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

Opening: $300
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium

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.

Ashkenazi Rabbis – Books with Signatures, Dedications and Glosses
Ashkenazi Rabbis – Books with Signatures, Dedications and Glosses