Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

AUCTION 28

April 5, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

Kestenbaum & Company’s Sale of the
The Library of the Late
Professor Abraham J. Karp
Brings Enthusiastic Response

April 8, 2005 — Buyers responded eagerly to Kestenbaum & Company’s auction that included the library of noted historian, bibliophile and beloved teacher, Abraham Joseph Karp on Tuesday, April 5th. Professor Karp was influential in the world of the Jewish Book and was a pioneering scholar in the field of American Jewish History. Featured in the sale were many fine examples of early printed Hebrew books, Bibles, Hagadahs and attractive bindings along with a small group of graphic art.

The top lot of the sale was an eye-catching micrographic Sephirath Ha’omer Chart, possibly Dutch. After heavy bidding in the room and on the phones, it was ultimately purchased for $134,800. Another coveted lot was a fine crisp copy of the Bible in Hebrew printed by Daniel Bomberg, Venice, 1524-5. One of the best of a selection of Bibles in the sale, competitive bidding pushed the selling price up to $118,000 against a pre-auction estimate of $30,000-40,000

Further books achieving high prices were a rare Passover Hagadah, the first to be printed with an English translation, London, 1770, that realized $63,720 against an estimate of $15,000-18,000; a rare edition of Maimonides’ Ma’amar Tehiyath ha-Methim (treatise on Resurrection), Constantinople, 1569, which brought in $61,360 against an estimate of $20,000-30,000; and Schneur Zalman of Liadi’s book of Chaddidism--Sepher Likutei Amarim, Slavuta, 1796. This first book to lay out the philosophy of Chabad Chassidism was highly sought after and garnered $59,000 against an estimate of $30,000-50,000.

Additional sale highlights were a rare compendium of papal bullae, “Diverse Papal Bullae Commencing with Boniface VII through Paul IV” including several directed against the Jews, Rome, 1559, which sold for $35,400 against an estimate of $20,000-25,000; Joseph Gikatilla’s book on Kabbalah, Portae Lucis (Gates of Light), Augsburg, 1516, which realized $33,040 against an estimate of $25,000-30,000, and Don Isaac Abrabanel’s Perush Nevi’im Rishonim (commentary to Former Prophets), Pesaro, 1511 which was bought for $20,060 against an estimate of $15,000-20,000.

Rounding out the sale in the graphics section was the earliest Biblical painting done by an American Jewish artist--Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The framed painting entitled Moses Before the Amalakites, oil on board, America, ca. 1848-1852, achieved $37,760 against a pre-sale estimate of $25,000-30,000.

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Product Name
Beith Aharon [index to Biblical passages explained in Talmudic, Midrashic and later Rabbinic literature] $300.00
Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead] $500.00
Perush Nevi’im Rishonim [commentary to Former Prophets] $20,000.00
She’iltoth [Halachah as derived from the Pentateuch] $800.00
(RaSHB”A). Torath ha-Bayith ha-Katzar [compendium of the author’s legal manual] $800.00
Vital, Chaim ben Joseph. Sha’arei Kedushah [“Gates of Holiness”: Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Alim li-Teruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna] $700.00
Kedushath Yom Tov [commentary to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, with sermons: Yom Tov De-Rabanan $500.00
Ayelet Ahavim [Kabbalistic commentary to the Song of Songs, with text] $700.00
Shoresh Yishai [Kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Ruth, with text] $2,000.00
Zechor le-Avraham [halachic encyclopedia, in alphabetical order, including responsa]. Part II: Even ha-Ezer and Choshen Mishpat $150.00
CASTILLO, MARTIN DEL. Arte Hebraispano. Dikduk Lashon Hakodesh Belshon Sepharadith $25,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew and Spanish). Biblia en dos Colunas - Hebrayco y Espanol $6,000.00
Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah and Kippur...According to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Translated by Isaac Pinto $10,000.00
ADAMS, HANNAH. An Alphabrtical Compendium of the Various Sects Which Have Appeared in the World... With an Appendix, Containing a Brief Account of the Different Schemes of Religion Now Embraced Among Mankind $600.00
BRESLAU, ARYEH LEIB. Penei Aryeh [responsa] $500.00
JOHLSON, J[OSEPH]. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. Translated from German to English by Leeser, Isaac $1,500.00
(LITURGY). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser $2,000.00
SAPHIR, JACOB (“Even Sapir.”) Gai Chizayon [in praise of Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore upon their arrival to Eretz Israel] $500.00
Carvalho, Solomon Nunes. Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont’s Last Expedition $900.00
BENJAMIN, ISRAEL JOSEPH. Drei Jahre in Amerika 1859-62 $700.00
Tephiloth B’nei Yeshurun ke-phi Minhag Amerika. The Divine Service of American Israelites for the New Year. According to the Custom of America. Prepared by Isaac M. Wise. $1,500.00
HOROWITZ, LEON Roumania Ve-America [encouraging emigration to the United States] $1,200.00
Twenty-two Original Deeds and Indentures for Seats and Pews in The First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek $900.00
RADIN, ADOLPH MOSES. Asirei Oni U-Barzel [a report on incarcerated Jews] $1,200.00
By-Laws of the Sacred Society, “Gemiluth Hasadim.” $4,000.00
LESSER, ABRAHAM JACOB GERSHON. B'Acharith Ha-Yamim [Christain-Jewish polemics] $400.00
Libowitz, Nechemiah S. Hurdus ve-Agripas [“Herod and Agrippa” - a dramatized history based on Talmudic sources] $250.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $400.00
(Anonymous). The Case of Many Hundreds of Poor English-Captives in Algier, Together With Some Remedies To Prevent their Increase, Humbly Represented to Both Houses of Parliament. $1,500.00
SILVA, JOSHUA DA. Discursos Predycaveys que o Docto Haham Yeosuah da Sylva, Pregou no K.K. Sahar a Samaym em Londres $2,000.00
*YOCHANAN B. ISAAC OF HOELLESCHAU (Editor). Teshuvath Hageonim [responsa concerning the correct pronunciation of the name of God]. WITH: Ma’aseh Rav [halachic polemic]** $900.00
[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Permit Persons Professing the Jewish Religion, to be Naturalized by Parliament $1,500.00
[Parliamentary Act]. An Act to Repeal...an Act to Permit Persons Professing the Jewish Religion to be Naturalized by Parliament $1,500.00
(Liturgy). Selichoth [penitential prayers] $1,500.00
ALEXANDER, L[evy]. Alexander’s Hebrew Ritual, and Doctrinal Explanation of the Whole Ceremonial Law...of the Jewish Community $1,000.00
The Mountain's in Labour: To the Worthy Electors of Bristol. $1,000.00
*Wülfer, Johann. Theriaca Judaica. Bound with Vindex Sanguinis (Amsterdam: Adam Jongbloet, 1681). pp. (2), 3-20.** $1,800.00
(ANTISEMITICA). $1,500.00
Stern, Itzig Feitel [pseudonym of Holzschuher, Heinrich]. Israels Verkehr und Geist in jüdischen Charakterzeichnungen, Erzählungen, Gedichten und so weiter $400.00
*Mizmor Lethodah [commentary to selected Psalms, with text]. ff. 184. BOUND WITH: Samuel Aripul. Sepher Agadath Shmuel [prospectus]. ff. 14 [i.e. 13].** $1,200.00
Yoseph Lekach [commentary to the Book of Esther, with text] $900.00
(ASIA) $5,000.00
Avodath ha-Kodesh [A collection of seven small treatises on Halachah, Minhag and Nuscha'oth of Prayer] $1,500.00
CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID (CHID”A). $500.00
*Avodath ha-Kodesh [Prayers, remedies and supplications for the entire year, based on the Kabbalah]. Bound with: Le-David Emeth [Laws of Writing a Torah Scroll]** $300.00
Shulchan Ha-Tahor [the daily recitation of the 613 precepts] $400.00
Vital, Chaim ben Joseph. Shivchei…Harav…Chaim Vital [Autobiography of Chaim Vital] $500.00
Pnei Yitzchak [instructionson on the writing of a “Get” (bill of divorce) and Chalitzah]. With responsa by Menachem Navarro of Verona. $300.00
Sepher Ivronoth [astronomy and calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calendar] $3,000.00
Mas’ei Yisrael $900.00
Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855 $700.00
Itinerarium Benjaminis, Latine redditum [Travels of Benjamin of Tudela]. Translated into Latin and with an introduction by Constantin L’Empereur $1,800.00
Mas'oth shel Rabbi Binyamin / Itinerarium d. Benjaminis [Travels of Rabbi Benjamin] $2,000.00
“ASHER BEN YECHIEL” (RO”SH) (Pseudo). Besamim Rosh [responsa] $600.00
De Republica Ebraeorum. Recensitus commentarioque illustratus, opera Const. l’Empereur ab Oppijck $600.00
Pelach ha-Rimon [Commentary to Agadah] $1,000.00
Hebrew) $40,000.00
Hebrew). Complete, bound in sixteen volumes $7,000.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [Pentateuch] ONLY $1,500.00
Hebrew and Latin). Mikdash Hashem, Esrim ve-Arba - Hebraica Biblia. Translated and with an introduction in Hebrew and Latin by Sebastian Muenster. $1,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamisha Chumshei Torah $2,500.00
Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Latin. Old and New Testaments). Hebraicorum Bibliorum / Novum Testamentum Graece $3,000.00
Hebrew and Ancient Greek). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] / [Novum Testamentum Graece] $1,800.00
Hebrew). Chamishah Chumashei Torah (-end) $2,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah [-end] $900.00
Hebrew). Biblia Hebraica. Hebrew and Latin titles $1,500.00
*Hebrew and Greek). Esrim ve-Arba’ah. Bound with: New Testament (Greek) (London: H. Baldwin and Son, 1801). pp. 368 + ff. (2) (Explanations of Maps). [Darlow and Moule 4776]** $2,500.00
Hebrew). Sepher Tehillim-Liber Psalmorum Hebraice. With Latin annotation by Antonius Hulsius. Latin introduction $600.00
Hebrew, Spanish and Judeo-Spanish. SONG OF SONGS). Paraphrasis Caldaica en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto; Hebrayco y Ladino, Traduiza en lengua Españolla. * WITH: Masecheth Avoth / Perakim. Hebrew with Spanish translation by Moses Belmonte $1,000.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, PROPHETS AND WRITINGS). Biblia Hebraica. Edited and with an introduction in Latin by Johannes Leusden $1,500.00
Judeo-German). Followed by the “To’aliyoth” (moral lessons) of Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (RaLBa”G or Gersonides) on Joshua, Judges and Samuel $1,800.00
Biblia Hebraica $600.00
Hebrew). Biblia Hebraica. A Large Paper Copy $1,000.00
Spanish). Biblia en Lengua Espanola. Traduzida de la verdad Hebraica $2,500.00
Hebrew). Biblia Hebraica $300.00
Hebrew. Psalms). Tehilim with commentaries by David Altschuler, Metzudath Zion, and Israel ben Moses, Peirush ha-Zohar $3,000.00
Sepher Tirgum Torah Belashon Tatar $2,000.00
Hebrew. PSALMS). Sepher Tehillim. With commentary “Na’avah Tehillah” by Jacob ben Joseph ha-Rophé $2,000.00
Hebrew. Pentateuch). CHAMISHAH CHUMSHEI TORAH $1,800.00
Tehillim [Psalm 92, the Psalm for the Sabbath Day] $500.00
DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO. De Præcipuis Caussis, et momentis neglectæ a nonnullis Hebraicarum litterarum disciplinæ. Disquisitio Elenchtica $400.00
(BIBLIOGRAPHY) $400.00
Bass, Shabthai. Siphethei Yesheinim [“The Lips of the Sleeping”: Hebraic bibliography] $400.00
[Auctioneer’s Catalogue]. Reshimath Sepharim - A Catalogue of the Extensive Library of Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Objects of the Estates of Rabbis Meir and Akiba Lehren and Moshe de Lima $300.00
et al). Collection of c.107 volumes of Bibliographical Studies and reference works and typophilic volumes $6,000.00
Orden de las Oraciones Cotidianas [Daily Prayer Book] $15,000.00
Biblia Hebraica. Prepared by E. van der Hooght $10,000.00
Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden sonderlich derer in Deutschland [Ecclesiastical Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany] $3,000.00
Ex Ordinatione Inclyti Regni Gubernii [“Laws concerning the Jews of the Habsburg Empire, specifically Bohemia, their religion, education, the constitution of their community, their population, foodstuffs, etc.” ] $1,500.00
Geographia Sacra [Sacred Geography] $1,800.00
Brief Steller oder Pathshegen ha-Kethav le-Chinuch Ne’arim [The Art of Letter Writing] $180.00
(EDITOR). Yein Levanon [three unpublished manuscripts: Maimonides, Moses. Commentary to Tractate Rosh Hashanah; Martica, David. Zechuth Adam; Zabara, Joseph. Sepher Sha’ashu’im]. Foreword by Shneur Sachs $200.00
Seder Selichoth le-Chavurah Kedoshah $1,500.00
Chaim Vital. Chok LeYisrael [portions of Zohar, Bible, etc. divided for daily study]. Vayira, Bamidbar, Devarim (only) $1,000.00
*Luach Ha-shanah [calendar for the Hebrew Year 1815]. Second part: Luach Lev. Edited by Joseph Perl, [ethical stories, natural zooolgy, riddles etc. ]** $300.00
Darchei ha-Talmud $900.00
Eith Ketz [The Advent of the Messiah] $500.00
Pi Sepharim $500.00
Ginzburg, Simon Levi. Minhagim $5,000.00
*GINZBERG, SIMON LEVI. Minhagim. Bound with: Tikun Leil Shevu’oth** $4,000.00
GINZBERG, SIMON LEVI. Minhagim $6,000.00
Seder ha-Tephiloth mi-Kol ha-Shanah [prayers through the year] $2,500.00
Dinim u-Minhagim Tovim $2,000.00
DOV BAER OF LUBAVITCH. Bi’urei ha-Zohar [commentary to the Zohar according to the doctrine of Chabad] $600.00
Igereth HaKodesh [“The Holy Epistle”]: Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Abraham of Kaliska and Chaim Chaikel of Hamdora. With selections by Elimelech of Lizhensk, Joseph of Ostrog and Levi Isaac of Berdichev. * Levi Isaac of Berdichev. Sepher ha-Zechirah. $600.00
Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Sepher Likutei Amarim [“Tanya”] $50,000.00
Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Tanya $1,200.00
Shneuri, Dov Baer ben Shneur Zalman. Sha’ar ha-Teshuvah ve-ha-Tephilah [“Gate of Repentance and Prayer”]. Part II $1,500.00
Ibn Verga, Joseph, She’erith Yoseph [on the methodology of the Talmud] $12,000.00
Talmud Yerushalmi: Moed. With commentaries Korban Ha-Edah and Shayarei Korban $900.00
Yoel ben Moshe Gad. Chidushei Halachoth $1,500.00
(Moses ben Gershon Gentili). Chanukath ha-Bayith [Treatise on the Construction of the Second Temple] $1,500.00
Baruch Atah be-Phi ha-Taph [liturgical primer] $90.00
Finn, James. The Jews in China: Their Synagogue, Their Scriptures, Their History $500.00
Zoth Chukath ha-Torah [Abbreviation of R. Isaac Luria’s Sepher ha-Kavanoth] $600.00
Mata'ei Kedem al Admath Tzafon / Morgenländische Pflanzen auf nördichem Boden [“Eastern Plants upon Northern Soil”: Poetry] $600.00
Ma’aseh Tuviah $7,000.00
Be'er Basadeh [super-commentary to Rashi and Mizrachi on the Torah] $700.00
Reshith Chochmah $900.00
(RaSHBa”TZ). Sepher HaTaSHBa”’TZ [responsa] $500.00
Penei Moshe [responsa by R. Moshe Benveniste] Part III $9,000.00
Melecheth Machsheveth [mathematics] $600.00
Eitz Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers, with text] $1,800.00
Akitzath Akrav [polemic] $4,000.00
Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash [anti-Sabbatianism]. Two parts in one $700.00
Levushei Serad [novellae and discourses to Yoreh De’ah] $300.00
Lashon Ash $400.00
Assemblée des Dèputés des Israélites de France et du Royaume d’Italie $2,500.00
Sepher Chukei Chaim [responsa] $500.00
Perush Shir ha-Shirim [commentary to the Song of Songs, with text] $600.00
Gesetz=Sammlung für die Königlichen Preussichen Staaten, No. 30 [Legislation of the Royal Prussian State, No. 30] $1,500.00
GEIGER, SOLOMON ZALMAN. Divrei Kehiloth [Customs - particularly relating to liturgy - of the Community of Frankfurt] $500.00
Hozer Dalim Gibraltar Jubileo $900.00
(GRAMMAR) $1,500.00
Ben-Ze’ev, Judah Leib. Talmud Leshon Ivri $500.00
The Hagadah shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers Which are Used and Read by All the Families, in All the Houses of the Israelites. According to Sephardic rite $18,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. With translation into Judeo-Italian and abbreviated commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. “Chad Gadya” provided with Judeo-German translation $2,000.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover. Translated by A. Alexander. $900.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach $1,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Chag ha-Pesach kefi Minhag ha-Yisra’elim ha-Kara’im. According to the rite of the Karaites $400.00
Leket Ha-Kemach [systematic digest of practical responsa pertaining to the Shulchan Aruch] $600.00
(Gaon of Pumbeditha). Ha-Mekach ve-ha-Memkar [laws of torts and securities]. Translated from Arabic to Hebrew by Isaac ben Reuben Albarceloni $300.00
Kuzari. Translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon $900.00
Emunath ha-Notzrim / Grundlicher Bericht von dem Christenthum $180.00
Zichron Yerushalayim $200.00
SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH JUBILAUMS NUMMER $700.00
Tephilah Nechonah li-She’eilath Rachamim…be-eth tzarah…teshu’ah ve-hatzlachath chayalei ha-medinoth ha-eilu [Prayer for the Troops of These Lands] $400.00
Abrahe Auenaris Judei Astrologi Peritissimi In Re Iudicali Opera. [Ten separate astronomical / astrological works] $7,000.00
IBN GABBAI, MEIR $1,800.00
Shevet Yehudah [historiography] $1,500.00
(INDIAN JUDAICA) $600.00
Anonymous. Sepher ha-Yashar [stories of the Apocrypha] $400.00
STEINSCHNEIDER, MORITZ. Mashal u-Melitzah: A Collection of Fables and Parables for the Use of Jewish Youth in the Eastern Countries. Compiled by Special Order of David Sassoon Esq., Bombay $500.00
FULLER, THOMAS. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon $3,000.00
DAPPER, OLFERT. Asia, oder genaue und gründliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins [“Asia, or exact and thorough description of all of Syria and Palestine.”] $6,000.00
RELAND, HADRIAN. Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata $1,500.00
HARPER, HENRY A. Walks in Palestine $2,500.00
BERMAN, ISAAC. Sepher Chidushei Yitzchak ben Pinchas $1,500.00
ISRAEL BEN SAMUEL OF SHKLOV. Pe’ath ha-Shulchan (Agricultural Laws of Eretz Israel) $1,200.00
Shaarei Dimah [prayers to be recited at the Western Wall and other Holy Places]. With kabbalistic meditations $700.00
*ARYEH LEIB CHARIF. Sepher Em la-Masoroth. Printed with: Shneur Zalman ben Menachem Mendel [Mendelevich] Sepher Zikhron Yerusahalayim** $900.00
LUNCZ, ABRAHAM MOSES. Yerushalayim / Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Beförderung einer wissenschaftlich genauen Kenntniss des jetzigen und des alten Palästinas [Yearbook for the Diffusion of an Accurate Knowledge of Modern and Ancient Palestine] $1,200.00
ELIEZER BEN-YEHUDAH. Sepher Eretz Yisra’el. Vol. I (all published) $1,200.00
Chevrath Chesed Ve-Emeth $700.00
Kol Meheichal $700.00
HAYARCHI, ABRAHAM BEN NATHAN. Peirush Masecheth Kalah Rabathi. Edited by Baruch Toledano $300.00
(ISRAEL, LAND OF) $3,000.00
SCHWARZ, JOSEPH. Das Heilige Land $1,200.00
HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the holy sites of Eretz Israel] $600.00
HOROWITZ, CHAIM BEN DOV BER HALEVI. Sepher Chibath Yerushalayim [descriptions of the Holy Sites of Eretz Israel] $400.00
BASSANI, ISRAEL BENJAMIN. La Corona Estense [dedicatory Hebrew poems with Italian translation] $700.00
Almanacco Orientale Per l'Anno 1762 [Almanac for the Year 1762] $300.00
Chachmath Ha’yad Ve’ha’partzuph [kabbalistic palmistry and craniology] $300.00
(“Ha-Penini”). Bechinath Olam [“The Book of the Examination of the World”]. Translated into Latin by Allardus Uchtmannus. Latin dedication and commendatory poem on opening unnumbered leaves. Hebrew and Latin on facing pages $700.00
Al Chomothayich Yerushalayim Hifkaditi Shomrim... $1,500.00
(JERUSALEM) $400.00
Antiquitatum Iudaicarum, libri XX; De Bello Iudaico, libri VII; Contra Apionem, libri II. Edited by S. Gelenius $1,000.00
(Attributed to). Sepher Chassidim [pietism] $300.00
GIKATILLA, JOSEPH. Portae Lucis (“Gates of Light.”). Paulus Ricius' Latin translation of substantial portions of Sha'arei Orah $30,000.00
KNORR VON ROSENROTH, CHRISTIAN. Kabbala Denudata [“Kabbalah Uncovered”] $2,500.00
Anonymous. RAZIEL HA-MALACH. Attributed to the Angel Razial for Adam Kadmon: Primordial Man $2,500.00
Anonymous. Raziel ha-Malach. Attributed to the Angel Razial for Adam Kadmon: Primordial Man $1,200.00
Anonymous. Raziel ha-Malach. Attributed to the Angel Razial for Adam Kadmon: Primordial Man $1,000.00
Anonymous. Raziel ha-Malach. Attributed to the Angel Razial for Adam Kadmon: Primordial Man $600.00
Anonymous. Raziel ha-Malach. Attributed to the Angel Razial for Adam Kadmon: Primordial Man $500.00
SHIMON B”R YOCHAI (Attributed to). Sepher ha-Zohar [The Book of Splendor]. With glosses of R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Chid”a), “Devash le-Phi” $900.00
Sepher Ha-Kavanoth u-Maa’seh Nissim [Lurianic meditations]. Includes Shivchei ha-Ari, Kavanoth ha-Ari, and Peshate ha-Ari. Edited by Chassidic Rabbi of Safed Samuel Heller $300.00
AARON B YOSEPH HA-RISHON Sepher Ha-Mivchar Ve-Tuv Ha-Mischar [Commentary to the Torah]. With a super-commentary, Tirath Kesseph by Yoseph b. Shlomo Ha-Zaken. $500.00
HADASSI, JUDAH. Eshkol Ha-Kopher $500.00
LUTZKI, JOSEPH SOLOMON BEN MOSES. Igereth Teshu’ath Yisrael [Epistle of Israel’s Salvation: History of the Karaites under Tsar Nicholas I] $1,500.00
Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]. With commentary “Darchei Moshe” by Moses Isserles (ReM”A) and glossary and indices “Beer Ha’golah” by Moses ben Tzvi Naphtali Hirsch Ribkes of Vilna $1,500.00
Simchath Levav [“Gladness of Heart”: Ethics]. Text of Bachya, Ibn Pakuda, , Chovoth ha-Levavoth [“Duties of the Heart”] with commentary Path Lechem $600.00
Hakohen, Isaac ben Samson. Tzava’oth ha-Gaon ha-Gadol ha-Mefursam Mohr”r Naphtali Ha-Kohen zt”l [Ethical Will of R. Naphtali Katz] $500.00
Yalkut Reuveni [kabbalistic homilies] with additions “Shikchath Leket” by Nathan of Frankfurt $300.00
(SHa”CH). Poal Tzedek [the 613 precepts divided according to the seven days of the week] $300.00
(RaDa”K). Sepher Ha’sharashim [“Book of Roots;” a Biblical lexicon and grammar] $15,000.00
Orot [“Lights”] $600.00
Ohel Ya’akov [commentary to the philosophical and mathematical passages of Joseph Albo’s Sepher ha-Ikarim] $4,000.00
Chok le-Yisrael [on Maimonides’ Sepher Hamitzvoth with an abridgment of Nachmanides’ notes thereon; Azharoth of Solomon ibn Gabirol; and correspondence between Hasdai ibn Shaprut and Joseph King of Khazaria] $500.00
Seder Tikun Shtaroth $600.00
Rosh Yeshiva of Kaminetz). Eybescheutz, David Solomon. Neoth Desheh [responsa]. First Edition $700.00
Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus $600.00
To’aliyoth ha-RaLBa”G [Moral Exhortations of the Pentateuch] $600.00
Luchoth ha-Ibur [Tables of intercalation of the Jewish calendar] $500.00
Dikduk...Sepher Habachur [grammar] $2,000.00
Sepher ha-Tishbi [lexicon] $2,000.00
Orden de las Oraciones de los Cinco Ayunos [Order of Prayers of the Five Fasts] $1,000.00
Machzor [Festival Prayer Book]. According to the Aschkenazi Rite. With Commentary $900.00
Seder Tikun Leil Shevi’i shel Pesach [Kabbalistic Order for the Seventh Night of Passover] $500.00
(LITURGY) $4,000.00
Tephiloth Yisrael / Gebete der Juden $1,000.00
The Form of Prayers…According to the Order of the German and Polish Jews. Translation by David Levi, revised by A. Alexander $1,200.00
Seder Tephiloth Tikun Ezra $800.00
Lu'ach shel Samech-Daleth Shanim [Sixty-Four Year Calendar]. Includes: Sephirath ha-Omer [Order of the Counting of the Days of the Omer] $1,000.00
Tephilath Yisrael [daily prayers]. According to Sephardic rite $4,000.00
Sepher Mo’adei Hashem u-Keri’ei Mo’ed [Festivals prayers]. Includes Lurianic meditatons. With Passover Hagadah $1,500.00
Sepher Mo’adei Hashem u-Keri’ei Mo’ed [Festivals prayers]. Includes Lurianic meditatons. With Passover Hagadah $1,500.00
Sepher Mo’adei Hashem u-Keri’ei Mo’ed [Festivals prayers]. Includes Lurianic meditatons. With Passover Hagadah $2,000.00
Sha’arai Dimah Ve’yeshuah [selected prayers for recitation at the Holy Sites in Eretz Israel]. Selected and annotated by Samuel ben Joshua Zelig of Dahlinov and Ilya $1,200.00
(Loewenstein, Lipmann Hirsch). Seder Gemiluth Chasadim [Prayers for the Sick, the Cemetery and the House of Mourning] $400.00
Siddur Tephilah $500.00
De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum $300.00
Dresnitz, Solomon Shlome. Shivchei ha-Ari [“The Praises of the Lion”: Biography of Isaac Luria] $180.00
(RaMCHa”L). Mesilath Yesharim [ethics] $300.00
(Mandelstamm, Aryeh Leib [Leon]). $500.00
Grammatica Hebraica a punctis aliisque inventis massorethicis libera $300.00
Naphtali Hirsch ben Isaiah. Naphtali Ayalah Sheluchah $600.00
Tertis, A(lexander). Sepher Dam Bris- Treatise on Metzitzah & Circumcision [responsa and testimonials relating to the new circumcision apparatus invented by the author] $500.00
Tzeror Hachaim. De Termino Vitae $1,200.00
Nishmath Chaim [“The Breath of Life”: On the immortality of the soul] $600.00
MENDELSSOHN, MOSES $600.00
*Midrash tehilim Rabatha. [Midrashic commentary to the Book of Psalms]. Midrash Shmuel Rabatha [Midrashic commentary to the Book of Samuel]** $600.00
(MINIATURE BOOK) $700.00
Seder Rinah u-Tephilah [prayers for Weekday and Sabbath, including Ethics of the Fathers] $700.00
NO LOT. $600.00
(MINIATURE BOOK) $500.00
(MINIATURE BOOK). $1,000.00
Beith Lechem Yehudah [Aggadic concordance] $300.00
SEPHER RAV MORDEChAI $1,500.00
RaMBa”M). Ma’amar Tehiyath ha-Methim [treatise on Resurrection] $30,000.00
MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES / $7,000.00
Moreh Nevuchim / Doctor Perplexorum [Guide to the Perplexed]. Translated from ibn Tibbon's Hebrew to Latin by Johanne Buxtorf the Younger $500.00
Ha-Nephesh ha-Chachamah [“The Wise Soul”: Kabbalistic discourses on the fate awaiting the soul after death and the mystical significance of the commandments; includes commentaries of R. Moses de Leon and R. Joseph Gikatilia to the Passover Hagadah] $700.00
Sepher Nitzachon-Liber Nizachon $1,800.00
(Ed). Teshuvoth ha-Ge’onim [collected responsa of the Ge’onim] $200.00
Weimar, Daniel. Torath Ta’amei ha-Mikra / Doctrina Accentuationis Hebraeae. pp. (20), 108. Leipzig: Brandenburg, 1709 * BOUND WITH: Ta’am Ta’mei ha-Mikra / Usus Accentuationis Biblicae. pp. (24), 140. Jena: Henr. Christoph. Cröker, 1708 $500.00
NATHAN, ISAAC. An Essay on the History and Theory of Music; and on the Qualities, Capabilities, and Management of the Human Voice $1,500.00
NAUMBOURG, SAMUEL (Minister of the Consistorial Temple of Paris). Agudath Shirim / Recueil de Chants Religieux et Populaires des Israelites $300.00
Zemiroth Israel [religious poetry] $1,500.00
Sepher Ha’Aruch [Talmudic dictionary] $9,000.00
Der Wunder-würdige Juden- und Heiden-Tempel $900.00
Mateh Dan-Cuzari Chelek Sheni $2,000.00
Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familienleben [Pictures of Old Jewish Family Life] $1,800.00
Gali Razia / Occultorum Detectio [“Revealer of Mysteries”: Christian polemic] $700.00
Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae / Otzar Leshon Hakodesh $1,500.00
Epitome Thesauri Linguæ Sanctæ. Edited by Isaac Levita $600.00
Zichron Yerushalayim [illustrated guide to the tombs of Sages and the Holy Places] $700.00
Tissard, Francois. Grammatica Hebraica $18,000.00
Biur Zeh Yatza Rishona... $9,000.00
Parach Mateh Aharon [responsa] $500.00
La Vita di Mose. Translated into Italian by Giulio Ballino $600.00
Michtevei ha-Rabbanim…ve-Rashei Alfei Yisrael asher be-Arei Italia / Briefe der Herren Ober-Rabinnen und Aeltesten der Judengemeinen in Italien $500.00
Lieberman, Eliezer (Editor). Nogah ha-Tzedek - Or Nogah $500.00
Lowenstamm, Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb. Tzeror ha-Chaim [“The Bond of Life”: Nine Responses to the Innovations of the Reform Movement] $700.00
(REFORM JUDAISM) $500.00
Salomon, Gotthold. Kurtzgefasste Geschichte des Neuen Israelitischen Tempels in Hamburg während der ersten 25 Jahre seines Bestehens [“Brief History of the New Israelite Temple in Hamburg during the First 25 Years of Its Existence”] $500.00
Chazan, Israel Moses (Grandson of the author of Chikrei Lev, Raphael Joseph Chazan). Kin’ath Tzion FIRST EDITION. ff. (1), 17. *Bound with: Lehren, Tzvi Hirschel and Elijah Abraham Prins. Torath ha-Kena’oth. ff. 33. $700.00
Nechemiah of Bialystok. Teshuvah be-Inyan Keri’ath ha-Kethubah bein Birkath Erusin le-Birkath Nisu’in [Responum regarding Reading the Kethubah between the Blessing of Betrothal and the Blessing of Marriage] $300.00
Analecta Rabbinica [Talmudic dictionary in Hebrew and Latin] $400.00
On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraina $1,000.00
Tikun Hamidoth [Midnight and midday devotional prayers] $1,500.00
*(Paulus Israelite”). De sexcentum et tredecim Mosaice sanctionis edictus. Eiusdem Philosophica; prophetica; ac talmudistica. * Eiusdem in cabalistarum. * Eiusdem de Novem doctrinarum ordinibus** $7,000.00
Isaac Berliner. Shtot fun Palatzen - La Ciudad De Los Palacios [Yiddish poetry] $600.00
Chaudon, Esprit Joseph. Les Imposteurs Démasqués, et les Usurpateurs Punis, ou Histoire de Plusieurs Aventuriers [“The Impostors Unmasked and the Usurpers Punished, or History of Numerous Adventurers”] $500.00
Mikra’ei Kodesh [Kabbalistic exposition to the Festivals and precepts] $600.00
Sepher TaSHBa”TZ [Rabbinic law and responsa - following the decisions of R. Meir of Rothenburg] $700.00
Igereth Adar ha-Yakar [On logic, rhetoric, mathematics, language, etc.] $500.00
Limborch, Philip von. De Veritate Religionis Christianæ. Amica Collatio cum Erudito Judæo [“Of the True Christian Religion. Amical Collation with an Erudite Jew (Baltasor Isaac Orobio de Castro)”]. * With: Acosta, Uriel. Exemplar Humanæ Vitæ $3,000.00
Bacallar y Sannà, Vicente. Monarchia Hebrea $700.00
(SEPHARDICA). $2,500.00
Anonymous (Attributed to Abraham the Patriach). With Commentary by Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID of POSQUIERES (RAV”D), Nachmanides, etc $1,200.00
Ithiel ha-Kushi me-Venezia - Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J.E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin $700.00
Sepher Zikaron [Joseph Karo’s Code, abridged, versified in rhyme and arranged mnemotechnically] $2,500.00
Divrei Shalom [Kabbalistic commentary and responsa concerning the works of Isaac Luria, along with other halachic and aggadic material] $500.00
(Traditionally attributed to). Tikunei Hazohar [kabbalah] $900.00
Avi Ezer [supercommentary to ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch] $300.00
Souvenir of the Refugee Festival Services, Good Hope Hall, Cape Town $700.00
Heydeck, Don Juan Joseph. Ilustracion de la Inscripcion Hebrea que se halla en la Iglesia del Tránsito de la Ciudad de Toledo [Illustration of the Inscription Found in the El Tránsito Church, Toledo] $1,200.00
Bullae Diversorum Romanorum Pontificum Incipientes a Bonifacio VIII usque ad S.D.N.D. Paulum IIII. [“Diverse Papal Bullae Commencing with Boniface VIII through Paul IV”] $25,000.00
PINNER, MORITZ. Compendium des Hierosolymitanischen und Babylonischen Thalmud $300.00
Siphra di-Tzeni’utha de-Ya’akov [Kabbalistic annotations to the Pentateuch]. Edited by the author’s son Eliezer Lipmann Temerls $500.00
Benisch, A. (Ed.) Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon $500.00
Gefen Yechidith [Mussar in rhymed prose]. With: Chaim Bochner, Luach Chaim [instructions to Yeshiva students on the necessity of exercise and a healthy diet] $500.00
(Eds.) Chemdah Genuzah [responsa of the early Gaonim] $500.00
De Pas, Isaac ben Moses. Sepher Esheth Chayil [“A Woman of Valor”] $1,000.00
Frank, Issachar Baer. Sepher Machaneh Yisrael…Dinei Melichah, Challah, Niddah, Hadlakah [laws of salting meat, tithing dough, family purity, kindling the Sabbath lights]. 1837 * WITH: Another Edition. 1844 $600.00
Shevilai David [sermons and eulogies] $200.00
HESS, MOSES. Rom und Jerusalem, die letzte Nationalitätsfrage $1,800.00
*PINSKER, LEON. [“Autoemancipation”]. Im Ein Ani Li, Mi Li. Translated into Hebrew by Samuel Loeb Citron. With: (An Open Letter to Nachum Sokolow)** $900.00
Herzl, Theodor. [Der Judenstaat]. Medinath ha-Yehudim. Translated into Hebrew by Michel Berkowitz $3,000.00
SOKOLOW, NAHUM. History of Zionism 1600-1918 $2,000.00
Tsu di Yiddishe Soldaten - Ka Evreim Soldatam $900.00
Kinstlerische Aleph-Beith [“Artistic Alphabet”] $300.00
(AMERICAN - ANGLO JUDAICA) $1,500.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $2,000.00
Ash, Abraham Joseph. Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew, to Joseph Zechariah Stern $2,000.00
(Kethubah) Marriage Contract. Brown ink on Vellum. Hebrew text on left side, English translation on right. Uniting Judah B. Polock to Mary Hyams $20,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $1,500.00
A Hebrew Grammar. Manuscript on paper in English and Hebrew in a neat cursive hand. Translated from a Latin manuscript of Dr. Kuntze, Professor of Oriental Languages, Columbia College $1,500.00
(ANGLO JUDAICA) $1,800.00
Kethubah. Engraved Marriage contract on vellum with manuscript additions. Uniting Judah son of Abraham and Hendel daughter of David $1,500.00
(Pinkas Shadar) $30,000.00
(Pinkas Shadar) $20,000.00
(Shem HaGedolim. Part II) $50,000.00
(R. YISRAEL OF RIZHIN and R. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL OF APT) $7,000.00
Das Koeniglich Preussisch Land und Stadt-Gericht ...das Testament...Verstorbenen Oberrabbiners von Posen, Jacob Moses Eger [Last Will and Testament]. Official manuscript Court Copy. $7,000.00
Bei’ur Koheleth [Commentary to Ecclesiastes]. Hebrew manuscript on paper. Aschkenazic cursive script $4,000.00
Cologna, Abraham Vita (Chai) de $5,000.00
(“The Ba’al Haflo’oh.”) Autograph Hebrew Manuscript, Signed $15,000.00
Emissary (Shadar) letters to: Ha-Gevir Ha-Sar David Yoseph Ezra, leader of the Jewish community of all of in India. And to: Ha-Gevir Ha-Sar Mordecai Gabai, leader of the Jewish community in Bombay $3,000.00
LeMishmereth LeBenei Yisrael...[Official appointment of Rabbi David Ash of Kobrintz as Treasurer for all funds emanating from the Austro-Hungarian Empire on behalf of the Jews of the Land of Israel] $1,500.00
Pinkas Shadar (Ledger). Emissary Record-Book. Mission to South Africa. Manuscript on paper. Text in Hebrew and English $3,000.00
Zichron edut... eich she’nimkarti kol ha-gefanim...sheyesh li be-admat Palestine... $6,000.00
MICROGRAPHIC SEPHIRATH HA’OMER CHART. $30,000.00
Moses Before the Amalakites $30,000.00
The Russian-Turkeyish [sic] War "Pllwna". Colored Lithograph. “Copyrigth [sic!] by Prof. J.S. Kolbe, NY.” $5,000.00
“Avodath Yom Hakipurim 5631 Bemachaneh asher al Penei Metz.” Hebrew and German texts. Image in tones of rose and sepia. $1,500.00
Fine three-quarter length portrait of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain in his Library $5,000.00
Aquatint by Demartrait. First Meeting of the Paris Sanhedrin in the Palace of the Prefecture in 1807 $8,000.00
Studious Boy. Signed by the artist in red, in his distinctive style, upper right $6,000.00

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AUCTION 28

April 5, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

Kestenbaum & Company’s Sale of the
The Library of the Late
Professor Abraham J. Karp
Brings Enthusiastic Response

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Product Title	AUCTION 28
Auction Date	Apr 4, 2005
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
International Price	$0.00
Available for Sale	No
Short Description	Kestenbaum & Company’s Sale of the The Library of the Late Professor Abraham J. Karp Brings Enthusiastic Response April 8, 2005 — Buyers responded eagerly to Kestenbaum & Company’s auction that included the library of noted historian, bibliophile and beloved teacher, Abraham Joseph Karp on Tuesday, April 5th. Professor Karp was influential in the world of the Jewish Book and was a pioneering scholar in the field of American Jewish History. Featured in the sale were many fine examples of early printed Hebrew books, Bibles, Hagadahs and attractive bindings along with a small group of graphic art. The top lot of the sale was an eye-catching micrographic Sephirath Ha’omer Chart, possibly Dutch. After heavy bidding in the room and on the phones, it was ultimately purchased for $134,800. Another coveted lot was a fine crisp copy of the Bible in Hebrew printed by Daniel Bomberg, Venice, 1524-5. One of the best of a selection of Bibles in the sale, competitive bidding pushed the selling price up to $118,000 against a pre-auction estimate of $30,000-40,000 Further books achieving high prices were a rare Passover Hagadah, the first to be printed with an English translation, London, 1770, that realized $63,720 against an estimate of $15,000-18,000; a rare edition of Maimonides’ Ma’amar Tehiyath ha-Methim (treatise on Resurrection), Constantinople, 1569, which brought in $61,360 against an estimate of $20,000-30,000; and Schneur Zalman of Liadi’s book of Chaddidism--Sepher Likutei Amarim, Slavuta, 1796. This first book to lay out the philosophy of Chabad Chassidism was highly sought after and garnered $59,000 against an estimate of $30,000-50,000. Additional sale highlights were a rare compendium of papal bullae, “Diverse Papal Bullae Commencing with Boniface VII through Paul IV” including several directed against the Jews, Rome, 1559, which sold for $35,400 against an estimate of $20,000-25,000; Joseph Gikatilla’s book on Kabbalah, Portae Lucis (Gates of Light), Augsburg, 1516, which realized $33,040 against an estimate of $25,000-30,000, and Don Isaac Abrabanel’s Perush Nevi’im Rishonim (commentary to Former Prophets), Pesaro, 1511 which was bought for $20,060 against an estimate of $15,000-20,000. Rounding out the sale in the graphics section was the earliest Biblical painting done by an American Jewish artist--Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The framed painting entitled Moses Before the Amalakites, oil on board, America, ca. 1848-1852, achieved $37,760 against a pre-sale estimate of $25,000-30,000.

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