Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection

Shulchan Aruch – Amsterdam, 1661-1664 – Complete Set in Original Elaborate Bindings – First Edition of Be'er HaGolah Commentary – Copies of Jewish French Baron Liefmann Calmer

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Shulchan Aruch, with additional laws by R. Moshe Isserles, and Be'er HaGolah by R. Moshe Rivkes. Complete set – Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah, Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat. Amsterdam: Yosef Attias, 1661-1664. First edition of Be'er HaGolah, printed in the lifetime of the author. Four volumes.
Fine, complete set, with original wood and leather bindings, with remains of clasps and decorated gilt edges. Gilt inscription of owner's name at bottom of spine (erased in some volumes): "Calmer". The present copies belonged to the Jewish French baron Liefmann Calmer (1711-1784), an important personage among 18th century French Jewry (two of his three sons were executed during the French Revolution).
Two title pages in each part. First title page engraved with angelic figures, above the caption "in Amsterdam".
On last page of Choshen Mishpat, poem by R. Moshe Rivkes, author of Be'er HaGolah, composed upon completion of his work.


Four volumes. Orach Chaim: [3], 2-4, [4], 320 leaves. Yoreh Deah: [2], 2-339, [1] leaves. Even HaEzer: [3], 3-198, [1] leaves. Choshen Mishpat: [3], 3-486 leaves. 15.5 cm. Decorated gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Original wood and leather bindings, with remains of clasps. Wear, damage and small tears to bindings and spines (rear cover of first volume detached, with tears to spine).

At the beginning of the first volume appear [2] leaves with "names of authors in the Shulchan Aruch and some abbreviations mentioned in Be'er HaGolah". These leaves are recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a copy from a private collection; it is unclear whether they appear in all copies or were only added to some (the copy of the first volume recorded there was lacking at the beginning).
The approbations to this edition, appearing in the first volume, were apparently added after the printing of this part was completed, since some of them postdate the edition.

CB, no. 5940,17.

Prayer Books and Classic Books – Amsterdam Presses
Prayer Books and Classic Books – Amsterdam Presses