Auction 6 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters
viewing at noon
India Printings – Six Books – Attractive Copies
Opening: $1,400
Sold for: $1,750
Including buyer's premium
1. Tractate Avoth. Calcutta, 1844. Hebrew and Arabic in Hebrew letters. Greenish paper. Penned inscription on title-page. Leather binding.
2. The book Chukat HaPesach. Calcutta, 1847. Ya'ari 666, Otzar Hahaggadot 910. With ink-stamp of Rabbi David ben Siliman Sasson of Bombay. Worn pages with slight tears. Rebound.
3. Slichot. Bombay, 1859. Marathi translation by Yosef Yecheskel Raghpurcher. Marathi, with some Hebrew, and English title-page.
4. Shirei Renanot. Bombay, 1879-1880. Songs for holidays and Shabbat. Lithographic printing. Two volumes in unoriginal cardboard case. Volume A from 1879 (smaller) contains David Solomon's signature at end, Volume B from 1880 has 5 leaves of corrections at end (according toYa'ari). Very good condition. Unoriginal bindings and case.
5. Passover Haggadah with Arabic Sherach, according to custom of Baghdad and environs. Bombay, 1887. Ya'ari 1274, Otzar HaHaggadot 1706. Handwritten inscription. Moth holes, unoriginal binding.
6. Sefer Tefilat HaChodesh According to Sephardic tradition. Bombay, 1889. Translated to Marathi by Yosef Yecheskel Raghpurcher. Hebrew and Marathi. Some Marathi handwriting. Title-page as well as first and last pages are damaged.
2. The book Chukat HaPesach. Calcutta, 1847. Ya'ari 666, Otzar Hahaggadot 910. With ink-stamp of Rabbi David ben Siliman Sasson of Bombay. Worn pages with slight tears. Rebound.
3. Slichot. Bombay, 1859. Marathi translation by Yosef Yecheskel Raghpurcher. Marathi, with some Hebrew, and English title-page.
4. Shirei Renanot. Bombay, 1879-1880. Songs for holidays and Shabbat. Lithographic printing. Two volumes in unoriginal cardboard case. Volume A from 1879 (smaller) contains David Solomon's signature at end, Volume B from 1880 has 5 leaves of corrections at end (according toYa'ari). Very good condition. Unoriginal bindings and case.
5. Passover Haggadah with Arabic Sherach, according to custom of Baghdad and environs. Bombay, 1887. Ya'ari 1274, Otzar HaHaggadot 1706. Handwritten inscription. Moth holes, unoriginal binding.
6. Sefer Tefilat HaChodesh According to Sephardic tradition. Bombay, 1889. Translated to Marathi by Yosef Yecheskel Raghpurcher. Hebrew and Marathi. Some Marathi handwriting. Title-page as well as first and last pages are damaged.
Books printed in the far east and books printed in the east
Books printed in the far east and books printed in the east