Auction 98 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts, Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Passover Haggadah, with Zera Yehudah commentary, by R. Yehudah Leib of Mainz, with illustrations. Offenbach: Bonaventure de Launoy, 1721. First edition of the commentary.
Includes fine woodcut illustrations.
On front and back endpapers and boards, ownership inscriptions of the Oppenheim family in Hebrew and German from 1787-1815, and signature of "Yaakov Segal son of R. Hirsch Segal of Moravia".
36 leaves. 33 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark stains. Wear. Open tears to title page and other leaves (many tears on last leaf), affecting title frame and text, repaired with paper filling. Early leather binding, with repairs. Wear and damage to binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 142.
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Passover Haggadah, with Judeo-Italian commentary and illustrations. Venice: Bragadin, 1758.
Published in tandem with two other editions with a Ladino commentary.
36 leaves. 23.5 cm. Fair condition. Many dark stains. Very heavy stains to several leaves. Tears and open tears to margins of all leaves and elsewhere, affecting text and illustrations, repaired with paper filling. Elaborate new leather binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 222.
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Illustrations – Amsterdam, 1768
Sefer HaMinhagim, "following the order of creation – from the beginning of the year to the end of the year", with Passover Haggadah, containing many woodcut illustrations. Amsterdam: Leib Zoesmans, 1768.
Contains Havdalah, Kiddush for Shabbat and festivals, blessings after meals and Kiddush HaLevanah, Passover Haggadah and blessing for the first night of the Omer, blessing for the Shofar, order of annulling vows, Chanukah candle-lighting, blessings on the Megillah for Purim, order of circumcision, Zeved HaBat and Pidyon HaBen, wedding psalm and blessings, blessings over pleasures and bedtime reading of Shema.
The text is supplemented by 14 fine woodcut illustrations prepared for this edition, as stated on the title page: "And we added the entire Haggadah… with fine new illustrations…".
The text follows the Sephardic rite. Titles and laws printed mostly in Spanish (in Latin characters).
An interesting advertisement is printed on the last page: "These books of customs and all sorts of books, whether new or old, can be purchased from Mr. Shlomo Levi Maduro, bookseller, residing in Stromarkt(?) street, Amsterdam".
52 leaves. 15.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear. Tears and open tears to margins of title page and additional leaves., affecting text and one of the illustrations, partially restored with paper. New leather binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 252.
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Haggadah LeLeil Shimurim, with Yiddish instructions and illustrations, accurate edition by R. Wolf Heidenheim. Pressburg: Anton Schmid, 1834.
Pocket edition.
With [5] folding illustrated plates.
60 leaves, [5] illustrated plates. Width greater than length. Approx. 12x9 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dark food stains. Light worming to margins of several leaves. New binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 737.
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Sefer HaIkarim by R. Yosef Albo, principles of Jewish faith. Rimini (Italy): [Jeronimo (Gershom son of Moshe) Soncino], 1522.
Copy missing title page and other leaves. Title page supplied by hand, in Sephardic-Italian script (ca. 18th/19th century) by an unidentified writer. On margins, glosses by the same writer, including lengthy glosses with critiques and explanations of the topics discussed in the book. Additional inscriptions by the same writer (mostly in Italian) on front endpaper.
[150] leaves. Missing first three leaves (including title page) and penultimate leaf (with colophon; this leaf was mostly supplied by hand, apart from the colophon). 19.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. First leaf of volume, with illustrated woodcut, trimmed on margins, bordering text, slightly affecting text on verso. Some tears and open tears, and light worming, slightly affecting text, partially repaired with paper. Inscriptions deleted with ink on first leaf. Early parchment binding, damaged (spine mostly detached).
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Hilchot Rav Alfas, with commentaries and the Tosefta, a three-parts set. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1521-1522. Three parts in four volumes (two incomplete copies of the first part, partially complementing each other).
First edition of the Tosefta, printed according to the order of tractates after the Rif pages of each tractate. This order is kept in printed editions to this day.
Second complete edition of the Rif, following the first complete edition printed in Constantinople, 1509.
In the second and third parts, in the margins, numerous glosses from several writers, mostly in Italian script (many of them trimmed). These glosses are characteristic of the use of the Rif in Italy, following the decree against Jewish books, which began with the burning of the Talmud in Rome on Rosh Hashanah 1553.
During those years, the study and printing of the Talmud were prohibited, but the books of the Rif were allowed for use. As a result, the main focus of study of Italian scholars during those years was in the Rif books, on which they tried to reconstruct the words of the Talmudic sages, based on the books of the Rishonim and various sources.
The first book composed then on the Rif was "Shiltei Hagiborim", which was first printed in the present edition. However, many books by Italian scholars were composed during that period on the margins of the Rif pages (on the decree against sacred Jewish books in Italy, see at length: Mavo L'Chiddushei R. Moshe Kazis, Machon Yerushalayim, 1888; E. Ya'ari, Burning of the Talmud in Italy; M. Benayahu, The Hebrew Printing Press in Cremona).
On the last page of the first copy of the first part, signature of the censor Antonio Francesco Enriques d'urbino, from 1687, and signature of the censor Pietro Martire (undated).
On the last page of the second part, signature of the censor Giovanni Domenico Vistorini from 1609. On the verso, signature of the censor Hippolitus Ferrarensis, from 1601. In this part, on leaf 592b, ownership inscription of "Eliezer Enten of Bodrogkeresztúr. On the last page, several signatures and ownership inscriptions: "R. Shlomo of Gam...[?]", "Avraham Katz Roth, student of…. R. Shmuel Ehrenfeld", "Belongs to the Chevra of Bachurim of the holy community of Margareten… the fifth district of Vienna". In the second copy of the first part, a bookplate of the collector and researcher Elkan Nathan Adler. Ownership signatures in the same volume: "…Yosef Mordechai...", and more.
Censorship expurgations in various places in ink and by scraping of ink.
Four volumes, including two incomplete copies of the first part, partially complementing each other. First part (first copy): 2-5, 7-34, 36-98, [187]-224, 226-230, 232-247, 249-398 leaves. Missing title page and leaves 6, 35, 99-186, 225, 231, 248, 399. Detached leaves 11-16 included (leaves 11-12 damaged, with large open tears). First part (second copy): 2-229 leaves. Missing title page and leaves 230-399. Leaves 185-192 bound out of place, after leaf 200. Second part: 402-454, 456-594, 596-597, 599-759, 761-780, [1] leaves. Missing title page and leaves 455, 595, 598. Third part: 367, [369]-392 leaves. Missing leaf 368, and missing 6 final leaves, with the book "Sha'arei Shevuot". An additional copy (damaged and detached) of leaf 3 is included. Approx. 32-37 cm. Condition varies between volumes. Second and third parts in overall fair condition. First copy of the first part and some leaves in the second copy of this part in fair-poor condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of dampness (with mold marks), and dark ink stains. Large, dark and severe stains on many leaves in the first copy of the first part. Extensive wear. Many large open tears in various places (especially in both copies of the first part), with significant damage to text (in several leaves most of the leaf is missing), partially restored with paper. Many open tears to the title page of the third part, with significant damage to the title frame, restored with paper filling. Detached leaves and gatherings (in both copies of the first part many leaves are detached). Worming with damage to text, some with extensive worming. Old bindings (not uniform). One of the volumes has a particularly worn binding, without spine.
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Beurim, supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah by R. Yisrael Isserlein, author of Terumat HaDeshen. Venice: Marco Antonio Giustiniani, 1544. Second edition.
On p. 19a, gloss (trimmed) in Ashkenazic script.
24 leaves. 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Margins of last leaf reinforced with paper. Close trimming, affecting headers of one leaf. New leather binding.
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Targum Jonathan of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, Cantica Canticorum & Ecclesiastes Salomonis, with Latin translation; with Ma'amar HaKina ["Lament Essay"] – a lament in Hebrew, by Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs, on the death of his teacher, the scholar Sebastian Münster. Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1553.
The Aramaic text of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes in Targum Jonathan, with facing Latin translation, page by page.
The second part of the book (with a separate title page, printed right to left) is Ma'amar HaKina, including a lament on the death of the Christian scholar Sebastian Münster in 1552, written by his student Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs (1511-1575), a mathematician, astronomer and Hebraist.
On the flyleaf before the title page of Ma'amar HaKina, is a handwritten dedication by R. Jacob Koppel Dushinsky, on one of the endpapers appears the stamp of R. Dushinsky.
R. Dr. Jacob Koppel Dushinsky (1878-1954), son of Rabbi Dov Ber Dushinsky, rabbi of Námestovo (son-in-law of Rabbi Yechezkel Reich, rabbi of Bánovce nad Bebravou (Banowitz), son of R. Jacob Koppel Charif, rabbi of Vrbové, author of "Chiddushei Yaavetz"). He studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, served as rabbi of Keszthely in western Hungary, and later moved to London. He published several articles and historical and Torah studies in "HaTzofeh LeBeit Yisrael" and other platforms.
[16], 285, [3] pages, [2] blank leaves; [52] pages. Approx. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor wear. Open tears to four leaves (large tear to one of the leaves), affecting text, repaired with paper. Original parchment binding, with minor blemishes.
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Shaar HaGemul, on faith in the world-to-come, and in the resurrection of the dead and in reward and punishment, by the Ramban, Ferrara: Avraham ibn Oshaki, 1556.
The renowned letter which the Ramban sent to his son from Jerusalem is printed on the final leaf. Colophon in the verso of final leaf (date of printing appearing on the title page is the month of Tamuz 1556, however the date of completion printed on the colophon is Tishrei 1557).
Oshaki's printer's devise appears in the center of the title page and on the colophon: a framed illustration of an astrolabe with verses from the Bible.
26 leaves. 21.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Open tears to title pages and to several more leaves, affecting the frame of the title page, repaired with paper (the frame was completed by hand). Extensive worming to title page and to most of the leaves, primarily to the inner margins of the book, affecting the frame of the title page and the text, most repaired with paper. Early parchment binding (rebound with new endpapers).
Provenance: Genazim, Auction 8, December 2020, Lot 127.
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Sefer Keritot, Talmudic methodology, by R. Shimshon of Chinon. Cremona: Vincenzo Conti, 1557.
Second edition with corrections. The publisher writes on the title page that the previous edition (Constantinople, 1516) was flawed, and the current edition is corrected and emended.
Ownership inscriptions on title page, including one (deleted) in early Ashkenazic script. On p. 58a, ownership inscription in early Ashkenazic script.
Censorship inscriptions on last leaf (date of one trimmed).
73 leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. New, elaborate leather binding.
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Tehillim, with commentary by R. Ovadiah Sforno. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, 1586. First edition.
On verso of title page, poem in praise of the author by R. Shmuel Archivolti.
92 leaves. 18.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark dampstains and wax stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text in several places, partially repaired with paper (sometimes over text). Large open tear on leaf 45 (most of leaf missing). Light worming. New binding.
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Mifalot Elohim, philosophical discourses on the creation of the world and faith, by R. Yitzchak Abarbanel. Venice: Zuan (Giovanni) di Gara, [1592]. First edition.
The book was printed based on a manuscript belonging to R. Menachem Azariah (the Rama) of Fano, as the title page states.
At top of title page, ownership inscription in Ashkenazic script dating to the time of the book's printing (middle damaged).
96 leaves. 19.5 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears and open tears to title page and several other leaves, slightly affecting text of one leaf. New binding.
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