Auction 93 Part 2 - Ancient Books, Chassidic and Kabbalistic Books, Manuscripts and Letters
Collection of Books – Printed in Prague – 17th-19th Centuries – First Editions – Signatures and Ownership Inscriptions
Fifteen books printed in Prague in the 17th-19th centuries, mostly first editions, with signatures and ownership inscriptions:
• Chiddushei Halachot by the Maharsha. Prague, 1692.
• Chiddushei HaRa'ah on Ketubot. Prague, [1722]. First edition.
Ownership inscription attesting that the book was borrowed from R. Moshe Kortshiner, dayan in Nikolsburg (corresponded with the Chatam Sofer, d. 1830)
• Chiddushei HaRashba on Bava Kama. Prague, [1734].
• Torat HaBayit HaAroch on Niddah, with Bedek HaBayit and Mishmeret HaBayit. Prague, [1735].
• Geon Tzvi by R. Tzvi Hirsh Horowitz. Prague-[Wilhelmsdorf], [1737-1738]. First edition.
• Mor Dror, by R. Mordechai Deutsch. Prague, [1738]. First edition. Lacking title page of Part I and final three leaves of Kuntres Acharon.
• Maamar Kadishin, by R. Kim Kadish son of Kim Kadish. Prague, [1764]. First edition.
Copy of R. Avigdor Yehuda HaLevi Leventhal (1837-1889), prominent Chassidic Tzadik in Poland, rabbi of Błaszki and Koło.
• Or LaYesharim, by R. Avraham Moshe Zerach Eidlitz. Prague, [1785]. First edition.
• Horah Gaver, by R. Betzalel Ronsburg. Prague, [1802]. First edition.
• Rashba, novellae on Tractate Shevuot. Prague, 1808.
• Derech HaYashar, by R. Moshe Yosef Shapira. Prague, 1810. First edition.
• Kanfei Yonah, by R. Yonah Landsofer. Prague, 1812. First edition.
• Seder Mishneh, Part I, by R. Wolf Boskowitz. Prague, 1820. First edition.
Stamps of R. Meshulam Zushe Yitzchak Halberstam (1884 – perished in the Holocaust 1944; assistant of his father Rebbe Shalom Eliezer of Ratzfert).
• Zera Kodesh, Part I, by R. Shmuel Freund. Prague, 1827. First edition. No other parts were published.
Ownership inscription of R. Shlomo Langsfelder author of Maggid LeYaakov (1810-1895), disciple of the Chatam Sofer, rabbi of Tachov.
• Shenei Ofarim, by R. Tzvi Hirsh Broide. Prague, 1825.
15 books. Size and condition vary. New bindings. The books were not thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.