Auction 96 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts
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Year-round siddur according to the Bohemian, Polish and Moravian rite, edited by R. Shlomo Zalman London, with Tehillim and Maamadot. Vienna: Anton Schmid, 1793.
Fine original leather binding, with many gilt decorations. Inscription on front binding: "S. V. M".
Inscriptions on front endpaper on passing of the writer's mother and father, dated 1843 and 1862.
[8], 131, 133-184; 8, 10-59, 70-138, 157-193, [1] leaves. Missing leaf 132 of first sequence (blank leaf bound in its place). Tehillim: 88 leaves. Maamadot: 60 leaves. 16.5 cm. Some leaves dark. Good-fair condition. Stains. Several leaves loose and partially detached. Marginal tears to title page and several other leaves, repaired with paper. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Damage to binding.
Rare siddur. Undocumented in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, and does not appear in NLI catalog.
Complete set. Mikraot Gedolot edition in large, impressive format, printed by Zuan di Gara in his first years as printer in Venice.
Censorship expurgations in several places.
Two censors' signatures on all volumes.
Four volumes. Vol. I (Torah): [6], 228 leaves. Vol. II (Neviim Rishonim): [1], 234-441 leaves. Vol. III (Neviim Acharonim): [1], 442-685 leaves. Vol. IV (Ketuvim): [1], 688-926; 7, [1]; 66 leaves. Approx. 39 cm. Overall good-fair condition, some leaves in several places in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark inkstains. Wear to some leaves. Worming, affecting text. Tears, including open tears in several places, affecting text, partially repaired with paper. Several leaves detached. Early leather bindings. Heavy wear and much damage to bindings (some spines missing, others with large tears).
Provenance: Collection of Prof. Eliyahu Shmuel Hartom.
Five Books of the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel, 1630-1631.
Special copy with margins enlarged by mounted paper and blank leaves added alternately between part of the leaves. Several leaves at the beginning of the book and additional places filled in by hand, with a translation of the verses into English.
On verso of title page, handwritten inscription in English of the title of a work, "The Evangelical Interpreter: or an Interpretation of the Book of Genesis with Practical Observations", and several lines from the beginning of the book.
Printed without vocalization, in two columns. Every fifth verse numbered. Divisional title pages for Neviim Rishonim and Neviim Acharonim. One of the only Bible editions at the time printed by Jews. Two columns per page, like the Bible edition used by R. Aryeh Levin for Goral HaGra, following a special tradition transmitted from the Vilna Gaon.
465, 486-612 pages. 24.5 cm. Good-fair condition. All leaves mounted on paper with wide margins, cut to fit the printed leaves, enlarging the margins. In part of the book, blank leaves bound between leaves. Stains, including many stains to title page. Light worming. Detached leaves and gatherings. Old binding, with leather spine and corners. Wear and damage to binding.
First edition of Metzudot commentary authored by father and son, which became the most important and famous commentary on Neviim and Ketuvim. The present edition was printed by the son, R. Yechiel, and was the first complete edition of the commentary on Neviim and Ketuvim (commentaries on some books had been previously printed, and are reprinted here with revisions and additions).
At end of third volume, large plate (folded) with map of the future Temple and Eretz Israel, with tribal portions in the time of Joshua and in the future (the maps do not appear in all copies).
Signatures and ownership inscriptions of Hartom family.
Five volumes. Volume I (Neviim Rishonim): 44, [1], 45-87; [1], 91-300 leaves. Volume II (Yeshayahu and Yirmiyahu): 235 leaves. Volume III (Yechezkel and Trei Asar): [1], 228 leaves + folding map. Volume IV (Tehillim, Mishlei and Iyov): 120, 122, 124-236 leaves. Missing 4 leaves: 121, 123, 237-238. Misfoliation of leaves 2-3. Volume V (Daniel, Ezra-Nechemiah and Divrei HaYamim): 33, [1], 33-185 leaves. 17.5 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Stains. Wear to some leaves. Open tears affecting text of several leaves (including title page of volume IV), partially repaired with paper. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper. Close trimming, affecting text of some leaves. Tear to map, repaired with paper to verso, without loss. Close trimming of margins of map, slightly affecting text. Original bindings (uniform), with leather spines. Much wear and damage to bindings (tears to spines, some reinforced with tape).
Provenance: Collection of Prof. Eliyahu Shmuel Hartom
Meturgeman, Aramaic-Hebrew dictionary and explanation of the Aramaic words in the Targums of the Torah, by R. Eliyahu HaLevi Ashkenazi (R. Eliyahu Bachur). Isny (Germany): Paulus Fagius, 1541. First edition.
Ownership inscription on title page. Several glosses. Inscriptions on endpaper.
Censorship expurgations in several places (including p. 4a). Signature of censor on penultimate leaf.
[4], 164, [2] leaves. 32.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Marginal tears and open tears to some leaves. Marginal worming to some leaves, slightly affecting text. Loose and detached leaves and gatherings (including title page and colophon page). Old binding, worn and damaged, detached, without spine.
Tanchuma, "called Yelamdenu, Midrash on the Five Books of the Torah". Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Second edition.
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "I, Avraham Pescarolo, purchased this book from R. Yehudah Bachi, Turin". Deleted inscriptions on second leaf of Avraham Pescarolo, dated 1737. (R. Yehudah Bachi named here is perhaps the father of R. Shimshon Bachi the second).
Censorship expurgations on several leaves (including many lines towards the end of Parashat Tzav with a comparison between the Jewish people and the gentiles and apostates).
Signature of censor on last leaf, in Latin and Hebrew (Hebrew portion of signature trimmed).
7, 9-97 leaves. Missing leaf 8, with handwritten replacement. 26 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Worming, repaired with paper. Marginal open tears to title page and several other leaves, affecting text. Title page mounted on thick paper. Close trimming, slightly affecting text on several leaves. Old binding, without spine, worn and damaged.
Mizrachi, supercommentary on Rashi on the Torah by R. Eliyahu Mizrachi. Venice: Daniel Bomberg by Cornelio Adelkind, 1545. Second edition.
On p. 280b is a printed map of Eretz Israel. Colophon on last leaf (trimmed and partially lacking). Blurred and trimmed inscriptions on first and second leaf. Inscriptions on last leaf (on blank page).
Censorship expurgations in several places. Signature of the censor Domenico Gerosolimitano (dated 1598) on last leaf.
2-7, 9-320 leaves. Missing title page and leaf 8. 29.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Wear and creases. Small marginal tears to several leaves. On last three leaves, large open tears, affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming in a few places. Loose and detached leaves and gatherings. Early leather binding, worn and damaged, missing spine (both parts of binding loose and mostly detached).
Two grammatical books printed in the 1540s in one volume:
• Sefer Michlol, Hebrew grammar, by R. David Kimchi – the Radak, with annotations by R. Eliyahu Ashkenazi [Bachur]. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1545].
Comprised of three parts ("she'arim") – Grammar of Verbs, Grammar of Nouns and Grammar of Particles.
Large format. A small-format edition was printed concurrently.
• Sefer HaShorashim, Hebrew roots, by R. David Kimchi (the Radak) with annotations by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Venice: Giustiniani, 1546-1548.
The title page is dated Cheshvan 1546, but the printing was only completed in Adar 1548, as stated in R. Eliyahu Bachur's poem at the end of the book.
Title page also contains Latin title: "Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae".
On front endpaper – inscriptions in Italian script on lending of the book.
In Sefer HaShorashim – tens of glosses in Italian script. The glosses include original content, analysis and critiques of the author's statements, as well as comments and expansions. In several places, the writer refers to his novellae on the Torah, Talmud and Zohar. Possibly, the writer is R. Avraham Segari, Av Beit Din of Casale, posek and kabbalist and a foremost Italian rabbi of the 18th century.
Censorship expurgations to one leaf.
Signatures of the censors Giovanni Domenico Carretto (dated 1610) and Domenico Gerosolimitano (dated 1598) on both sides of last leaf.
Michlol: 69 leaves. Shorashim: [2] pages, 5-548 columns, [1] page. 31 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming and small tears to margins of several leaves. Verso of first book's title page repaired with paper. Handwritten inscriptions of several words inside title frame of second book. Early leather binding, worn and damaged, with open tears to spine.
Six Hebrew grammar books bound together. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1546.
1-4. Dikdukim, four books on Hebrew grammar printed together (each with a divisional title page): Mahalach Shevilei HaDaat by R. Moshe Kimchi, with the commentary of R. Eliyahu Bachur; Petach Devarai by an anonymous Sephardic author; Tzachut BeDikduk by R. Avraham ibn Ezra; Moznei Leshon HaKodesh by R. Avraham ibn Ezra.
5. Sefer HaHarkavah by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Including Pirkei Eliyahu by the same author, with a divisional title page (starting from leaf 45).
6. Marpe Lashon by R. Moshe ibn Habib.
Inscriptions and glosses to several leaves. Deleted ownership inscriptions on first title page.
Dikdukim: [4], 8, 10-51, 53-236 leaves. Missing leaf 9 (with handwritten replacement). Sefer HaHarkavah: 83, [1] leaves. Marpe Lashon: [24] leaves. Missing leaf [17] (with handwritten replacement) and last leaf. Approx. 15 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Light wear. Tears, including open tear on first leaf, affecting text. Many handwritten inscriptions on first leaf. Without binding.
Kol Bo, laws and customs. Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1547.
The book was printed anonymously, and the identity of its author was subject to dispute. Today it is considered an early edition of the work Orchot Chaim by R. Aharon HaKohen.
Inscription in Italian script on title page and on endpaper. On endpaper, signatures of Prof. Eliyahu Shmuel Hartom, author of the Cassuto commentary on the Bible.
4, 158 leaves. 28.5 cm. Fair condition, some leaves in middle of book in good-fair condition. Many stains, including large dampstains and dark stains, tears and some open tears, including tears to title page (affecting title frame), partially repaired with paper. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper. Early leather binding. Wear and damage to binding.
Divrei HaYamim LeMalchei Tzarfat UMalchei Beit Ottoman HaTogar (history of the kings of France and the kings of the House of Ottoman the Turk), by R. Yosef HaKohen HaRofe. [Sabbioneta: Tuviah Foa by Cornelio Adelkind, 1553]. First edition, rare.
First edition of the work by R. Yosef HaKohen HaRofe (1496-1575) dealing with the history of Christian and Muslim kings and medieval European peoples, with reference to events affecting Jewish history.
Gregorian dates printed next to the paragraphs in tandem with events described in the text. The book mostly describes events in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Various inscriptions on title page in Hebrew and Italian. Inscriptions in Italian on back endpaper (events and dates from the book).
[40], 41-327 leaves. Missing last leaf. 14.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including many dampstains. Worming in one place on about 40 of the last leaves, affecting text. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Title page and first gathering loose and partially detached. Early leather binding, worn and damaged.
Talmud Bavli, Tractate Eruvin, with commentaries of Rashi, Tosafot, Piskei Tosafot and Rabbeinu Asher (Rosh), with commentary on Mishnah by Rambam. Basel: Ambrosius Frobenius, [1580].
Volume of the Talmud edition printed by the Christian scholar Frobenius from 1578-1581.
Copy of R. Shmuel Hillman, successor of R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz as Rabbi of Metz. On p. 81a, inscription attesting that the book belongs to him: "Belongs to… R. Shmuel Hillman, Rabbi and head of the yeshiva of Mannheim" – R. Shmuel Hillman (d. 1765), leading rabbi of his generation, studied in Prague under R. Avraham Broda together with R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz. He served as Rabbi of Krems an der Donau, Mannheim and Metz. The Noda BiYehudah was his mechutan.
Additional inscriptions in several places. Ownership inscriptions on endpaper and p. 16b of second sequence.
106, 17, 10-11 leaves. Missing last leaf (leaf 12 of last sequence). Leaf 17 of second sequence bound out of place, at end of volume (due to a tear, the leaf is unmarked). 34 cm. Somewhat dark paper. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text, mostly repaired with paper. Worming. Close trimming, bordering glosses printed in margins. Early binding with leather spine. Wear and damage to binding.