Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Books with Signatures and Stamps of Rabbis
Opening: $100
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
1. Yeshu’ot Meshicho, Don Yitzchak Abarbanel. Koenigsberg, [1861]. Upon last leaf signature “Belongs to Rabbi Noach Chaim Avraham Shapira…of Samargan” [brother of Rabbi Refael Shapira of Volozhin].
2. Sefer Maharil, Warsaw, 1874. Ownership notations and stamps of Rabbi Yehudah (Yudel) HaLevi Segal, rabbinical authority in Warsaw”, and Rabbi Yitzchak Dvoretz, Jerusalem.
3. Isur VeHeiter, Rabbi Yona Ashkenazi. Cracow, 1883. Stamps of Rabbi “Avraham Ze'ev HaLevi Heller, Av Beit Din of Meripol” [killed in the Holocaust], and Rabbi “Mordechai Ya’akov Varkol formerly Rabbi in Kovna”.
4-9. Mekor Chaim, by Rabbi Alter Shapira. Chernowitz, [1926]. Bound together with the following books and pamphlets: Megillat Kohelet with Pri Chaim commentary; T'kafo Cohen; Ginat Vradim; Otzarot Yerushalayim sections 24-25; Hitnotzetzut Oro Shel Mashiach. Stamps “Moshe Ze'ev Reitzer” and “Yosef Zvi Heilprin, rabbinical authority of the congregation of Shamkot”. Notation at end of book T'kafo Cohen: “Purchased by our Rabbi Av Beit Din… in Nanash in the states of Ungar… Yekutiel Yudah Heilprin descendant of the Chacham Tzvi” [Otzar HaRabbanim 11571, later rabbi of Nanash himself, his brother Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Halperin (Otzar HaRabbanim 8964)].
10. Sha’ar Bat Rabbim. Piotrkow, 1904. Signatures and stamps: Shlomo Baumgarten, Vienna; Moritz Kretch = “Moshe Kretch Dayan of the congregation of Eizenstadt”.
11. Shvil HaMidrash Rabba, Rabbi Yishaya Menachem Mendel Eisenschmidt. Piotrkow, 1905. Stamp of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Heilprin (see above).
12-13. Beit David responsa, first section, Rabbi Zev Wolf Leitner. Vienna, 1920. Bound together with: Mekor Chaim responsa by Rabbi Chaim Segalowitz. Vilna, 1898. Signed ownership notation by Rabbi “Binyamin son of Y. Y. Levi, Rabbi in Noirk and Av Beit Din of the Ahavat Avraham Bnei Koretz synagogue”. On reverse side of Mekor Chaim title page, handwritten inscription by author [among the rabbis of Vilna, Otzar HaRabbanim 6087].
14. Kiryat Chana David, second section, by Rabbi David HaCohen Scali. Jerusalem, [1936]. Printed inscription glued on inside of binding with the addition of the name of the recipient in Ashkenazi handwriting.
15. Lechem Starim, on Tractate Avodah Zarah. [Strasbourg, 1777, first edition]. Missing title page. Various stamps of Rabbi Avraham Azriel of Jerusalem. Signature of Rabbi “Moshe son of Chaim HaLevi”. Number of glosses in Sephardic handwriting.
Various sizes and conditions.
2. Sefer Maharil, Warsaw, 1874. Ownership notations and stamps of Rabbi Yehudah (Yudel) HaLevi Segal, rabbinical authority in Warsaw”, and Rabbi Yitzchak Dvoretz, Jerusalem.
3. Isur VeHeiter, Rabbi Yona Ashkenazi. Cracow, 1883. Stamps of Rabbi “Avraham Ze'ev HaLevi Heller, Av Beit Din of Meripol” [killed in the Holocaust], and Rabbi “Mordechai Ya’akov Varkol formerly Rabbi in Kovna”.
4-9. Mekor Chaim, by Rabbi Alter Shapira. Chernowitz, [1926]. Bound together with the following books and pamphlets: Megillat Kohelet with Pri Chaim commentary; T'kafo Cohen; Ginat Vradim; Otzarot Yerushalayim sections 24-25; Hitnotzetzut Oro Shel Mashiach. Stamps “Moshe Ze'ev Reitzer” and “Yosef Zvi Heilprin, rabbinical authority of the congregation of Shamkot”. Notation at end of book T'kafo Cohen: “Purchased by our Rabbi Av Beit Din… in Nanash in the states of Ungar… Yekutiel Yudah Heilprin descendant of the Chacham Tzvi” [Otzar HaRabbanim 11571, later rabbi of Nanash himself, his brother Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Halperin (Otzar HaRabbanim 8964)].
10. Sha’ar Bat Rabbim. Piotrkow, 1904. Signatures and stamps: Shlomo Baumgarten, Vienna; Moritz Kretch = “Moshe Kretch Dayan of the congregation of Eizenstadt”.
11. Shvil HaMidrash Rabba, Rabbi Yishaya Menachem Mendel Eisenschmidt. Piotrkow, 1905. Stamp of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Heilprin (see above).
12-13. Beit David responsa, first section, Rabbi Zev Wolf Leitner. Vienna, 1920. Bound together with: Mekor Chaim responsa by Rabbi Chaim Segalowitz. Vilna, 1898. Signed ownership notation by Rabbi “Binyamin son of Y. Y. Levi, Rabbi in Noirk and Av Beit Din of the Ahavat Avraham Bnei Koretz synagogue”. On reverse side of Mekor Chaim title page, handwritten inscription by author [among the rabbis of Vilna, Otzar HaRabbanim 6087].
14. Kiryat Chana David, second section, by Rabbi David HaCohen Scali. Jerusalem, [1936]. Printed inscription glued on inside of binding with the addition of the name of the recipient in Ashkenazi handwriting.
15. Lechem Starim, on Tractate Avodah Zarah. [Strasbourg, 1777, first edition]. Missing title page. Various stamps of Rabbi Avraham Azriel of Jerusalem. Signature of Rabbi “Moshe son of Chaim HaLevi”. Number of glosses in Sephardic handwriting.
Various sizes and conditions.
Signatures
Signatures