Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

AUCTION 23

March 30, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

AUCTION 23 - MARCH 30TH 2004
Kestenbaum & Company Sells the Third Portion of
Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts
from the Rare Book Room of
The Jews' College Library, London on March 30th

New York, April 2, 2004 — A first edition Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) with commentary by Moses Isserles, Cracow, 1578-80, (Lot 139) brought in $74,750 (against an estimate of $30,000-40,000) making it the top seller at Kestenbaum & Company’s sale of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews’ College Library, London on March 30th. This Third Part of the Library which was offered completes a highly successful trilogy of sales which began with Parts I & II in December 2002 and December 2003.

Several Bibles found particular favor with buyers. A single volume of the exceedingly rare vellum issue of the Plantin Polyglot Bible, one of only thirteen complete sets which were printed on vellum, on personal commission from King Philip II of Spain, Antwerp, 1569-72, sold extremely well, reaching $54,050 against an estimate of $20,000-30,000 (Lot 51). Also bringing high prices were a Polyglot Bible, Hutter’s Hexaglot Old Testament and 12-language New Testament, Nuremburg, for Elias Hutter: 1599, which realized $24,150 (Lot 55) and a nine-volume Hebrew Bible printed in Paris, 1543-46, in a fine contemporary binding that attained $26,450 against an estimate of $15,000-18,000 (Lot 49).

Further highlights from the Book Section included the First Illustrated Amsterdam Passover Hagadah with commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and copperplate engravings, 1695, which sold for $23,000 (Lot 105) and a rare first edition of Bachayeh Ben Asher’s Kad Hakemach [philosophy and ethics] that was bought for $20,700 (Lot 40).

Highlights from the Manuscripts Section of the sale included a 14th century manuscript of one of the most important, classical early Biblical Commentaries by Levi Ben Gershom (Gersonides), Biur Sefer Daniel, Ezra, Divrei Hayamim which realized $46,000 (Lot 222); a French 18th century single leaf Shevithi on vellum, which sold for $21,850 (210); and a Kabbalistic scroll, rarely seen at auction, featuring a diagram of the arrangement of the spiritual cosmos, possibly German, 18th century, which garnered $17,250 (Lot 217).

Also of note was a complete unpublished literary manuscript of a prominent early American Jew, Isaac Gomez, Jr., New York, 1825. After spirited bidding, it sold for a high price of $34,500 against an estimate of $6,000-9,000 (Lot 12A).

Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction will be on June 29, 2004: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Ceremonial and Graphic Art From the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg, Greenwich, Conn.

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Grouped product items
Product Name
(BIBLE, $25,000.00
(BIBLE) $1,800.00
(GERMANY) $700.00
(GRAMMAR) $700.00
(LITURGY). $500.00
ARAMA, MEIR $1,200.00
Yoseph Ometz $500.00
MINZI, JUDAH $1,500.00
(PHILOSOPHY) $700.00
(FRANKFURT). $20,000.00
(PHILOSOPHY) $50,000.00
Miphaloth Elo-him [“The Deeds of God” on the question of creation ex nihilo, miracles and prophecy] $300.00
(“Leone Ebreo”). Dialoghi di Amore. $500.00
*Tzurath Ha’aretz. With (as issued): ELIJAH MIZRACHI. Kitzur Malecheth Hamispar.** $2,500.00
ABUDRAHAM, DAVID. $600.00
Shailoth Uteshuvoth HaRaSHB”A [responsa] $500.00
(AGADAH, MIDRASH ETC). $3,000.00
ALBELDA, MOSES $700.00
Tephilah Le’moshe [sermons and homilies to the Pentateuch, with treatise on the reading of the Shema upon retirement] $4,000.00
Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies] $500.00
Yedai Moshe [homilies to the Five Scrolls] $600.00
Torath Moshe. Two parts in one volume. $1,200.00
ABOAB DA FONSECA, ISAAC. Parafrasis commentada sobre el Pentateuco $4,000.00
Broadside attacking Mordecai M. Noah signed “F.L. Macculloch.” $2,000.00
DICKSON’S PALESTINE MUSEUM $1,500.00
Tephilah Mikol Hashanah...Lehanossim Lemedinath America [prayers of the entire year] $1,500.00
Benjamin, Judah P. The Kansas Question. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of LA. Delivered in (the) Senate of the United States on May 2, 1856 [In defense of slavery] $1,500.00
Origin of the Rites and Worship of the Hebrews. Minutely detailed engraving by Julius Bien.. 640x950 mm sheet size. Heavily stained $4,000.00
Benjamin, Judah P. Relations of States. Speech of the Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Delivered in the Senate of the U.S. May 8, 1860. On the Resolutions Submitted by the Hon. Jefferson Davis... $3,000.00
The African Slave Trade: The Secret Purpose of the Insurgents to Revive It: No Treaty Stipulations Against the Slave Trade to Be Entered into with the European Powers: Judah P. Benjamin’s Intercepted Instructions to L.Q.C. Lamar $1,500.00
Bericht uber die Bildung der Ersten Niederlassung Russischer Juden ...zu Catahoula Parish, Louisiana... $1,500.00
(Bibliography). Catalogue of the Leeser Library. Compiled by Cyrus Adler $1,500.00
WEINBERGER, MOSES. Hayehudim Vehayahaduth B’New York $500.00
Rabinowitz, Mayer. HaMachana’im : A Study of the Bonflict between Orthodox and Reform in Judaisim $300.00
Kibutz Selichoth Utephiloth Leyom Chamisha Asar Lechodesh Kislev. Minhag Chevra Kadisha Vilna. $300.00
EISENSTADT, BEN ZION (Editor). Otzer Hatemunoth [photographic portraits of the Great Rabbis] $300.00
SAVITSKY, YITZCHAK. Atereth Yitzchak $200.00
Centenial Anniversary. Sir Moses Montefiore. United Hebrew Services at Rodef Shalom Synagogue, Philadelphia. Sunday Evening, October 26th 1884. [prayers and orations in his honor] $1,000.00
*YOCHANAN B. ISAAC OF HOELLESCHAU (Editor). Teshuvath Hageonim [responsa concerning the correct pronunciation of the name of God]. WITH: Ma’aseh Rav [halachic polemic]** $1,800.00
(Playbill). The Jew $2,000.00
(MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES). De Hoofscommisie tet de Zaken der Israeliten by Y.H. de Castro $700.00
The Centenary of Sir Moses Montefiore $900.00
(ANGLO-JUDAICA) $1,200.00
Garzoni, Tomaso. La Sinagoga de gl’ignoranti [“The Synagogue of the Ignorant”] $600.00
Der Juedische Kipper und Wechsler [“The Kippur Jew and the Money-Changer.”] $2,000.00
(ANTISEMITICA). $1,500.00
(Commonly misattributed to Jonah Gerondi). Isur Veheter [dietary and medical laws] $900.00
Margalioth Tovah [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch] $700.00
Sefer ha-Shorashim / Liber Radicum…Lexicon Ebraicum, in quo omnium vocabulorum biblicorum [] $900.00
Kad Hakemach [philosophy and ethics] $20,000.00
BACHAYE BEN ASHER. $4,000.00
Sifthei Yesheinim [bibliography] $6,000.00
Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855 $1,500.00
*Hebrew). Derech Ha’kodesh-Via Sancta. Prepared by Elias Hutter. WITH: Hutter, Elias. Cubus Alphabeticus Sanctae Ebraeae Linguae. ff. (30). [Adams H-1243]. (Hamburg: Jacob Wolf, 1588)** $15,000.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehilim with commentaries by R. David Kimchi (RaDa”K) and R. Joseph Chayun (ReYa”CH) $10,000.00
Hebrew). (Pentateuch) $1,500.00
Hebrew). Arba Ve’esrim. With Nikud (vowel-points) $1,500.00
Hebrew). Complete, bound in nine volumes $18,000.00
Hebrew). With commentaries of Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi (two), Targum etc. $5,000.00
Polyglot). Vol. III : Kethuvim / Hagiographa / Sancti Libri [Writings]. Part 1: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esdras III and IV, Tobias, Judith, Esther, Job. * Part 2: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ecclesiasticus. Entirely Printed on Vellum $30,000.00
Hebrew and Latin). Biblia Hebraica $1,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] $2,500.00
Polyglot. PSALMS). Psalterium in Quatvor Linguis Hebraea Graeca Chaldaea Latina. Text printed in four columns across double-page. Hebrew, Greek, Amharic (Ethiopian)- not Chaldee, and Latin. Edited by Johann Potken, with the assistance of Johann Soter $5,000.00
*Biblia Sacra. Genesis-Ruth. And: Hutter’s or The Nuremberg Polyglot New Testament.** $25,000.00
Hebrew, Latin and Greek). Biblia Hebraica. - Novum Testamentum Graecum. Interlinear Latin translation by Arias Montanus. Individual title-pages each with elaborate woodcut devices $600.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumashei Torah (-end) $4,000.00
Hebrew. Psalms, with Proverbs, Job and the Five Scrolls). Psalmi Davidis Hebraici, cum interlineari versione Xantis Pagnini $900.00
Hebrew). Nevi’im Rishonim [Early Prophets] $400.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] $900.00
Hebrew). Biblia Sacra Hebraea $900.00
Judeo-German). Followed by the “To’aliyoth” (moral lessons to be gleaned from the various books of the Bible) of Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (RaLBa”G or Gersonides) on Joshua, Judges and Samuel $1,200.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] $700.00
Hebrew). Kehilath Moshe. With numerous commentaries includng Ralbag, Chizkuni, Sforno, Imrei Noam, Kometz Hamincha $2,000.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH, AND FIVE SCROLLS). Tikun Sopherim $1,500.00
Hebrew and Yiddish). With commentary of Rashi $1,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS & HAPHTAROTH). With Targum Onkelos, commentaries of Rashi, Jacob ben Asher and Sifthei Chachamim by Shabbetai Bass $1,500.00
Hebrew and Latin). Biblia Hebraica. Torah, Nevi’im u-Kethuvim. With Latin translation by Sebastian Schmidt $600.00
Hebrew and Yiddish). Torah, Nevi’im u-Kethuvim $1,500.00
Hebrew). Nevi’im Rishonim, Acharonim and Kethuvim. With commentary Ayalah Sheluchah by R. Naftali Hirsch Altschuler. Judaeo-German translation Magishei Minchah and additional commentary Machaneh Asher by R. Asher Anshil Danziger $1,500.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah and Megilloth with Rashi, Targum and the Biur by Moses Mendelsohn $4,000.00
(BIBLE COMMENTARIES ETC). $700.00
Mai, Johann Heinrich (the younger). Bibliotheca Offenbachiana MSS.…Catalogus et Recensio Msstorum Codicum qui in Biblotheca Zachariae Conradi ab Offenbach (Catalogue of Mss. in Library of Zacharia Conrad of Offenbach) $1,200.00
Machzor shel Kol Hashana (Part II). [Paryers for the month of Tishrei]. According to Italian rite $1,500.00
(Liturgy). Kos Yeshuoth- Die vollständigen Gebete der Israeliten für das ganze Jahr [daily prayers for the entire year] $3,000.00
Synagoga Judaica [Description of Jewish Life and Customs] $600.00
Tiberias sive Commentarius Masorethicus Triplex [Commentary to the Tiberian Masorah of the Bible] $900.00
Dissertationes Philologico-Theologicae [Philologico-Theological Dissertations] $700.00
Collection of six Jewish Calendars. 1806, 1861,1862,1863,1864,1878 $700.00
CALIFARA, ISRAEL SAMUEL $2,500.00
Las Excelencias de los Hebreos [“The Admirable Qualities of the Jewish People]” $7,000.00
SHALEM, SOLOMON. Shoneh Halachoth. Two parts in one volume. [commentary to Halachoth Gedoloth] $1,500.00
Aaron Hakohen of Apt and Zelichov. Or ha-Ganuz le-Tzadikim [sermons on Pentateuch based on Shne’or Zalman of Liadi’s Tanya] $1,500.00
ASHER TZVI BEN DAVID OF KORETZ AND OSTROG. Ma’ayan HaChachmah $600.00
(CHASSIDISM). $900.00
Shabbata de-Rigla [Sermons for Festivals] $700.00
(CLEVES GET CONTROVERSY). $700.00
Ben Shmuel (Sermons for various occasions) $600.00
Reshith Chochmah ha-Katzar $900.00
Midrash Shmuel [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers] $1,200.00
DI UCEDA, SAMUEL $500.00
(DICTIONARIES, LEXICONS) $600.00
*Amudei Shomayim. Sha’arei Shomayim** $1,800.00
Seder Olam Rabah Vezuta Umegilath Ta’anith [anonymous historical narrative]. With commentary by Jacob Emden $4,000.00
(EMDEN, JACOB) $5,000.00
FIGO, AZARIAH $600.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA) $500.00
(FRENCH JUDAICA). $5,000.00
Dietz, Alexander Dr. Stammbuch der Frankfurter Juden…Frankfurter Jüdischen Familien von 1359-1849, nebst einem Plane der Judengasse [“Book of Genealogy of Frankfurt Jewry… Frankfurt Jewish Families from 1349-1849, includes map of Jews’ Street.”] $400.00
(Ra”N). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa] $2,000.00
ASCHKENAZI, ELIEZER BEN ELIJAH HA’ROPHE. Ma’asei Hashem [commentry to the Six Days of Creation, Chapters of the Fathers, the Passover Hagadah (with text) and various Biblical portions] $1,500.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel $25,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. $1,200.00
Hagadah Seder shel Pesach. With commentary of Abrabanel and a Kabbalistic commentary “al pi sod.” $1,500.00
Beith Chorin. With commentaries $6,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata $1,800.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. According to the rite of Baghdad. With Judeao- Arabic translation $600.00
The Augsburg (1534) Hagadah. Facsimile Edition $1,500.00
HAI BEN SHERIRA. $1,500.00
(HALACHAH ETC.) $1,200.00
[Kuzari] Liber Cosri [philosophy]. Translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon. Introduction, translation and notes in Latin by JOHANNES BUXTORF $1,200.00
Nachlath Ya’akov [responsa] $1,500.00
(HIRSCHIANA). $900.00
(HISTORY ETC.) $700.00
Rokeach, Aaron, Grand Rabbi of Belz. Haderech $1,200.00
(HOMILETICS ETC.) $1,800.00
Lashon Limudim [grammar] $2,500.00
Tzedah laDerech [“Provision for the Way”] $900.00
Megilath Esther [commentary on the Sefer Hamitzvoth of Maimonides] $2,000.00
Shoshanath Yaakov $2,000.00
(RYBa”SH). Teshuvoth Harav [responsa] $2,000.00
(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah [abridgment of Moses of Coucy’s Sepher Mitzvath Gadol] $900.00
Olath Yitzchak [Jewish laws in the interogatory “heichi timtza”style] $1,500.00
Sha’arei Dura $6,000.00
Biurim [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch] $900.00
Regola…Natione Hebrea di Ferrara [Regulations of the Jewish Community of Ferrara] $2,000.00
*Tur Orach Chaim. And: Tur Yoreh Deah** $7,000.00
Tur Even Ha’ezer [Rabbinic code] $1,200.00
Arbah Turim [Rabbinic code] $3,000.00
JACOB BEN ASHER $3,000.00
Yefeh Mareh [on the Aggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud] $700.00
*KARO, JOSEPH. Magid Mesharim [mystical diary in the form of a Kabbalistic-homiletical commentary to the Pentateuch]. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. VIDAS, ELIJAH DE, Reishith Chochmah.** $600.00
GIKATILLA, JOSEPH, Sha’arei Orah [an exposition of Kabbalistic symbolism and the designations of the Sephiroth with commentary by Mattathiahu Delacrut and additional notes by R. Eliahu Segal of Frankfurt] $400.00
ABRAHAM BER GOTTLOBER. Bikoreth Le-Toldoth Ha-Karaim [ critical study of the history of the Karaites] $250.00
Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. THE FIRST EDITION With Commentary by Moses Isserles (ReM”A) $40,000.00
Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law] $6,000.00
(Attributed to). Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code] $900.00
(RaDa”K). Sepher Michlol [grammar] $7,000.00
(RaDa”K). Sepher Ha’Shorashim [“Book of Roots;” Biblical lexicon and grammar] $700.00
KIMCHI, DAVID $3,000.00
Avodath Yisrael [Commentary to Seder Avodah, the Temple Service recited on Yom Kippur] $500.00
[Halachic compendium]. Anonymous $500.00
Shlomo Shlomil ben Chaim. Shivchei Ha’Ari [in praise of Isaac Luria]. Text in Judeo-Spanish $250.00
RELAND, HADRIAN. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata $1,500.00
HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chivath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the holy sites of Eretz Israel] $900.00
SCHWARZ, JOSEPH. Das Heilige Land $2,000.00
Saphir, Jacob (“Even Sapir.”) . Gai Chizayon [in praise of Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore upon their arrival to the Eretz Israel] $600.00
Shaarei Dimah Ve-yehoshuah [prayers to be recited by the Western Wall and other holy places, with a kabbalistic interpretation]. Edited by R. Aaron Moshe Friedenson of Slonim $1,200.00
Ezra Benveniste. Chayei Moshe Ve-Yehudith $300.00
LEUSDEN, JOHANN. $1,500.00
Lev, Joseph ben David Ibn $3,000.00
*Sepher Masoreth Ha’masoreth. Sepher Tuv Ta’am [on cantillation points and grammatical accents]** $1,200.00
Sepher Meturgamon [Aramaic dictionary]. With the Author’s introduction in Hebrew and Latin (usually lacking) $1,500.00
(LEXICONS, DICTIONARIES, GRAMMAR ETC). $1,200.00
Machzor Le’nusach Barcelona Minhag Catalonia [Festival prayers for the New Year and Day of Atonement]. According to the Custom of Barcelona and Catalonia] $10,000.00
Selichot VeKinoth al HaGezeiroth Ra’oth... Shnath Ta”ch Veta”t [LAMENTATIONS FOR the MASSACRES OF 1648- 49]. Composed by R. Shabbetai Katz (author of the Shach). With an introduction and poems with acrostic of his name $3,000.00
Spanish). Orden de las Oraciones Contidianas. With Calendar for the years 1696-1702 at end (with separate title). pp.505, (3), (10). Opening title within architectural arch. 1695 $5,000.00
Or Kadmon [“Primordial Light” -supplications by David ibn Zimra, et al]. Edited by MOSES BEN JACOB CHAGIZ $700.00
Machzor Mikol HaShana. According to the rite of Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, Russia and Lithuania $1,200.00
Spanish). Orden de las Oraciones de los Cinco Ayunos $900.00
Bakashah...With commentary by Moshe Narol Katz $700.00
Machzor - Sepher Kerovoth [Festival Prayers] $2,500.00
Tephilath Ovrei Derachim [Traveler’s prayers] $1,500.00
Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Solomon Schlieffer $200.00
Zera Yitzchak [novellae to the Talmud, with supplement on Maimonides] $1,500.00
(RaMCHa”L). Mesilath Yesharim [ethics] $200.00
Jüdische Chronologie Vol. I (all published) $300.00
Sepher ha’Galuth Veha’Peduth [“Exile and Deliverance”] $4,000.00
Zacutus Lusitanus. De Medicorum Principum Historia Libri Sex $1,200.00
Amaroth Tehoroth [Kabbalah]. With commentary “Yad Yehudah” by Judah Leib ben Simon $600.00
De Resurrectione Mortuorum [on the resurrection of the dead] $700.00
*Tzeror Hachaim. De Termino Vitae. With: Another copy** $1,200.00
MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL $1,500.00
With commentary by Moses Maimonides and Obadiah Bertinoro $2,500.00
Mishnayoth with Nekudoth (punctuation) and a dictionary of difficult words $1,000.00
Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch] $1,500.00
Historia de Gli Riti Hebraici. [History of the Hebrew Rites] $1,800.00
RaMBa”M). Mishneh Torah [Rabbinic Code] $1,500.00
/RaMBa”N). Torath Ha’adam [laws concerning the sick, the dying and the after-life] $400.00
Fünf Reden / Devarim Achadim [Five Discourses: Four German sermons and a halachic shi’ur in Hebrew, delivered on the Day of Atonement and Shemini Atzereth 5673/1912] $200.00
*Toldoth Aaron [Biblical concordance to the Talmud]. Third edition. Sasportas, Jacob. Toldoth Jacob [supplement providing references to Jerusalem Talmud]. FIRST EDITION. Two works in one (as issued)** $900.00
Les Ouvres de Philon Juif (The Works of Philo Judaeus) $900.00
Tzvachah al Ha-Yayin $300.00
(RASHI AND COMMENTARIES THEREON) $500.00
*Terumath Ha-deshen. D. Bomberg, 1519. Sheiloth Uteshuvoth Mahrsha”l, Lublin, 1575. * Sheiloth Uteshuvoth Mahri”k. Cremona, 1557. And three others, similar** $1,500.00
Chazah Tzion [commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text] $1,000.00
*Sepher haTechiyah veSepher haPeduth. Sepher haPeduth vehaPurkan (Parts I and II of same work, both published in Mantua 1556) [on the Resurrection of the Dead]** $1,500.00
Aschkenazi, Tzvi Hirsch (“Chacham Tzvi”). Eduth LeYisrael [polemic against Nechemiah Chiya Chayon] $3,000.00
Moses Chagiz. Lema’an Da’ath $3,000.00
Neveh Shalom [philosophy] $400.00
Drashoth Ha’Torah [sermons on the Pentateuch and on Repentance] $1,500.00
*Be'er Moshe (Pentateuch and Five Scrolls). Lekach Tov (Prophets and Writings). [An interlinear glossary-like Yiddish translation of the Bible]** $1,500.00
(TRADITIONALLY ATTRIBUTED TO, actually, Moses de Leon). Sepher Hazohar [“The Book of Splendor”] $25,000.00
(Traditionally Attributed to). Sepher Shivim Tikunei Hazohar [Kabbalah]. With commentary “Chemdath Tzvi” by Tzvi Hirsch ben Jerachmiel Chotsch of Cracow $900.00
(TRADITONALLY ATTRIBUTED TO). Tikunei Zohar. With commentary Kevod Hamelech by R. Chaim Vital $1,000.00
Seder Hanikur [on the porging of meat] $4,000.00
*Sepher HaChinuch. First edition.Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1523. Torath HaChatath. Cracow, 1577. * Damesek Eliezer. Lublin, 1646. * And six others, similar** $1,500.00
Twelve volumes $18,000.00
Talmud Yerushalmi $2,500.00
De Synagoga Vetere $700.00
Complete (?) Collection of Chaim (Charles) Weizmann's chemical patents (88 in number) $6,000.00
Shevithi. Manuscript on vellum. Black ink $18,000.00
(1723-1805). Zichronoth R. Dov Ber Me’Bolechow $7,000.00
Margalioth Tovah [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch] $1,500.00
(Seder LeBrith Milah) $3,000.00
Illuminated Manuscript Leaf of Decalogue with Biblical Scenes $18,000.00
Seder Avodath Kohanim. Manuscript, black ink on paper $5,000.00
Ashli Ravravi - Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah $5,000.00
Anonymous. Ilan. Kabbalistic “tree” or diagram of the arrangement of the spiritual cosmos $20,000.00
(Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land. 1865-1935). Letter of Chief Rabbi Kook to Rabbi Dr. Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain $1,200.00
Siach Emuna, Tehilot David, Zichron Shmuel et al. $6,000.00
Seder Avodah [Rite for Day of Atonement in the Jerusalem Temple with anonymous commentary and kabbalistic meditations]. Manuscript on paper $3,000.00
Tephilah miko Hashanah [prayers for the entire year] $25,000.00
RaLBa”G. 1288-1344). Biur Sefer Daniel, Ezra, Divrei Hayamim [Biblical commentary] $60,000.00
Repuesta al libro intitulado Politica de Dios, Govierno de Christo, Tirania de Satanas, que compuso Francisco de Queredo [Response to the book entitled Poltics of God, Government of Christ, Tyranny of Satan, composed by Francisco de Queredo] $7,000.00
Pilpul Zeman, Zemanim, Zemaneihem [Anti-Christian parody of the Passover Hagadah] $5,000.00
Teilnehmer am XII Zionist Kongress $1,800.00

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AUCTION 23

March 30, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

AUCTION 23 - MARCH 30TH 2004
Kestenbaum & Company Sells the Third Portion of
Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts
from the Rare Book Room of
The Jews' College Library, London on March 30th

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Product Title	AUCTION 23
Auction Date	Mar 29, 2004
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
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Short Description	AUCTION 23 - MARCH 30TH 2004 Kestenbaum & Company Sells the Third Portion of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from the Rare Book Room of The Jews' College Library, London on March 30th New York, April 2, 2004 — A first edition Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) with commentary by Moses Isserles, Cracow, 1578-80, (Lot 139) brought in $74,750 (against an estimate of $30,000-40,000) making it the top seller at Kestenbaum & Company’s sale of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews’ College Library, London on March 30th. This Third Part of the Library which was offered completes a highly successful trilogy of sales which began with Parts I & II in December 2002 and December 2003. Several Bibles found particular favor with buyers. A single volume of the exceedingly rare vellum issue of the Plantin Polyglot Bible, one of only thirteen complete sets which were printed on vellum, on personal commission from King Philip II of Spain, Antwerp, 1569-72, sold extremely well, reaching $54,050 against an estimate of $20,000-30,000 (Lot 51). Also bringing high prices were a Polyglot Bible, Hutter’s Hexaglot Old Testament and 12-language New Testament, Nuremburg, for Elias Hutter: 1599, which realized $24,150 (Lot 55) and a nine-volume Hebrew Bible printed in Paris, 1543-46, in a fine contemporary binding that attained $26,450 against an estimate of $15,000-18,000 (Lot 49). Further highlights from the Book Section included the First Illustrated Amsterdam Passover Hagadah with commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and copperplate engravings, 1695, which sold for $23,000 (Lot 105) and a rare first edition of Bachayeh Ben Asher’s Kad Hakemach [philosophy and ethics] that was bought for $20,700 (Lot 40). Highlights from the Manuscripts Section of the sale included a 14th century manuscript of one of the most important, classical early Biblical Commentaries by Levi Ben Gershom (Gersonides), Biur Sefer Daniel, Ezra, Divrei Hayamim which realized $46,000 (Lot 222); a French 18th century single leaf Shevithi on vellum, which sold for $21,850 (210); and a Kabbalistic scroll, rarely seen at auction, featuring a diagram of the arrangement of the spiritual cosmos, possibly German, 18th century, which garnered $17,250 (Lot 217). Also of note was a complete unpublished literary manuscript of a prominent early American Jew, Isaac Gomez, Jr., New York, 1825. After spirited bidding, it sold for a high price of $34,500 against an estimate of $6,000-9,000 (Lot 12A). Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction will be on June 29, 2004: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Ceremonial and Graphic Art From the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg, Greenwich, Conn.

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