Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

AUCTION 15

March 12, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

AUCTION 15 - MARCH 12TH 2002
Auction of
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art
The Property of Various Owners including:
The Hallegua Family of Cochin, India
Selections from the Library of the Late Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber of London
(including his unpublished memoirs).
The Library of Mr. Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Connecticut
Together With:
A Significant Collection of Early Twentieth Century Russian-Jewish Illustrated Books

Sale Fifteen, held on March 12th, 2002, generated enthusiasm in the Judaica market with a broad collection of Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art from the Library of Mr. Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Connecticut, the Library of the Late Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber of London (including his unpublished memoirs), The Hallegua Family of Cochin, India, and A Significant Collection of Early Twentieth Century Russian-Jewish Illustrated Books.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SALE:
(prices include 15% buyer’s premium)
(HAGADAH). Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. THE SECOND MANTUA HAGADAH. EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT AND ELUSIVE. RARER THAN THE FIRST EDITION. SINCE THE WAR, ONLY THE PRESENT COPY HAS APPEARED AT PUBLIC AUCTION. Mantua, Joseph Shalit ben Jacob Aschkenazi, 1568. Sold for $86,250. Lot 194.
(BIBLE, Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehillim. Square Spanish Hebrew hand with vocalization and accents On Vellum.ff. 159. Initial word illuminated with decorative flourishes in red, green and black inks. 16mo. Spain, 15th Century. Sold for more than six times the low estimate at $80,500. Lot 435.
(Bible, Hebrew. FIVE SCROLLS & HAFTOROTH). On Vellum. Wide margins. Initial words illuminated with decorative flourishes in red, green and black ink. Double columns of twenty-seven lines. Germany, 13th Century. Sold for over twice the low estimate at $63,250.Lot 434.
MENDELSSOHN, MOSES. (Celebrated Philosopher of the German Enlightenment. 1729-1786). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew. Berlin, 29th Teveth, 1779. Sold for $9,775.Lot 483
SCHOR, ILYA. Prayers in the Synagogue. An uncommonly large canvas with a most distinctive Cubist influence, vibrant in color and style. Signed by artist, framed. Acrylic on board. American, circa 1950. Sold for $3,000. Lot 575

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Grouped product items
Product Name
MIZRACH $900.00
(HAGADAH) $1,500.00
(MAJORCA) $1,000.00
(MISHNAH) $1,500.00
(LITURGY) $20,000.00
KAPLANSKI $1,500.00
(Anonymous) $700.00
Pri Chadash $4,000.00
(HOLOCAUST) $1,500.00
(KARAITICA) $2,500.00
(POSTCARDS) $400.00
(HOLOCAUST). $7,000.00
(CHASSIDISM) $7,000.00
Menorath Hama’or. With: Pirush Nefesh Yehudah. $700.00
Perush Nevi’im Rishonim [commentary to Former Prophets] $6,000.00
Ma’ayanei Hayeshuah $900.00
(Hayarchi). Sepher Hamanhig $15,000.00
Ben Hamelech Vehanazir [“The Prince and the Hermit”] $900.00
Sepher Ikrim [“Book of Fundamental Principles”] $30,000.00
Haskamah Chamurah [broadside granting sole Hebrew printing rights to Abraham Sassoon] $1,800.00
ALFONSI, PETRUS $2,500.00
Tephilah Lemoshe [sermons and homilies to the Pentateuch, with treatise on the reading of the Shema upon retirement] $1,200.00
Torath Moshe [commentary to Book of Genesis] $400.00
(SALOMON, HAYM). The Freeman’s Journal Or, The North American Intelligencer $900.00
NASSY, DAVID DE ISAAC COHEN. Observations on the Cause, Nature, and Treatment of the Epidemic Disorder Prevalent in Philadelphia $3,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- Biblia Hebraica...Edito Prima Americana $6,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $900.00
Gomez, Isaac. Selections of a Father for the Use of his Children. In Prose and Verse $1,500.00
(Houston, George). Israel Vindicated, Being A Refutation of the Calumnies Propagated Respecting the Jewish Nation, in which the Objects and Views of the American Society for the Ameliorating and Condition of the Jews are Investigated. By an Israelite $1,000.00
Documents in Relation to the Dismissal of David G. Seixas, From The Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; Published for the Information of the Contributors, in pursuance of a Resolution of the Board of Directors $1,500.00
Moses, Myer. Oration Delivered at Tammany-Hall, on the Twelfth May, 1831, Being the Forty-Second Anniversary, of the Tammany Society, Or, Columbian Order. By Myer Moses, A Member of Said Society $900.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $1,000.00
Seder Hatefiloth-Form of Daily Prayers. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews $15,000.00
Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium] $15,000.00
(LITURGY). Siddur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the custom of German of Polish Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser $900.00
Tephilah mikol Hashanah...Lehanossim Lemedinath America [prayers of the entire year] $2,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $1,500.00
(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully Translated According to the Massoratic Text, After the Best Jewish Authorities and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes. By ISAAC LEESER $7,000.00
(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Sriptures. Carefully Translated According to the Massoratic Text, After the Best Jewish Authorites. By ISAAC LEESER $3,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $3,000.00
GOLDSCHTOFF, FEIVAL. Koroth Ha’olam [world history, with concentration on America] $600.00
Harris, Sarah. Thoughts Suggested by Bible Texts. Addressed to my Children. Edited by Isaac Lesser $2,000.00
Hospital for Israelites in Philadelphia-Spital für Israeliten in Philadelphia [Resolution of Benai Berith District No. 3 Grand Lodge Provisional Hospital Committee in favor of erecting a Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia] $1,500.00
SZOLD, BENJAMIN. Vaterland und Freiheit. Predigt bei der Erinnerungsfreier des verstorbenen Präsidenten, Abraham Lincoln am 1 Juni 1865, (dem zweiten Tag Schabuoth) $600.00
Moreh Derech. The Hebrew Reader. Designed as an Easy Guide to the Hebrew Tongue, for Jewish Children and Self-Instruction. No. 1. The Spelling Book. By ISAAC LEESER $900.00
Constitution and By-Laws of the Jewish Hospital Association of Philadelphia $2,000.00
LEESER, ISAAC. Discourses on the Jewish Religion $1,500.00
The Day’s Doings; An Illustrated Journal. Two issues concerning the Benjamin Nathan murder $900.00
Constitution of the Congregation “K. K. Beth Elohim.” Approved and Ratified March 26th, 1871 $2,000.00
Minhag America - The Daily Prayer for American Israelites as Revised in Conference. With: Select Payers for Various Occasions In Life $600.00
(Bibliography). Catalogue of the Leeser Library. Compiled by Cyrus Adler $1,500.00
Zavodnik, Max. Ein Iberashanda Lied di Karbanoth fun Essex Street Fayer $1,500.00
DEINARD, EPHRAIM. Sepher Haploiderzak, o Me’oroth Ziphonim. [“The Chatterbox”] $900.00
Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society. Numbers 1-25, with index volume (covering nos.1-20) $700.00
Collection of c. 167 Autograph Letters by Rabbis Dov Ber Abramowitz and Solomon Joseph Eliach of New York to Rabbi Samuel Salant of Jerusalem. Most on headed paper, dated, stamped and signed. In Hebrew. $3,000.00
Rosenfeld, Zachariah Joseph. Sepher Yoseph Tikvah [on the permissibility of using machine-made Matzoth on Passover]. With an appendix regarding Rosenfeld’s inquiries to the Department of Zoology at Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution $900.00
(LITURGY). Leinen Siddur [prayers throughout the year] $600.00
(Bar-Mitzvah Scrap-book) $700.00
Fishman, Judah Leib Ha’Kohen (Maimon). Der Kolonial Fund fun dem Mizrachi $700.00
Kevod Chachamim [testimonial volume in honor of the 70th birthday of Rabbi Bernard Louis Levinthal] $1,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $500.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $2,500.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $4,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $5,000.00
Judah P. Benjamin. Steel-engraving. Half-length portrait facing right $600.00
YOCHANAN B. ISAAC OF HOELLESCHAU. Ma’aseh Rav [halachic polemic] $3,000.00
(British Parliamentary Act). An Act for Naturalizing such Foreign Protestants and others therein Mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty’s Colonies in America $1,500.00
*PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. Letters to The Jews. Levi, David. Letters to Dr. Priestley** $900.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA). $6,000.00
(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur $3,000.00
The Liturgy According to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Hebrew and English as Publicly Read in the Synagogue and Used by All their Families $700.00
*Laws of the New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street. London. Takanoth de Chebra Kadisha Gemilath Chassodim {laws pertaining to the Burial Society of the New Synagogue, London]** $1,200.00
Congratulatory Addresses Recited In The Theatre, Oxford. At The Installation of His Grace The Duke of Wellington, Chancellor of the University $500.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $300.00
Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions. Translated into English, from the German of Dr. W. Wessely, by MIRIAM WERTHEIMER $900.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $250.00
GASTER, MOSES. History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, The Cathedral Synagogue of the Jews in England, Situate in Bevis Marks. A Memorial Volume... to celebrate the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of its Inauguration, 1701-1901 $150.00
Schwartzberg, Israel Isaac (Black). Sepher Shevilei Ha’yahaduth Be’Angliyah-The Path of Judaism in England $700.00
Tephilah Lechagigath Yom Kivush Yerushalayim $700.00
Shapotshnik, Joseph. Collection of Shapotshnik's Yiddish newspapers mostly containing vehement political attacks against the London Beth Din and many of the leading Rabbis of Europe and Eretz Israel $1,500.00
Costa, Isaac da. Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews. With: Bertram Brewster, Some Account of the Capadose Family. And: An Excursus on their Jewish History, by Cecil Roth $300.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $2,500.00
Heston, Watson. Old Testament Stories. Comically Illustrated. The Stories being Humorously Told, and Hard Facts Given $600.00
Akeidath Yitzchak [philosophical and allegorical sermons on the Pentateuch] $1,500.00
Ritual de Oraciones para Todo el Ano [prayers throughout the year]. According to Aschkenazic rite $1,200.00
Lev Chacham [commentary to the Book of Ecclesiastes, with text] $5,000.00
Nachlath Shimon [kabbalistic elucidations and homilies] $900.00
Margalioth Tovah [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch] $600.00
La Guerta de Oro [“The Golden Garden”] $6,000.00
*Avodath Hakodesh [Prayers, remedies and supplications for the entire year, based on the Kabbalah]. WITH: Ledavid Emeth [laws of writing a Torah Scroll]** $300.00
Chovoth Halevavoth [pietism]. Translated into Hebrew by Judah Ibn Tibbon $600.00
Shanah Chadashah [Blessings, customs and talismans for Rosh Ha’shanah]. Edited by JOSEPH CHAIM OF BAGHDAD (Ben Ish Chai) $1,500.00
Amudei Hashama’im [on the sanctification of the New Month] $300.00
Chothem Tachnith [dictionary of Hebrew symonyms in the Bible, with commentary]. Edited by GABRIEL ISAAC POLAK $250.00
Sepher Ha’ibronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calender] $5,000.00
Institutiones Linguae Hebraicæ $600.00
(BEN-AV”I, ITAMAR) $1,500.00
Itinerarium Beniamini Tudelensis. Translated into Latin by Benedictus Aria Montano $5,000.00
Itinerarium Benjaminis Latine redditum $4,000.00
“ASHER BEN YECHIEL” (RO”SH) (Pseudo). Besamim Rosh [responsa] $600.00
Nistar Ha’komer...Mekethav-Yad asher Be’vatican $500.00
Schatz, Boris. Yerushalayim Habenuyah. FIRST EDITION. pp.189,(4). 1924. * WITH: Bezalel Student Report-Card. Printed booklet of 16 pages with several autograph manuscript entries signed by Z. Raban, M. Gur-Arye, B. Schatz, etc. circa1925 $700.00
Shlomo Hamelech [children’s tale of King Solomon] $400.00
Hebrew. LATER PROPHETS). With the commentary of DAVID BEN JOSEPH KIMCHI $12,000.00
Hebrew). Arba’ah Ve’esrim. Edited by Felix Pratensis with commentaries including Rashi, David Kimchi, Nachmanides, Gersonides, Aramaic Targums etc., Also Maimonides’ Thirteen Articles of Faith $50,000.00
Complete in five volumes. With Nikud (vowel-points). Divisional titles. Printer’s device on all titles $7,000.00
Hebrew). Complete, bound in four volumes $6,000.00
Hebrew). With commentaries of Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi (two), Targum etc $15,000.00
Hebrew, KINGS I & II). Sepher Melachim $400.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamisha Chumshei Torah $4,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With Nikud and Cantalation points $15,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumashei Torah (-end) $5,000.00
Hebrew). Magna Biblia Rabbinica. With Targum Onkeles and commentary by Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi, Targum, etc. Edited by Leone da Modena $2,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end]. With Nikud $6,000.00
Hebrew). Biblia Hebraica. Hebrew and Latin titles $1,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Biblia Hebraica. Edited and with an introduction in Latin by Johannes Leusden $1,200.00
Chaladae and Latin. CHRONICLES I). Targum Shel Divrei Ha’yamim-Paraphrasis Chaldaica I Libri Chronicorum. Translated and with explanatory notes in Latin by Matthew Fredrick Beck $500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim - Quinque Libri Mosis $4,000.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Tikun Sophrim - Quinque Libri Mosis $900.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher, Chamishah Chumashei Torah, Tikun Sophrim Vavei Ha’amudim $1,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher, Chamishah Chumashei Torah, Tikun Sophrim Vavei Ha’amudim $1,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim. With commentaries including Rashi and Abrabanel $2,500.00
Hebrew & English). The Old Testament, English and Hebrew, with Remarks Critical and Grammatical on the Hebrew and Corrections of the English. By Anselm Bayly $5,000.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. With Shimushei Tehilim and prayers on behalf of the sick $1,500.00
Hebrew & Judeo-Arabic. PENTATEUCH) $2,500.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim. With commentaries and Ma’amadim $3,000.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH MEGILOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). $900.00
*BUXTORF, JOHANNES. De Abbreviaturis Hebraicis...Operis Talmudici [glossary of Talmudic abbreviations]. WITH: Item Bibliotheca Rabbinica** $700.00
Schonfeld, Hugh J. The New Hebrew Typography. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Types drawn by Bertram F. Stevenson. WITH: Typed Letter Signed by Schonfeld to Abraham Horodisch, concerning a review of the book. 1932. $400.00
“Yerushalmi, Hyman” (i.e. A. M. Habermann). Machbereth Hasheker Vehakozev, o, Yode’a Sepher [satirical parody] $1,500.00
(BIBLIOGRAPHY) $500.00
Kirchliche Verfassung der Heutigen Juden Sonderlich derer in Deutschland $1,500.00
Fromer (Jakob). Der Babylonische Talmud in Auswahl $500.00
Synagoga Judaica $400.00
Synagoga Judaica...Das ist Erneuerte Juedische Synagog, oder Juden-Schuel $2,000.00
Group of c. 22 pocket calenders and almanacs for the Jewish community of Berlin $1,500.00
Las excelencias de los Hebreos [“The Admirable Qualities of the Jewish People”-apologetic defense of Judaism and the Jewish people]. Two parts in one. $8,000.00
Minhagim. According to the custom of Germany and Poland $6,000.00
Minchah Ketanah [commentary on the Haphtaroth of the Three Weeks] $300.00
Todros ben Tzvi Hirsch. Halacha Pesukah [on Yoreh De’ah] $2,500.00
MEISELS, MOSES BEN MORDECHAI. Shirath Moshe [poetic exposition of the Precepts] $600.00
Schneur Zalman of Liady. Tanya - Likutei Amarim [fundemental exposition of Chabad Chassidism] $4,000.00
Schneur Zalman of Liady. (Tanya)- Igereth HaKodesh [fundamental exposition of Chabad Chassidism] $2,500.00
Schneur Zalman of Liady. (Tanya) - Likutei Amarim [fundemental exposition of Chabad Chassidism] $1,500.00
Schneur Zalman of Liady. Tanya - Ve’hu Sepher Likutei Amarim [fundemental exposition of Chabad Chassidism] $1,500.00
Schneur Zalman of LiadI. Torah Ohr [sermons on the first two books of the Pentateuch, the Book of Esther and one sermon on Passover] $1,200.00
Igereth Hakodesh [Chassidic treatises] MENACHEM MENDEL OF VITEBSK, ABRAHAM OF KALISKA and CHAIM OF HAMDORA. With selections by Elimelech of Lizhensk, JOSEPH OF Ostrog And LEVI ISAAC OF BERDICHEV. * Sepher Ha’zechirah. $700.00
Levi Isaac of Berdichev. Sepher Hazechirah $700.00
(Satmar). Acharith Davar $1,500.00
Moda’ah Rabah Le’oraitha. Broadside announcing the establishment of the Lubavitch Yeshiva, Achei Temimim, as well as the Cheder, Benei Temimim, both to be located in Tel Aviv $700.00
(Moses ben Gershon Gentili). Chanukath Ha’bayith [treatise on the building of the Second Temple] $2,000.00
Kipniss, Levin. Armonah Useyachah $150.00
Aleph-Beth [primer] $600.00
*Kamson, Jacob David. Yom Huledet [a land of insects and gnomes living in mushroom homes]. Illustrated by Else Wentz-Vitar. Yeled Katan Halach Legan. Illustrated by Ludwig Wolpert** $200.00
Perlman, S. M. Hassinim, (The Chinese). Chinese Life, Manners and Customs. Culture and Creeds, Government System and Trade. With an Appendix. The Jews in China, being a complete record of their history and present condition in the celestial Empire $200.00
SOPHER, ARTHUR. Chinese Jews $500.00
Zoth Chukath Ha’Torah [kabbalah- annotation of Isaac Luria’s Sepher Ha’kavanoth] $700.00
Ydele Verwachtinge der Joden Getoont in den Persoon van Sabethai Zevi, Haren Laetsten Vermeynden Messias. Text in Dutch $6,000.00
Tomer Devorah [Kabbalah] $500.00
GIUSTO, LEON. La Rimembranza Dell’eccellente Rabbino Lazzaro de Mordo Dottore in Medicina $700.00
Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons] $300.00
Tephilah Za’akah [supplicatory prayer recited before the Kol Nidreh and Musaph services of Yom Kippur]. Extracted from Abraham Danzig’s Chayei Adam $500.00
Me’or Einayim [Philosophy of History] $2,000.00
Igereth Shmuel [commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text, and accompanied by commentary by RaSH”I] $6,000.00
KIMCHI, DAVID. Mehalalch Shevilei Hada’ath. * (LEON, MESSER DAVID BEN JUDAH). Pethach Devarai. * ABRAHAM IBN EZRA. Sepher Tzachuth Badikduk. And, Sepher Me’azne Lashon Hakodesh. Together, four works in one as issued. Bound in two volumes $1,500.00
Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse...!” L’Auore $3,000.00
Set of Musée des Horreurs lithographed posters. Numbers 1- 50 (of 51) by V. Lenepveu $9,000.00
Ohev Mishpat [commentary to the Book of Job, with text] $900.00
(RaSHBa”TZ). Sepher HaTaSHBba”’TZ [responsa] $2,000.00
Derashah [concerning the earthquake suffered by Tiberias and Safed] $500.00
MaHaRa”M ESH). HALEVI, Samuel ben David. Sepher Nachalath Shivah [contract law and responsa] $4,000.00
Shevet Musar [52 ethical sermons] $300.00
(Liturgy). Paltin Beth El- Amudei Shamayim. Armon Ir Ha’Elo-him - Sha’arei Shamayim [prayers for the entire year, with extensive commentary by Jacob Emden] $4,000.00
EMDEN, JACOB. $6,000.00
(LITURGY). Seder Tephiloth Ha’falashim [prayers according to the rite of the Beta Israel]. Hebrew and Amharic text. Translation into Hebrew by Joseph Halevy $500.00
Faïtlovitch, Jacques. Igereth Falashim $500.00
HALEVI, Samuel ben David. Sepher Nachalath Shivah [contract law and responsa] $0.00
Lindau, Baruch. Reishith Limudim [scientific text] $0.00
Group of Halachic correspondence and responsa to his son-in-law Israel Meir Freimann and others $0.00
ETTLINGER, JACOB $0.00
ETTLINGER, JACOB $0.00
(ETTLINGER, JACOB). $0.00
Rabbinical contract of Rabbi Ettlinger, family trees of the Strammbaum and Ettlinger family and notebooks containing the diaries and poems of Amelia Isaacson and Augusta Ettlinger $0.00
Sepher Ukelidus [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements] $1,200.00
Minchath Yehudah [on creation, the interpretation of dreams, ghosts, hell, messianic times and repentance] $1,800.00
Zichron Torath Moshe [indices to Talmud, Midrash, etc.] $900.00
Malecheth Hakodesh [Hebrew language, word games]. Parts I & II. WITH: Kuntress Nephesh David Ve’nephesh Chaya [eulogy for the Author’s parents] $600.00
FLECKELES, ELIEZER $600.00
Eynei Avraham [index of commentaries on the Bible] $1,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew. JEREMIAH). Sepher Yirmyahu $700.00
(Liturgy). Ritual des Prieres en Hebreu a l’Usage des Israelites de l’Ancien Comtat $1,500.00
BLUM, L. Méthode Facile pour Apprendre L’Hébreu Contenant des Prières & Actions de Graces a l’usage des Jeunes Israélites [Hebrew language book prepared for children] $400.00
(Napoleonica). Shir Umizmor asher Sharu Bnei Yisrael - Fête Religieuse Célébrèe à Paris, le 10 Pluviôse an XIII, par les Français du Culte Judaïque, à l’occasion Du Couronnement de Napoléon $1,500.00
(Napoleonica). L’Assemblea de’Deputati Israeliti di Francia ed Italia [announcement of a meeting of the Paris Sanhedrin] $1,500.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA) $900.00
(Napoleonica). Tekanoth asher Yesodu Anshei Shem Sanhedrin - Décisions Doctrinales du Grand Sanhedrin qui s’est tenu a Paris au mois d’Adar permier, l’an de la Création 5567 (Février 1807), sous les Auspices de Napoléon-Le-Grand $1,000.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA). $2,000.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA) $2,000.00
(Napoleonica). Pewter plate with Hebrew inscriptions. Dedicated (in French) to: “Napolêon - L’Empereur des Francais,” surmounted by bird and crown device. Framed by two tablets with poetic Hebrew praise of Napoleon Bonaparte $4,000.00
Korban Chagigah [Festival sermons, with novellae to Tractate Chagigah] $600.00
WUERFEL, ANDREA. Historische Nachrichten von der Juden-Gemeinde...Nürnberg $600.00
Statuten des Vorschuss-Instituts der Israelitischen Armen-Anstalt zu Hamburg $600.00
*Stern, Itzig Feitel (pseud?). Gedichter Perobeln und Schnoukes. Vol. I: pp.xii, 96. Vol II: (6),xvi, 143. * Die Schabbes Lamp. pp.(6),x,142,(4)** $2,000.00
Bücherei des Schocken Verlags. Numbers 1-92 (all published) in 81 vols. All complete but for Number 80 $1,500.00
Dietz, Alexander. The Jewish Community of Frankfurt- a Genealogical Study 1349-1849 $150.00
(Baal Shem Tov). Sepher Shem Tov Ha’katan [prayers, remedies, charms and protective (“white”) magic]. Collected from the writings of mystics “as shown to me from Heaven” $600.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach $70,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Spanish rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). Accompanied by Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.” $2,000.00
Hagadah shel Pessach. Instructions in Judeo-German printed in Wayber-taytsch type $3,000.00
Hagadah shel Pessach. Instructions in Judeo-German printed in Wayber-taytsch type $3,000.00
Seder Hagadah Shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel $1,800.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. Instructions in Judeo-German $900.00
Sha’arei Ratzon. Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo. With commentary to other Festivals $3,000.00
WORMS, ASHER ANSHIL. Biur Maspik [commentray to the Chad Gadya Seder song] $500.00
The Hagadah Shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Thanksgiving, Which are Used and Read by All Families in Every House of the Israelites on the Two First Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander $6,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary in Ladino $500.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Translation and instructions in Judeo-German $600.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Translation and instructions in Judeo-German by Joel Brill $900.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Or, Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $700.00
Ma’aleh Beith Chorin. With commentaries. Translation into Judeo-German by Joel Brill $2,500.00
Chelkath Binyamin. Kabbalistic commentary to the Hagadah by Benjamin of Zlazitsch, with text. With the reflections (Kavanoth) of Isaac Luria $4,000.00
Ma’aleh Beith Chorin vehu Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary and with instructions in Ladino and Yiddish $600.00
Tikun Leil Shavuoth ve’Hoshanah Raba [order for the Pentacostal night of study]. With Seder Korban Pessach [the order of service for the night of Passover, including the Hagadah text] $500.00
Hagada auf Pessach. With commentary “Atereth Tzvi” by SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH and David Abudraham $700.00
Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata $1,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $900.00
Seder Hagaddah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $900.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Erzählung von dem Auszuge Israels aus Egypten, an den beiden ersten Pessach-Abenden $900.00
Hagadah Shel Pessach-Peszáchi Haggáda $250.00
Die jüdischen Flüchtlinge in der Schweiz. Zur Feier des Pesach [Hebrew] -Festes im Jahre 5703 $900.00
Haggadah 5705. Hebrew with Dutch translation $700.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Narracion de la Pascua $250.00
Hagadah shel Pesach $900.00
Hagadah shel Pesach $900.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. According to both Sephardic and Ashkenazic customs $250.00
Hagadah Shel Pessach-Haggadah di Pasqua $250.00
Hagadath Lechem Oni Leleil Pesach. Prepared by Isaac Greenbaum, with more than forty commentaries $900.00
Facsimile of the Augsburg1534 Edition $1,500.00
Sepher Hakuzari [philosophy] With commentary “Kol Yehudah” by Judah Moscato $600.00
(“BEN UZZIEL”). Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum [“Ninteen Letters about Judaism’]. Text in German $500.00
Publicatie Tegens het Inkomen en vernachten van Hoogduytsche Joden of Smoussen dersselver Wyven of Kinderen, binnen de Stadt Utrecht [public ordinance banning German-Jewish merchants from the town of Utrecht on the accusation of thefts and burglaries] $600.00
Zamenspraak tusschen een Portugeesche Jood en twee Noord-Hollandsche Boeren met den Schipper, in het Vooronder in het Camper Schip, varende van Amsterdam $700.00
Escamoth Reglamentos, e Ordenanças para o bom governo da Santa Irmandade Mishenet Zequenim id est: Bordao dos Velhos Novamente Instituida nesta cidade de Amsterdam, para amparo de Velhos, e Velhas, desvalidos $1,500.00
Castro, D.H. de. 1675-1875: De Synagogue der Portugeesch-Israelietische Gemeente te Amsterdam $300.00
Stein, Menachem (Edmund). Chayei Hakeysarim. Translation into Hebrew of C. Suetonius Tranquillus’s “De Vita Caesarum.” $300.00
Le Calendrier Israélite pour l’annee 5703 (1942-43). Prepared by N. Grunewald $700.00
Hecht, Ben. We Will Never Die. A Memorial Pageant Dedicated to the 2,000,000 Jewish Dead of Europe. pp.40 and 4pp. illustrated plates $700.00
Rokeach, Aaron, Grand Rabbi of Belz. Ha’derech $1,200.00
Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures $900.00
Weinreich, Max. Hitler’s Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany’s Crimes Against the Jewish People $300.00
Undzer Churban in Bild - Our Destruction in Pictures. Collected and Edited by R. Olevski, D. Rosental, P. Trepman, for the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone $900.00
Fun Letzten Churban. Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime $600.00
ABRAMOVITCH, RAPHAEL (Editor). Die Farshvundene Velt - The Vanished World $500.00
Pictorial Review, Vaad Hatzala Germany $500.00
Brycha 1945-1948 $600.00
(Talmud, Babylonian). With commentaries. A Complete Set, in Nineteen Volumes $6,000.00
The Tragedy of Slovak Jewry $200.00
Borwicz, M. One Thousand Years of Jewish Life in Poland $200.00
Vochenblat - Jewish Weekly. “Organ of the She’erith Hapleitah in the British Zone.” Fifth Anniversary Edition $300.00
Beith Halevi [Rabbinic law] $600.00
Collection of 28 broadsides concerning various communal controversies mostly in Austro-Hungary $5,000.00
Sepher Ha’machberoth Le’Mar Immanuel [poetry] $25,000.00
Machberath Ha’topheth Veha’eden $200.00
Apologia Secunda Reverendi patris Iacobi Hochstraten contra defensionen quadam in favorem Ionnis Reuchlen....[“Second Explanation on Father Jacob Hoogstraaten Against the Defense Made in Favor of Johann Reuchlin’] $1,500.00
Don Pheilippe por la Gracia... $1,200.00
(INQUISITION). $1,500.00
Dellon, Charles. Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa $900.00
LIMBORCH, PHILIP A. The History of the Inquisition. Translated into English by Samuel Chandler $600.00
(Anonymous). Histoire des Inquisitions, Oú l’on rapporte l’origine & le progrés de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction $600.00
STOCKDALE, J(OHN). J(OSEPH). The History of the Inquisitions; Including The Secret Transactions of Those Horrific Tribunals $500.00
Representacion que ha Dirigido À S. M. el ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Córdoba, sobre el restablecimiento de la Inquisicion [request for the reintroduction of the Inquisition at Cordova] $500.00
(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah [abridgment of Moses of Coucy’s Sepher Mitzvath Gadol] $900.00
Seder Azharoth [piyutim for Shemini Atzereth] $2,000.00
Nachlath Binyamin $400.00
Meir Nathiv [Biblical concordance] $400.00
CARMOLY, ELIAKIM. Halichoth Eretz Israel-Itinéraires de La Terre Sainte des XII, XV, XVI et XVII Siècle $600.00
CHAYAL. Jewish Brigade Group $600.00
The Palestine Post. “State of Israel is Born.” $1,500.00
The Palestine Post. “Israel Appeals for Admission to U.N.” $900.00
Nimtza-Bi, M. Hedegel $300.00
Be’ekvoth Milchemeth Yom Ha’kippurim [In the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War]. Edited by Dov Ginzberg $600.00
Ibur Shanim [on the Calendar, and other customs through the year] $700.00
Capitali, & Noua Riforma delli Banchieri Hebrei di Roma $3,000.00
In Nome del Signore Iddio. Regole delle Tasse della Nationè Hebrea di Ferrara [regulations concerning communal taxation] $900.00
Shir Le’Ma’aloth Chevrath Mishmar Haboker VeHa’erev $900.00
Le’adonai Maozim ranei Todoth-Divotisime Azioni di Grazie Umiliate a Dio Signore Dalla Nazione Ebrea di Mantova $500.00
L’adonai Ha’adonim-Divotissime Azioni di Grazie Umiliate Adio Signore $500.00
(Arbah Turim) Yoreh De’ah [Rabbinic code]. With commentary “Beith Yoseph” by JOSEPH KARO $500.00
Tze’enah Ure’enah $300.00
Divrei Tzedek $250.00
Torah Metzion [journal of novellae from contemporary scholars in Eretz Israel and the Diaspora]. Edited by ABRAHAM ZUCKERMANN $600.00
Joseph Jacobs & Lucien Wolf. Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition. $1,800.00
Frauberger, Heinrich (Editor). Mittheilungen der Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Jüdischer Kunstdenkmäler $2,500.00
NARKISS, MORDECHAI. The Hanukkah Lamp $1,000.00
BARNETT, R.D. (Editor). Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London $500.00
De Antiquitate Judaica [“Antiquities of the Jews”] $4,000.00
Il Quale Memorabile Essempio della Divina Giustitia $600.00
Dudaim [poems and stories] $400.00
Shulchan Aruch: Even Ha’ezer - Choshen Mishpath [Code of Jewish Law] $2,000.00
Ashlei Ravravei- Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. Yoreh De’ah $1,500.00
Sepher Leket Shemu’el [midrashic compilation] $500.00
Tzeva'oth Moreinu [ethical will] $300.00
(Attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic code] $900.00
Mishpatei Shmuel [responsa] $700.00
Juedisches Ceremoniel $600.00
Moreh Nevuchei Ha’zman [“Guide for the Perplexed of the Time”]. Edited by Leopold (Yom Tov Lipmann) Zunz $500.00
(The Noda Beyehudah). Tephilah....[Prayer in Honor of Maria Theresa] $2,000.00
Sepher Agur [Jewish laws and precepts] $12,000.00
Kli Chemdah [homilies on the Torah portions] $700.00
Tavnith Hechel-Libellus Effigiei Templi Salomanis [treatise on the exterior, interior and ritual objects of the Temple of Solomon] $500.00
Attributed to). Pethach Devarai [Hebrew grammar] $7,000.00
LEUSDEN, JOHANNES. $2,000.00
RaLBa”G). Pirush al Hatorah [commentary to the Pentateuch] $700.00
RaLBa”G). Pirush Chamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls] $1,000.00
To’aliyoth HaRaLBa”G [novellae to the Pentateuch] $600.00
Machzor Chelek Sheni [prayers for the New Year, Day of Atonment and Succoth]. According to the custom of Rome $900.00
Machzor [prayers throughout the year]. According to German rite. With Ma’aglei Tzedek, detailed commentary $8,000.00
Tikun Bekashoth Anshei Ma’amad [daily selections from the Bible, Mishnah and Talmud to be read following morning prayers]. Prepared by MOSES JAFFE $400.00
Spanish). Machzor. De las Oraciones del Año. Parte Tercera $5,000.00
Seder Hatephiloth Miyamim Noraim [prayers for the High Holy Days]. According to Sephardic rite $700.00
Spanish). Meah Berachoth [collected prayers and instructions issued for Marrano refugees] $2,500.00
Spanish). Meah Berachoth [collected prayers and instructions issued for Marrano refugees] $400.00
Spanish). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Asanah y Kipur $1,500.00
Seder Chamisha Ta'aniyoth [penitential prayers for the five fasts]. According to the custom of the Holy Community of Sephardim, Amsterdam. Prepared by SOLOMON BEN JACOB JUDAH LEON TEMPLO $400.00
Sha’arei Selichah [penitential prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With Yiddish translation printed in Wayber-taytsch type $700.00
Seder Shel Yom Kippur [Festival prayer for the Day of Atonement]. According to the rite of Avignon. Edited by Abraham Montel $500.00
Seder Hatephilah al Derech Hasod [prayers through the year] $5,000.00
Machzor [Festival prayers for the entire year]. With Judeo-German translation and commentary. Additional engraved title-pages depicting the Service of the High Priest and the Eating of the Paschal Lamb $1,200.00
Seder Tephila [prayers for the whole year]. According to Italian rite. With Ethics of the Fathers $1,000.00
Gebeden der Nederlandsche Israëliten [daily prayers for the entire year] $500.00
Sephirath Ha’omer [Order of the Counting of the Days of the Omer] $5,000.00
Tephilah Nechonah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews. Arranged in accordance with the daily prayer book of Shabbetai Sofer ben Isaac of Przemysl $300.00
Tephilath Yisrael [daily prayers]. According to Sephardic rite $4,000.00
Interesting collection of c. 30 Broadsides of prayers for various occasions including memorial for monarchs, jubilees and other historical occasions. SHOULD BE SEEN $2,500.00
Zikaron Yerushalayim [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Isaac Luria (Nussach AR”I) $400.00
(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Netzach Yisrael [homilies and elucidations on the Final Redemption and Messianic times] $1,800.00
(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Chibur Or Chadash [commentary to the Book of Esther] $1,500.00
(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Netzach Yisrael [homilies and elucidations on the Final Redemption and Messianic times] $600.00
(AR”I Ha’Kadosh). Sepher Ha’Kavanoth [selected kabbalistic prayers and meditations] $2,500.00
Tzaphnath Pane’ach [commentary to the Book of Ecclesiastes] $400.00
Von den Jüden und Iren Lügen [“On the Jews and their Lies”] $5,000.00
Manger, Itzik $2,500.00
Der Gantz Jüdische Glaub $6,000.00
Marpeh Le’am [medical work]. Translation of the popular Polish medical work by Karl Friedrich Politsky. Translated into Hebrew by MICHAEL LEVI FRUMKIN (RODKINSON) $700.00
De Resurrectione Mortuorum [on the resurrection of the dead] $600.00
Nishmath Chaim [on the immortality of the soul] $500.00
With commentary by Moses Maimonides (RaMBa”M) $15,000.00
Mishnayoth Seder Nezikin. With commentary by Chanoch Albeck (?) $300.00
Beith Lechem Yehudah [aggadic concordance] $600.00
Historia De Gli Riti Hebraici. Text in Italian $1,500.00
Ceremonies et Coustumes qui s’observent aujourd’huy Parmy Les Juifs. WITH: Comparaison des Ceremonies des Juifs et de la Discipline de l’Eglise $400.00
The History of the Present Jews Throughout the World. Being An ample tho Succinct Account of their Customs, Ceremonies and Manner of Living at this time...Two Supplements, One concerning the Samaritans, the other of the Sect of Carraites $600.00
Sepher MaHaRI”L [Jewish laws and customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite] $1,500.00
MOELLIN, JACOB BEN MOSES HALEVI $3,000.00
Ginsburg, J. B. An Account of the Persecution of the Protestant Mission Among the Jews at Mogador, Morocco $700.00
TOLEDANO, JACOB MOSES. Ner Hama’arav [history of the Jews of Morocco] $200.00
Lekach Tov-Be'er Moshe [Yiddish translation and novellae to the Bible] $4,000.00
(MAIMONIDES/RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]. Part II only $7,000.00
(MAIMONIDES/ RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic code]. Fourteen parts in two volumes. With commentaries $25,000.00
MOSES BEN MAIMON $700.00
Sepher Mitzvath Gadol (SM”G) [Rabbinic law] $600.00
Sepher Mitzvath Gadol (SM”G) [Rabbinic law] $900.00
MUELHAUSEN, YOM-TOV LIPMANN $5,000.00
Collection of miscellaneous books and pamphlets relating to Jewish cantorial music $900.00
Aruch Hakatzur [abridged dictionary of the Talmud] $10,000.00
*Es Dat, ò Fuego Legal. pp.(xii), 169. BOUND WITH: Eish Da’ath. ff.(1),38** $900.00
Perez Bayer, Francisco. De Numis Hebraeo-Samaritanis $900.00
(Balthazar). Philippii a Limborch. De Veritate Religionis Christianæ Amica Collatio cum Erudito Judæo $2,000.00
Shalsheleth Chachmei Ha’mishneh-Historia Doctorum Misni Corum $600.00
TRACTATUS DE JUDEORUM ET CHRISTIANORUM; Communione et Conversatione $3,000.00
Compendio de Dinim [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch] $700.00
Shulchan Hatahor [summary of laws in Karo’s Code] $1,500.00
Bikurei Ha’itim $1,000.00
*Libri Antiguitatum Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo** $1,500.00
In Libros Mosis De mundi opificio, historicos, de legibus $700.00
Minchath Cohen [Halakhic compendium] $900.00
Keseph Zaruph [commentary to the Book of Proverbs] $500.00
Marsch der israelitischen National-Garde in Warschau $700.00
Anonymous. Pharetra Catholice fidei sive y donea disputatio inter Christianos et Judeos...[“Catholic Quiver....in the Dispute between Christians and Jews’] $1,500.00
Tzemach David-Dittionario novo Hebraico [trilingual lexicon] $900.00
POMIS, DAVID DE $1,500.00
[Kabbalah]. Anonymous. A collection of mystical, magical and cosomological texts $2,000.00
Protocolle der ersten Rabbiner Bersammlung zu Braunschweig [Report of the Rabbinical Conference at Brunswick] $700.00
STEINHARDT, JACOB. Antwort.....auf eine an ihn gerichtete Zuschrift mehrerer Wähler im Pérstaer Bezirte in Betreff des Israelitischen Congresses $700.00
De Arte Cabalistica libri tres [kabbalah]. Text in Latin with extensive use of Hebrew type $8,000.00
*(Paulus Israelite”). De sexcentum et tredecim Mosaice sanctionis edictus. Eiusdem Philosophica; prophetica; ac talmudistica. * Eiusdem in cabalistarum. * Eiusdem de Novem doctrinarum ordinibus** $4,000.00
Unused ticket to a concert of the celebrated Cantor. The Edison Theater, Jerusalem. Wednesday, June 21st, 1933. Balcony Row 6, seat 15 $600.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamisha Chumshei Torah- Tikun Sophrim $1,500.00
Katzenellenbogen, David Tevele. Mayan Mei Nifto’ach [novellae to Tractate Yevamoth] $700.00
Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Chief Rabbi Judah Leib Levin $200.00
(Photographs). Group of c.37 contact-prints (few duplicates) of Caucasian Mountain Jews $1,500.00
Porath Yoseph [novellae on the works of Alfasi and Nissim b. Reuben Gerondi to Tractates Kethuboth, Chullin and Beitzah] $500.00
Sepher TaSHBa”TZ [Rabbinic law and responsa - following the decisions of R. Meir of Rothenburg] $700.00
Even Saphir [travel]. Part I: On the lives of Jews in Egypt and Yemen. Part II: On the lives of Jews in India, Singapore, Java, Australia and New Zealand. Two parts in two volumes $500.00
Memoria mirabilium Dei. Das ist von dem hochwürdigen Sacrament, dess...Fronleichnams Christi so Anno 1337 zu Duckendorf in Bayrn, von den Juden...tentiret, seithero daselbst auffgehalten und...verhret wirdt. $900.00
Ex libris stamp belonging to the authority on Jewish mysticism. Metal-cut on wooden base, inscribed in Hebrew: “From the Library of Gershom Scholem, Jerusalem.” $600.00
Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach). With Commentary by Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, ABRAHAM bEN DAVID of POSQUIERES (RAV”D), Nachmanides, etc. $1,500.00
(Attributed to. “Revealed” to Moses b. Shem Tov de Leon). Sepher Hazohar [“The Book of Splendor”] $2,000.00
(attributed to). Sepher Hazohar al HaTorah [the mystical “Book of Splendor”] $3,000.00
Mivchar Ha’peninim [“A Choice of Pearls”- ethics]. Translated from the original Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon. With an annonymous commentary $25,000.00
(RaSHB”A). Torath Habayith (Ha’katzar) [compendium of the author’s legal manual] $900.00
Chidushei HaRaSHB”A-Shevah Shitoth Le’haRaSHB”A [Talmudic novellae to seven Tractates]. On Tractates Shabbath, Rosh Ha’shana, Megilah, Sukkoth, Yevamoth, Nedarim, Baba Kamma. With glosses to Tractate Sukka by R. Yom-Tov ben Abraham $300.00
Michlal Yoffi [linguistic commentary to the Bible] $4,000.00
Lechem Setarim [commentary to the Book of Daniel and the Five Scrolls] $500.00
Collection of six Prospectuses, Broadsides and samples of various editions of the Talmud and other works $2,000.00
Masechta Menachoth [Meal Offerings]. Commentaries by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc $5,000.00
Masechta Temurah [The Substituted Offering]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc $5,000.00
Masechta Kerithoth [Extripation]. With commentary by Rashi, Tosafoth, etc $5,000.00
Seder Zeraim. With commentary by Maimonides and R. Samson (ben Abraham of Sens) $5,000.00
(TALMUD, BABYLONIAN) $40,000.00
Chizuk Emmunah [apology of Judaism and polemic against Christianity] $900.00
Bayith Ne’eman [semons and eulogies] $500.00
VENTURA, MOSES BEN JOSEPH $400.00
*Eitz Chaim [kabbalah]. SHARABI, SHALOM. Nahar Shalom [glosses to Chaim Vital’s Eitz Chaim, and Lurianic themes]** $600.00
Das Judenthum in der Musik [“Jewishness in Music”] $700.00
WEILL, EMMANUEL. La Femme Juive sa Condition Légale d’aprés la Bible et le Talmud $300.00
Seyag Latorah. $250.00
Torah Ohr. With a poem by “Asarja” (Bonajuto de Rossi) entitled Neor Einayim on the Earthquake of Ferrara, 1574-75 $2,000.00
Toldoth Adam Vechava. Sepher Meisharim [Rabbinic code]. Parts I and II bound in one volume $12,000.00
Les Enfants du Ghetto $300.00
HESS, MOSES. Rom und Jerusalem, die Letzte Nationalitätsfrage [“Rome and Jerusalem, the Ultimate National Query”] $1,500.00
“Einem Russischen Juden” [i.e. LEON (Judah Leib) PINSKER]. “Autoemancipation!” Mahnruf an seine Stammesgenossen [“A Warning Call of a Russian Jew to His Kinsmen”] $1,500.00
Herzl, Theodor. Der Judenstaat. Versuch einer Modernen Losung der Judenfrage. [“The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question”] $7,000.00
Zionisten-Congress in Basel (29, 30 und 31 August 1897) Officielles Protocoll $900.00
BEGIN, MENACHEM. Hamered $500.00
Lida, David. Sepher Sod Hashem [Mohel’s compendium] $4,000.00
Birchath Kohanim [The Priestly Blessing] $900.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $1,500.00
Chevra Marbitzei Torah-Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge $3,000.00
FERBER, TZVI HIRSCH. Zichronoth. Autograph Memoir in Hebrew of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879-1966) $10,000.00
FERBER, TZVI HIRSCH. Tzava'ah [Last Will and Testament] $5,000.00
Sepher Ibronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calender] $10,000.00
BEN ZVI, YITZCHAK $600.00
(First Prime Minister of the State of Israel, 1886-1973). Autograph Letter Signed “B-G,” in Hebrew, to Menachem Ussishkin, headed "Confidential and Personal" $3,000.00
Transit Visa for passage through the Belgian Congo en route to Great Britain issued to David Ben-Gurion (then Executive President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine) by the Belgian Consulate in Jerusalem $3,000.00
Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew on personal stationary to Prime Minister Moshe Sharett $1,500.00
*Typed Letter Signed in Hebrew on headed paper to the scholar Meir Chortiner in response to a previous letter. With envelope "From Ben-Gurion to be Hand-delivered." With Chortiner's autograph letter** $1,500.00
Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew on headed stationary to General Moshe Dayan relating his military concerns. Written when Ben-Gurion $2,000.00
Hebrew. FIVE SCROLLS & HAFTOROTH) $30,000.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehillim $18,000.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim $6,000.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND MEGILOTH). With translation into Judeo-Tatar $8,000.00
Cairo Geniza Fragments $6,000.00
KALISCH, ISAAC OF WURKA (1779-1848) $3,000.00
Guterman, Rabbi JACOB Aryeh of Radzymin (1792-1877) $2,000.00
KALISCH, JACOB DAVID OF AMSHINOV (1814-1878) $1,500.00
Kalisch, Shimon of Skernewice (1858-1927) $700.00
Yair, Simcha. Rabbi of Piotrikow (1831-1911) $600.00
Group of twelve Autographed Letters and other items from various Chassidic Rabbis to Rabbi David Aryeh Leib Ehlstein $2,500.00
CHAIKIN, SHIMON MENASHE. (First Rabbi of Hebron) $400.00
FRIEDMAN, YISRAEL (Rebbe of Chortkov. 1854-1934) $500.00
(RABBI PINCHOS OF KORETZ, 1726-1791) $900.00
Teitelbaum, Rabbi Joel of Satmar $3,000.00
(1915- 1981, Israeli military leader and politician) $700.00
(Physicist and Noble Prize winner. 1879-1955). Typed Letter Signed in English to Mr. B.A. Blankenfeld, Director of Jerusalem Art Gallery stating that he would be glad to serve as a member of the sponsor's committee $2,500.00
KIMCHI, DAVID (RaDa’K). Sepher Michlol [grammar] $70,000.00
(Dean of the Mir Yeshivah, Jerusalem). Bank-book of Palestine-British Bank Ltd $500.00
Pinkas Shelichuth. Containing novellae, hymns and some financial accounts $1,800.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA) $6,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach [According to Roman rite] $9,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach $1,500.00
HERZL, THEODOR $3,000.00
Typed Letter Signed in German, on stationary headed "Erez Israel. Bureau des Zionisten Congresses." To Menachem Ussishkin thanking him for his extraordinary work. Signed "with greetings from Zion" $1,500.00
(Dean of the Rabbiner Seminar, Berlin. 1829-1899) $400.00
Eicha [Lamentations]. For use by the Jews of Cochin $2,000.00
Diaz de Cienfuegos, Pedro (Inquisidor of Majorca). Order of Expenses. Ordering payment of one thousand ducats for the expenses of the Inquisition on behalf of the widow Dona Juana Dameto against Nicolas Tugones y Montañas $600.00
Sefer Mitzvoth Katan (SeMa"K) [“Small Book of Precepts”] $18,000.00
Seating Plan of the Italian Synagogue at Mantua $4,000.00
Two Letters of approbations for the works of Rabbi Daniel Terni, author of Seudath Mitzvah, Venice 1791. Signed by the Rabbis of Ancona: Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon Shabbtai Sinigaglia (author of Shabbat Shel Me, 1790) and Rabbi Mordechai Raphael Shimshon Vitro $1,500.00
(Luria, Isaac. (AR”I) & Jacob Temerls). Kabbalistic essays $5,000.00
Manual of Practical Kabbalah and Magic $5,000.00
(Son of the Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi and President of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, Radin) $700.00
Medjuma. Karaite manuscript containing a miscellaneous collection of folkloristic texts, prayers, poems, hymns and proverbs $2,500.00
Autograph Letter Signed "ISH," in Hebrew concerning a plot of land in Bnei Brak belonging to the Chazon Ish $2,500.00
Marriage Contract. Copper-engraving on vellum. Text in brown ink, Sephardi cursive Hebrew script. Uniting Aaron ben Abraham Mendes da Costa and Rebecca, daughter of Abraham Mendes de Leon. SIGNED BY DANIEL BEN DAVID COHEN D’AZEVEDO $7,000.00
Marriage Contract $600.00
Marriage Contract $600.00
(Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land. 1865-1935). Autograph Letter Signed and dated, in Hebrew on headed stationary to Rabbi Prof. Peretz Chayot of Vienna $500.00
Azharah Le’rabim [“Public Warning”] $900.00
Prayer Book and Hymns [Prayers for weekdays, Sabbath, Festivals, Circumcision and Marriage] $900.00
Sefirath Ha’omer- V'seder Leil Pesach $1,500.00
Machzor [Festival prayers for Passover and Festival of Pentecost]. According to Sephardic rite $2,500.00
Seder Avodah [sacrificial order of the Day of Atonement] $2,000.00
Siddur [morning prayers with extensive Kabbalistic meditations]. Kavanoth seemingly by Shalom Sharabi and others $1,200.00
(Prime Minister of Israel) $900.00
(Celebrated Philosopher of the German Enlightenment. 1729-1786). Autograph Letter Signed "Hakatan Moshe Me'Dessau," in Hebrew, to the communal leader and businessman Rabbi Elchanan $7,000.00
Portions of Tractates Negaim and Parah $9,000.00
Autograph Letter Signed to one Rabbi Moshe informing him that he cited his name at the graves of Rabbi Menachem Mendel (of Vitebsk) and Rabbi Abraham of Kalisk. He concludes that he has not yet found " a resting place for my feet and thoughts." $600.00
(MAIMONIDES/ RaMBa”M). Mishnah Torah [Rabbinic Code]. Hilchot Gerushin (divorce) and Yibum Ve'chalitzah (Levirate marriage). Contains most of the thirteen chapters on divorce and seven of eight chapters on other aspects of marriage $6,000.00
(Rabbi of Lida, founder of Mizrachi) $600.00
Halachic Ruling Signed by members of the the Beth Din of Safed. Concerns matters pertaining to the construction of dwellings bordering a Chassidic synagogue $400.00
Arhavta Kadishta (Fragments of the Samaritan Bible). Contains: Genesis 45: 14-46, 24; 48: 18-49, 32; Exodus 25: 30-26, 22; 28: 21-30, 37 $10,000.00
(1890-1960. The Last Major Figure of the New York Yiddish Theater). A Collection of c.34 Autographed Letters Signed; also telegrams, postcards, photographs (one signed) and newspaper clippings and printed ephemera relating to Maurice Schwartz $3,000.00
Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach) $70,000.00
Collection of 5 letters, documents and a postcard all addressed to R. Joseph Nechemia Kornitzer of Cracow, relating to the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin and other matters concerning Polish Jewry $900.00
(Rabbi of Rogowa). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, concerning a marriage proposal for his daughter to the son of the Rabbi of Uzda. He states that the Rabbi of Oshmina approved of this match $400.00
Peirush RaSH”I al Masecheta Beitzah $30,000.00
(Rabbi of Kovno) & Rabinowitz, Tzvi Hirsch (son of R. Isaac Elchanan Spektor) $600.00
(The Father of Modern Hebrew Bibliography) $500.00
(Rabbi of Machnovka, son of Rabbi Abraham Heschel of Skver) $1,800.00
Collection of memorabilia, photographs, correspondence and ephemera of the Unna Family $700.00
(First President of Israel). Typed Letter Signed, in French, concerning financial matters. Written whilst engaged in research at the Featherstone Laboratories in London $1,000.00
Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew, to the Knesset Chairman, requesting that he be allowed to celebrate his upcoming 75th birthday without public celebration, “certain matters are better kept quiet...I am not in a holiday mood.” $1,200.00
Weibertefille $3,000.00
In Tavel fun Vent [“On the Tablet on the Wall]. By DAVID HOFSTEIN $600.00
Shrom [“Stream”]. MonthlyYiddish periodical. Nos. 5-6 $900.00
Fun der Vaytns [“From Afar”]. A drama by TZVI HIRSCHKORN $2,500.00
By the Waters of Babylon-Jewish Lyric Verse in World Poetry [poetry]. Text in Cyrillic $2,000.00
Sichath Chulin [“Small Talk or, The Legend of Prague”]. Folk tale of Jewish Messianistic hope by Moshe Broderzon $2,500.00
Engel, J(oel). “Freilekhs Dance” [sheet music] $1,500.00
Kultur un Bildung [“Culture and Education”-journal] $900.00
(LISSITZKY, ELIEZER) $8,000.00
Gan Yeladim Series: Ha’tochen, Ha’tocheneth Ve’avnei Ha’reichaim [“The Miller, His Wife and Their Millstones”]. Children’s story by BEN-ZION RASKIN (“Uncle Ben-Zion”) $7,000.00
Saminsky, L. “Ani Hadal” [sheet music] $700.00
Mayselech far Kleinike Kinderlach [“Little Tales for Little Children”]. Children’s stories by MIRIAM MARGOLIN $3,000.00
Kinder Velt [“Children’s World]. Classic Children’s Nursery rhymes translated into Yiddish $3,000.00
Foyglen [“Birds”]. Children’s poetry by LEIB KVITKO $3,000.00
In Vald [“in the Forest”]. Children’s book by LEIB KVITKO $3,000.00
Shtetl. Mayn Chorever Heym, a Gedeknish [“My Destroyed Home. A Memorial”] $3,000.00
Tpnoyha-Tribuna. No. 10 $700.00
Baginen [“Beginning.”] Volume One. A monthly periodical $900.00
Der Gelanger Hon [“The Arrogant Rooster”]. A children’s tale by PERETZ MARKISH $2,000.00
Knaknisi un Moyenkayser [“The Nutcracker and King Rat”]. Classic tale by Ernst Theodore Hoffman. Translated from the German by L. RESNICK $900.00
30 Jahr in Argentina [“Thirty Years in Argentina”]. Memoirs of a Jewish Colonist by MORDECHAI ALPERSON $700.00
“1919” [Poetry]. Collected poems by LEIB KVITKO $700.00
(TCHAIKOV, JOSEPH). $900.00
Rakowsky, Leonti. The Prodigal Devil [short story]. Text in Cyrillic $700.00
Sammelmappe. Complete Set of twelve Color Plates, reproducing the Artist’s Work. German introduction $900.00
The Song of Songs $400.00
The Jerusalem Windows $900.00
Scènes Familiales Juives $700.00
Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach $900.00
Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-Leben $1,000.00
The Jew at Home. Impressions of a Summer and Autumn spent with him $300.00
Group of c.106 postcards of Jewish genre types. Some with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $4,000.00
Group of c.98 European anti-Semitic postcards. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $6,000.00
Group of c.89 postcards of American-Judaic interest. Many with inscriptions on verso. Contained within Album $2,500.00
Birnbaum, Uriel. Kunstkarten des Agudas Yisroel Jugendgruppe. Complete set of ten postcards designed by Birnbaum, housed in original printed wrapper $200.00
Chageinu - Our Holidays $400.00
Personal Surrealism $700.00
*By Sarah Wilkinson. 292 illustrations including 117 color plates. New York, circa 1973. Rubin. By Alfred Werner. 44 plates. Tel Aviv, 1958** $200.00
Hallelujah. The One-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Psalm $400.00
Holitscher, Arthur. Gesang an Palästina $900.00
(Pseud. Moi Ver). The Ghetto Lane in Vilna $500.00
Nisseles Trer $200.00
D. Moor. Boldly graphic poster urging people away from religion and forward into the Revolution. Accomplished in red, blue, yellow, green, purple and black. Russian text $1,000.00
Elderly Man Huddled by Furnace. Signed by artist in pencil, bottom right $600.00
Fifty Year Calendar (1901-1950). Portraying detailed Hebrew tables, masterfully designed. Bordered by many cameo portraits of early and later Rabbis. Published by Horowitz Publishers $300.00
*The Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Benjamin** $700.00
Wasser-Reifen. Satirical Journal. Two poster advertisements with caricatures bearing uncanny resemblance to Marc and Bella Chagall. $1,500.00
Leipzig Book Fair. Signed and dated by artist, lower right $2,500.00
Man seated with book. Signed by artist in pencil bottom right and in plate lower left $600.00
Micrographic Lithographed View of Jerusalem. Lithograph, framed. Lightly stained and clean tear on left margin not affecting image or text. $3,000.00
Mizrach. With central map of Israel surrounded by vignettes of the holy sites. Commemorative gift from Kolel Chibath Jerusalem, $400.00
(Mizrach). Mitzad Zeh Ruach Chaim Segulah Niphlah...Meharav Hagaon SHIMSHON OSTRAPoLI [protective prayer especially effective in times of disease and distress]. Within typographical border. Woodcut vignettes of Jerusalem. Broadside. $700.00
ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES. Signed by the artist in pencil below the limitation $500.00
Karawanserei. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right, artist's monogram in plate $900.00
Young Farmer. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right, artist's monogram in plate $600.00
On the Way to Vienna (Captured Russians). Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right $700.00
Syrischer Hirte. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right, artist's monogram in plate $900.00
The Village of Shiloah? Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right $900.00
Donkey Riders. Signed by Lilien in pencil lower right, artist's monogram in plate $700.00
Western Hemisphere, in two dimensional globe form. All captioned in Hebrew $700.00
"Yor-Tzeit" plaque for Anselem Rothschild $900.00
Half-length portrait. Mezzotint. Good margins $1,500.00
Synagogue Mizrach plaque. Text in Hebrew and English, printed in gold and purple. With image of the rising sun on upper portion, Torah scrolls and Decalogues on either side and above $1,500.00
Map of Odessa showing the "Techum Shabbos" - boundaries permitted to walk on the Sabbath $700.00
Two Peasants Jews Quarrelling. Signed. $1,800.00
Les Docteur De la Loi; Rishonim and Achronim. Vignettes of eighteen prominent early and later spiritual leaders of Judaism. An early depiction of important Rabbinical figures widely common in contemporary posters $700.00
Nursing Mother. Signed by artist lower right $1,500.00
Portrait of Peace. Signed by artist lower right $1,500.00
His Majesty. Movie poster. Depicting famous Russian actor L. Leonidov playing two roles. The first of a Jewish shoemaker who organized a riot against social unjustice, and the second an authoritarian officer. $900.00
RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER $5,000.00
Bust portrait of an Eastern European woman. Signed by artist lower right $4,000.00
Prayers in the Synagogue. Signed by artist in Hebrew and English, bottom left $6,000.00
Seven “Ushpizin” Guests who symbolically visit each Sukah, with appropriate text in Hebrew. Printed in green and beige $600.00
Sabbath Eve. Signed by artist in pencil, bottom right $500.00
Morning Prayers at the House of Mourning. Signed by artist bottom right $5,000.00
Remember the "Altalena." Text in Hebrew. Printed in red, blue and black ink $1,500.00

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AUCTION 15

March 12, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Product Title	AUCTION 15
Auction Date	Mar 11, 2002
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
International Price	$0.00
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Short Description	AUCTION 15 - MARCH 12TH 2002 Auction of Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners including: The Hallegua Family of Cochin, India Selections from the Library of the Late Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber of London (including his unpublished memoirs). The Library of Mr. Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Connecticut Together With: A Significant Collection of Early Twentieth Century Russian-Jewish Illustrated Books Sale Fifteen, held on March 12th, 2002, generated enthusiasm in the Judaica market with a broad collection of Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art from the Library of Mr. Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Connecticut, the Library of the Late Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber of London (including his unpublished memoirs), The Hallegua Family of Cochin, India, and A Significant Collection of Early Twentieth Century Russian-Jewish Illustrated Books. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SALE: (prices include 15% buyer’s premium) (HAGADAH). Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. THE SECOND MANTUA HAGADAH. EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT AND ELUSIVE. RARER THAN THE FIRST EDITION. SINCE THE WAR, ONLY THE PRESENT COPY HAS APPEARED AT PUBLIC AUCTION. Mantua, Joseph Shalit ben Jacob Aschkenazi, 1568. Sold for $86,250. Lot 194. (BIBLE, Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehillim. Square Spanish Hebrew hand with vocalization and accents On Vellum.ff. 159. Initial word illuminated with decorative flourishes in red, green and black inks. 16mo. Spain, 15th Century. Sold for more than six times the low estimate at $80,500. Lot 435. (Bible, Hebrew. FIVE SCROLLS & HAFTOROTH). On Vellum. Wide margins. Initial words illuminated with decorative flourishes in red, green and black ink. Double columns of twenty-seven lines. Germany, 13th Century. Sold for over twice the low estimate at $63,250.Lot 434. MENDELSSOHN, MOSES. (Celebrated Philosopher of the German Enlightenment. 1729-1786). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew. Berlin, 29th Teveth, 1779. Sold for $9,775.Lot 483 SCHOR, ILYA. Prayers in the Synagogue. An uncommonly large canvas with a most distinctive Cubist influence, vibrant in color and style. Signed by artist, framed. Acrylic on board. American, circa 1950. Sold for $3,000. Lot 575

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