Auction 45 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
"Kohelet David" - List of Books in the Library of Rabbi David Oppenheim - Hamburg, 1826 / List of Passover Haggadot - Wiener
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
1. Kohelet David. "List of an outstanding treasure of books, collected by the famous prodigy David Oppenheim, Rebbe of Prague". [Author: Isaac Metz]. Hamburg, 1826. Hebrew and Latin, page facing page.
List of thousands of books and manuscripts owned by Rabbi David Oppenheim - Posek and rabbi in Nikolsburg and Prague. Noted at the end of the introduction: if within a year and a half the owners of the book collection will not reach an agreement with buyers "then…an auction will be held and the books will be sold one by one". Eventually, the collection was donated to The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. XVI, 742, [2] pp, 18.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Binding slightly worn. Ex-library copy.
2. "List of Passover Haggadot, printed worldwide for four hundred years (1500-1900)", by Shmuel Wiener. St. Petersburg, 1901. [1], VII, 54; 12 pp, 29 cm. Overall good condition. Minor tears. Ex-library copy.
List of thousands of books and manuscripts owned by Rabbi David Oppenheim - Posek and rabbi in Nikolsburg and Prague. Noted at the end of the introduction: if within a year and a half the owners of the book collection will not reach an agreement with buyers "then…an auction will be held and the books will be sold one by one". Eventually, the collection was donated to The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. XVI, 742, [2] pp, 18.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Binding slightly worn. Ex-library copy.
2. "List of Passover Haggadot, printed worldwide for four hundred years (1500-1900)", by Shmuel Wiener. St. Petersburg, 1901. [1], VII, 54; 12 pp, 29 cm. Overall good condition. Minor tears. Ex-library copy.