate Immanuel Tremellius. Some of the Hebrew glosses open with the words: "So said Immanuel Tremellius".
Immanuel Tremellius (1510-1580), Jewish apostate, priest and missionary. He converted to Catholicism, Protestantism, and eventually to Calvinism. Professor of Hebrew in the universities of Strasbourg, Cambridge and Heidelberg. He wrote several works, including a missionary work in Hebrew, later printed in Madras (present day: Chennai, India) for missionizing Indian Jews.
239, 238-268, [1] leaves. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains. Wear to title page. Original parchment binding. Minor defects to binding. Bookplate.
Chazut Kashah, on the fundamentals of faith and the attitude to philosophy, by R. Yitzchak Arama – the Baal HaAkedah. Sabbioneta: Partners for Tobias Foa, 1551. First edition.
30 leaves. Without leaves 31-38 of indexes, lacking in most copies. 18.5 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness. Open tears to title page, affecting engraved border. Leaves trimmed with slight damage to text. New binding.
![Issur VeHeter, by R. Yonah Ashkenazi of Regensburg. Ferrara: Abraham ibn Usque, [1555]. First edition.Title page states that](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/326.jpg "Issur VeHeter – Ferrara, 1555 – First Edition")
Issur VeHeter, by R. Yonah Ashkenazi of Regensburg. Ferrara: Abraham ibn Usque, [1555]. First edition.
Title page states that the book was authored by R. Yonah (the book was occasionally misattributed to Rabbenu Yonah Gerondi). This book, which is also known as Issur VeHeter HaAroch, was authored by R. Yonah son of R. Isserl Ashkenazi, a Torah scholar of Regensburg, and dayan in the Beit Din of R. Yisrael Bruna. R. Yonah was the disciple and mechutan of R. Yisrael Isserlein, author of Terumat HaDeshen. Issur VeHeter HaAroch became one of the primary sources of Halachic rulings on Kashrut for Ashkenazi Jews.
Usque's printer's device at center of title page.
Stamp on third leaf of R. Benzion Wesel Rabbi of Brașov and Turda (1864-1938), leading rabbi in his times, head of the Orthodox Bureau of Transylvanian rabbis.
Trimmed ownership inscription on title page.
[174] leaves. 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains. Worming, affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Open tears, affecting title page border and text, repaired with paper (small parts of border completed by hand). Marginal paper repairs to many leaves at beginning and end of book, and to several other leaves (possibly supplied from a different copy). New leather binding.
The present copy includes the final two leaves of errata, which are lacking in many copies.
Two books from the 16th century bound together:
• Responsa of the Maharik – R. Yosef Colon. Cremona: Vincenzo Conti, 1557.
Bound with:
• Responsa of the Ralbach – R. Levi ibn Habib. Venice: printer not indicated, 1565. First edition.
Two woodcut title pages.
Handwritten inscription on the title pages of both volumes.
Poetic ownership inscription on the front endpaper, signed by R. Eizik Nördlingen, eldest brother of R. Yosef Yuzpa Nördlingen author of Yosef Ometz. Additional ownership inscription.
Several glosses in Ashkenazic script.
Two books in one volume. Responsa of the Maharik: [12], 171, [1] leaves. Responsa of the Ralbach: [4], 209, [1], 328 leaves. Lacking final two leaves of errata. Extra copies of leaves 289 and 294. Leaves 290 and 293 (marked 286) provided from a different copy (detached, cut differently). 30 cm. Condition varies, first book in fair-good condition, second book in overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness, with mold to many leaves of first book. Tears, including tears to title page of first book, affecting border and text. Worming. Faded stamps. Early wood and leather binding, with clasp remnants. Wear and defects to binding, tear to spine.
Sefer HaChinuch, on the 613 commandments. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, 1600-1601. Second edition.
Signature on title page.
4, 6-28, 33-228 leaves. Lacking 5 leaves: 5, 29-32 (partially replaced in handwriting). 19.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text. Open tears (final leaves with many open tears), affecting text, repaired with paper (with handwritten text replacement). Title page mounted on paper for reinforcement. Marginal paper repairs to several leaves. Binding old and damaged, front board detached.
Large collection of title pages and leaves from a variety of books, printed in various periods and places, 16th-18th centuries. Signatures, dedications and inscriptions on many of the leaves.
The leaves include:
• Title page and final leaf of Mishneh Torah by the Rambam, with Kesef Mishneh by R. Yosef Karo. Venice: Alviso Bragadin, 1575. Vol. IV of the first edition of Kesef Mishneh, which was mostly printed in the author's lifetime, though on this title page, R. Yosef Karo is mentioned as deceased. Various inscriptions and signatures.
• Title page – Midrash Shmuel on Tractate Avot, by R. Shmuel de Uçeda. Venice: Zuan di Gara, 1579. First edition. Leaf damaged. Signatures. On verso, poem forming acrostic, in Italian script.
• Title page and two leaves of preface – Yad HaMelech on Megillat Esther, by R. Shmuel Valerio. Venice: Zuan di Gara, 1586. Only edition. Ownership inscription on the title page.
• Title page – Tzon Kedoshim, on Order Kodashim, by R. Avraham Chaim Schorr. Wandsbek: Yisrael son of Avraham, [1729]. First edition. Signature of R. Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf HaLevi Boskowitz (1740-1818), prominent Hungarian rabbi, son and disciple of the Machatzit HaShekel.
• Title pages of books printed in Amsterdam, Mantua, Berlin, Fürth, Jeßnitz, Frankfurt an der Oder, Brno, Karlsruhe, Lviv, Salonika, and other places. See Hebrew description for more details.
30 items, comprising over 40 leaves. Size and condition vary. Some with defects and open tears.
Tur Even HaEzer, with Beit Yosef. Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa, 1553. First edition, printed in the lifetime of the author R. Yosef Karo.
Ownership inscriptions on the endpaper, title page and first leaves. Two brief handwritten glosses.
232 leaves. 33.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition, first leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears. Worming and some open tears to first leaves (repaired with paper). Mold and tear to title page, affecting text (repaired with paper). Early wood and leather binding, damaged, with open tears to spine.
Variant. Typographic variations to leaf 74 – 60 lines on recto and 53 lines on verso, compared to 57 lines on each side of the leaf in other copies.
![Tur Orach Chaim, with Beit Yosef. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, [1589].Fourth edition, based on the third edition (Venice,](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale93/331.jpg "Tur Orach Chaim – Venice, 1589 – First Edition with Numeration of the")
Tur Orach Chaim, with Beit Yosef. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, [1589].
Fourth edition, based on the third edition (Venice, 1566). In the present edition, the laws are numbered for the first time, both with a small letter within the text, and with a large letter in the margins, for laws added from other sources.
Various signatures and ownership inscriptions (mostly deleted) in an old script. Late signature (in pen) of R. Elchanan Moshe Kunstadt (1918-1994; dean of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem). Several brief glosses and emendations.
24, 460 leaves. 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. A few tears and open tears, slightly affecting text in center of title page (repaired in part with paper). Large tear to leaf 161, affecting text. Inscriptions and signatures. Early wood and leather binding, damaged, with open tears.
Responsa Noda BiYehuda, Mahadura Kama, Parts I and II, by R. Yechezkel HaLevi Segal Landau Rabbi of Prague. Prague: Moses Katz, under the management of his grandson Israel Jiteles, by R. Zerach Eidelitz, [1776-1777]. First edition, printed in the author's lifetime. Two parts in one volume, with divisional title page for part II.
The book was printed in stages, beginning in Adar 1776 and ending in Tevet 1777.
Ownership inscription on the title page. Deleted signature on final page.
[2], 86, [9] leaves; [1], 157 leaves. 32.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Worming. Open tears, including large open tears to title page of part I and first leaves, affecting border, repaired in part with paper (border completed by hand, in ink). Title page of part I presumably supplied from a different copy. Stamps. New binding.
Noda BiYehuda, Mahadura Tinyana, Parts I and II, by R. Yechezkel Landau. Prague: Franz Sommer, 1810-1811. Two parts in two volumes. First edition.
In both volumes, signatures of R. Avraham son of R. Shimshon of Dreznitz (served as rabbi in a Moravian town in the early 19th century].
Glosses in both volumes, including two lengthy glosses (one in each vol.).
Two volumes. Incomplete copies, with leaves torn out in middle. Vol. I: [6], [1], 4-5, 7-14, 16-23, 25-26, 30-31, 33-35, 38-42, 44-64, 66-68, 71-76, 79, 81-85, 87-116, 118-132, 134-144, 146-151, 153-161, 163-170 leaves. Lacking 22 leaves: 3, 6, 15, 24, 27-29, 32, 36-37, 43, 65, 69-70, 77-78, 80, 86, 133, 145, 152, 152 [2 leaves originally foliated 152]. Vol. II: [1], 69, 71-83, 85-116, 118-152, 156-158, 150-159, 159-169, [1] leaves. Lacking 6 leaves: 70, 84, 117, 153-155. Leaves 150-159 bound before leaf 159 [second], instead of at end of book. Approx. 33-34 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness, with many mold stains. Worming, affecting text. Many tears, including large open tears, affecting text and title page borders, repaired in part with paper. New bindings.