Auction 60

Special Premium Auction | Rare Letters, Manuscripts, and Sifrei Kodesh
Lot 1:Glory of the Italian Printing Presses: Two Sections of the Machzor per the Custom of Rome, First Edition of Kimcha DeAvishuna and the Sforno - Bologna, 1540. Many Glosses

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$1,500
Lot 2:Incunable: Shut Harosh - First Edition, Kushta, 1517 Glosses by Rabbi Yaakov Bardugo and More. Incomplete Copy

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$800
Lot 3:Sefer HaShorashim by the Radak. Venice 1547-8, with artistically rendering parts filled in where missing.

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$500
Lot 4:Sefer Yesod: Yafeh Mar’eh. First edition from the author’s lifetime. Venice 1590

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$400
Lot 5:Extremely Rare! Kesef Nivchar by Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto - First Edition Damascus 1605-1696

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$2,500
Lot 6:Rare! Sefer Ysod: Shut Maharanach. First edition, Istanbul 1610(?)

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$500
Lot 7:Kli Chemda – second edition, rare. Prague 1610

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$500
Lot 8:Sefer Yesod: Perush Etz Shatul on the Sefer Ikarim, with the approbation of the Maharsha and the Shla and other gedolim. First edition, Venice 1618.

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$500
Lot 9:Rare! Complete set of the Levush. Venice 1620

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$500
Lot 10:Rare in the original parchment binding: “Dictionary Ma’arich HaMa’arachot” by the converted Jew (mumar) Philip Daquin. First edition, Paris 1629.

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$750
Lot 11:Rare! With the Additional Title Page - Chalukei Avanim by Rabbi David Lida - First Edition - Furt, 1693

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$1,000
Lot 12:Complete Set in Leather-Covered Wooden Bindings with Remnants of Buckles - The Basic Edition of the Rif of Our Generation Amsterdam 1720

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$700
Lot 13:Complete set, pretty: Tanach Kehilot Moshe (Mikra’ot Gedolot) – Amsterdam, 1724-28.

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$1,000
Lot 14:Pretty copy in the original leather binding: Prayers for moadim. Amsterdam 1726.

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$500
Lot 15:Rare and pretty in original bindings: Complete set of Tanach. Amsterdam 1732

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$650
Lot 16:Magnificent art! A wonderful copy with the original handmade binding - Yesod: Shot HaTashbetz—first edition, Amsterdam, 1738-1739 With all 7 cover pages

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$1,000
Lot 17:Pretty copy in the original parchment binding, with the author’s signature: Mohar Yisrael, a Dutch-Hebrew dictionary. Amsterdam 1741.

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$400
Lot 18:Glosses Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Hirsch Av Beis Din of Drohobych on Sefer Beit Lechem yehuda - Furth 1747

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$300
Lot 19:Copy owned by the Imrei Binah and Rabbi Nissim Ashkenazi: Shut Lev Same’ach, only edition, Salonika 1793

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$500
Lot 20:The Copy of the Malbim with his Handwritten Corrections: Sefer Hatrumah - Early and rare Edition Zholkva, 1811 had belonged to Additional rabbis

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$1,000
Lot 21:Foundational work: the Noda B’Yehuda, tanina edition, 2 sections. First edition, Prague 1811.

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$500
Lot 22:Set of first editions of the Chumash and Siddur HaRoveh (Torat Moshe)—Redelheim 1818-21.

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$500
Lot 23:Handsome copies in the original bindings: Tanach with Ladino commentary. Vienna 1841-2.

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$500
Lot 24:Handsome, numbered facsimile – Bird’s Head Haggadah, by Machon Betzalel, Vienna 1965. Well-preserved, pretty copy.

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$300
Lot 25:Rare for its condition: complete set of the Talmud Bavli in the original bindings—Sheerit HaPlita, Munich 1948.

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$1,500
Lot 26:Exciting: A Small, Light Sefer Torah with an Original Soviet Stamp - Left the USSR with Permission - Interesting Decorations

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$1,000
Lot 27:Sefer Torah in “Velish” script. German, end of the 18th century (approx.)

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$500
Lot 28:Sefer Torah on Bright Gvil Sephardic Script - North Africa, the 10th Century

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$700
Lot 29:Unusually Large Megillat Esther on Gvil - The Ottoman Empire, Early 20th Century

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$700
Lot 30:Wall Plaque of a Synagogue in Ancona with a Special Piyyut that was Written after being Saved from an Earthquake and was Donated by the Grandson of the Remez Rabbi Shmuel Shmaya Papo - Italy, 1869

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$1,000
Lot 31:Fine miniature Manuscript on Parchment - Techinot for Women, Some of Them of Rare Content - Italy, the 17th/18th Century

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$1,400
Lot 32:Fine Calligraphic Manuscript Kavanot, Prayers and Piyyutim - Italy, 1809 with Decorated Title Pages

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$500
Lot 33:Historic: a pinkas (booklet) of the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem, with a summary of correspondence with around 1000 donors, mainly from the USA. Many interesting details. Jerusalem, 1930s-40s.

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$500
Lot 34:Fine Manuscript: Tiklal Baladi Version - Yemen, the 18th Century with Color Decorations

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$500
Lot 35:Pretty manuscript: Chumash, parshahs with targum. Central Yemen, mid-19th century.

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$1,600
Lot 36:Tiklal Manuscript Baladi Version - Sanaa, Early 19th Century

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$500
Lot 37:Tiklal Manuscript, Shami Version - Southern Yemen? The 19th/20th Century

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$500
Lot 38:Delightful Treasure! Fine Manuscript of Sefer Hazohar, 2 Volumes - Yemen, the 17th Century. Early Copying of Rare Extent

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$10,000
Lot 39:Rare and Special! Fine manuscript of Sefer Sha'arei Orah, a Basic Kabbalistic Book - Yemen, late 17th Century

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$3,000
Lot 40:Rare: Kabbalistic Manuscript that had no been Printed, Autograph of an Unknown Author - Eastern Countries, ca. 18th Century

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$2,000
Lot 41:Fine Manuscript from which the Shut Chok UMishpat by Rabbi Chaim Toledano was Printed - North Africa, ca. 1930

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$1,000
Lot 42:Copy with yichus and notes: Knesset HaGedolah by Rabbi Chaim Benvenisti. Early edition, rare. Furth 1692

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$300
Lot 43:Father of the Chida: self-dedication signed by Rabbi Yitzhak Zerachya Azoulay, on the work Shut Divrei Emet. Istanbul 1760.

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$1,000
Lot 44:Stamps and Notations Handwritten by Rabbeinu the Sdei Chemed Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini: Sefer Minchat Moshe - First Edition, Warsaw 1882

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$500
Lot 45:Eulogy drash for tzaddikim, handwritten by the Resh Galusa of Bavel, the Ben Ish Hai. Leaves of segulah.

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$5,500
Lot 46:Complete drash handwritten by the Kaf HaChaim.

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$1,500
Lot 47:Kabbalistic chiddushim handwritten by the kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Patya.

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$750
Lot 48:“For your benefit and a lengthening of your days” – handwritten leaf from the Sandlar HaKadosh with a quote from Sefer HaChezyonot by the Maharhav.

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$500
Lot 49:Collection of leaves handwritten and signed by the Chassidic kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Englander, including a “Luach Tikkun Ta’ut [Table correcting errors] and Petach HaShaar [introduction]” for his well-known work Shaar Shimon on the Chassidic kabbalistic w

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$500
Lot 50:Sefer Yesod: Megaleh Amukot, first printing. Krakow 1637. Partially missing copy

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$600

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