Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

AUCTION 49

October 27, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

Fine Judaica:
Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts,
Autograph Letters
and Graphic Art
Sold at Auction
Wednesday, October 27th

Kestenbaum & Company successfully held its Fall auction of Fine Judaica on October 27th. Included in the nearly 380-lot sale were Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art. Particularly noteworthy were American-Judaica and Rare Books from the Library of Gratz College, Elkins Park (Part II) and Exceptional Rabbinic Autograph Letters from a Private Collector.

Among the sale’s highlights were Early Hebrew Printed Books: A pristine copy of the first edition of Solomon ibn Adret’s responsa printed by Daniel Bomberg in 1519 realized $12,300 (lot 269); Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome’s Aruch Hakatzur, Constantinople, 1511, reached $9,225 against an estimate of $3,000-5,000 (lot 248) and Isaiah ben Abraham Halevi’s (SheLa”H HaKadosh) Shnei Luchoth HaBerith, Amsterdam, 1698, achieved $7,995 (lot 175).

Further 16th century books of note were Soncino’s scarce Hebrew primer—Introductio ad litteras hebraicas, Pesaro, 1510, garnering $6,765 (lot 272); Abraham ibn Ezra’s book on Astrology—De Nativitatibus, Cologne, 1537, earning $1,845 (lot 47) and Estienne’s pocket Hebrew Bible, Paris, 1543-46, yielding $4,920 (lot 56). A later Bible generating interest was a Hebrew Pentateuch from Vienna, 1815, government-authorized for use in the Courts of Law of Prague to administer the Oath to Jewish witnesses, which earned $3,690 (lot 64).

Top performers among Chassidic books were two texts relating to the Chabad movement, both written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi: Likutei Amarim (second edition), Zolkiew, 1799, attained $10,455 (lot 80) and Likutei Torah (first edition), Zhitomir, 1848-1851, was purchased for $3,998 (lot 83). Among liturgical books a Machzor, Amschel Mayer Rothschild’s personal copy, Roedelheim, 1800, brought in $4,613 (lot 258).

Notable books relating to Germany were Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein’s Der Vollkommenen Pferde-Kenners, (Volume II only) Uffenheim, 1764, a unique veterinary work with a Yiddish glossary, which earned $4,305 (lot 127) and Simon Wolff Brandes’ Bi’ur Sod Hanevu’ah which realized $2,768 (lot 125).

Attracting attention in the Passover Hagadah section of the sale was a copy of the second Amsterdam Hagadah with a folding map of the Holy Land, 1712, which sold for $7,073 (lot 141). Also finding favor with buyers was the Toulouse Hagadah, produced from memory by a group of Jews interned in France during the Second World War, which brought in $8,610 (lot 154) and Beith Chorin, an attractive copy of the first illustrated Hagadah printed in France, 1767, which fetched $3,998 (lot 142).

The American Judaica section of the sale featured distinctive selections such as a handwritten Hebrew Marriage Contract dated July 1861 from Peoria, Illinois, which was acquired for $14,760 (lot 21); Judah Monis’ Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, the first Hebrew Grammar published in the New World, Boston, 1735, which earned $11,070 (lot 7) and a volume of The Jew, edited by Solomon Henry Jackson, distinguished for being the first Jewish Periodical in America, New York, 1823-4, which realized $6,150 (lot 11).

Books relating to the Land of Israel and Zionism included two significant editions of Theodor Herzl’s important manifesto, Der Judenstaat: The first Hebrew edition, Warsaw, 1896, garnered $3,383 (lot 285) and the first edition to be printed in America, New York, 1904, was purchased for $3,383 (lot 286). Also of interest was the first edition of the Zohar to be printed in Jerusalem, 1844-46, which sold for $3,690 (lot199).

In the Art Books section, Joseph Tchaikov’s finely illustrated Yiddish book, Der Galaganer-Hon, Berlin, 1922, achieved $2,460 (lot 315) and Marc Chagall’s Yiddish Language Art Periodical, Chaliastra, Paris, 1924, brought in $1,476 (lot 295).

Highlighting the Manuscripts Section of the sale was an extensive book of prayers according to the meditations of Rabbi Isaac Luria, 1732-38, which attained $24,600 (lot 352). Also commanding high prices were Moreh Tzedek, a scholarly manuscript penned in the 18th century by the Sha’agath Aryeh’s first cousin, which earned $15,990 (lot 362); a collection of Hebrew medieval manuscript fragments, which was purchased for $11,070 against an estimate of $5,000-7,000 (lot 357) and a Pinkas from the historic Churvah Synagogue, Jerusalem, 1889-96, which brought in $20,910, nearly tripling its estimate of $5,000-7,000 (lot 351).

The Autograph Letters section of the sale was particularly impressive and buyers eagerly responded to the opportunity to own written communications by some of the most important and influential Rabbinic authorities of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selling particularly well were letters by Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin (the Chofetz Chaim), reaching $33,210 against an estimate of $15,000-20,000 (lot 332); Reb Chaim Soloveitchik, yielding $20,910 against an estimate of $12,000-18,000 (lot 342); Moses Sofer (the Chatham Sofer) earning $18,450 (lot 338); Meir Leibush Malbim achieving $9,840 against an estimate of $2,000-3,000 (lot 326) and Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (the Chazon Ish), attaining $3,383 (lot 334).

Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction of Fine Judaica will take place in early Winter 2011. The sale will feature Iberian-Judaica: The Distinguished Library of the late Alfonso Cassuto of Lisbon.

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Grouped product items
Product Name
Opera $900.00
NO LOT $0.00
NO LOT $0.00
(BIBLE $6,000.00
Hebrew) $6,000.00
(GERMANY) $2,500.00
(PRAGUE). $600.00
Stempeniou $800.00
(LITURGY). $25,000.00
(KARAITICA, $150.00
(Machzor) $5,000.00
(GENEALOGY). $200.00
(Attributed to). Sepher HaChinuch [“Book of Education”: Exposition of the 613 precepts divided according to the pericope of the week] $7,000.00
Abudraham [commentary to prayers, including Passover Hagadah] $700.00
(Ed.) Mehararei Nemeirim [principles of Talmudic methodology] $900.00
Sepher Ha’ikrim [philosophy] $5,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH WITH HAPHTAROTH). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher $900.00
Newspaper). Gazette of the United States. Vol. II, No. 44 $3,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $15,000.00
The American Magazine, for June 1758. (pp. 411-460) $7,000.00
Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Vol. VII Includes legislation permitting a lottery to raise funds for the benefit of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia $6,000.00
The Hebrew Bible; from the Edition of Everardo van der Hooght. Nos. 1 and 2 $1,500.00
The Jew; Being a Defence of Judaism Against All Adversaries, and Particularly Against the Insidious Attacks of Israel's Advocate. Edited by Solomon Henry Jackson $7,000.00
(BIBLE, Hebrew and English. PENTATEUCH). Torath HaElo-him - The Law of God. "Edited, and with Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised” by Isaac Leeser $9,000.00
John W. Orr. Pictorial Guide to the Falls of Niagara: A Manual for Visiters [sic] $1,500.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA). $3,000.00
SALOMON, LOUIS. The Mosaic System in Its Fundamental Principles $500.00
NOAH, MORDECAI MANUEL. Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest $1,000.00
Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Includes: “An Act To Incorporate the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia.” $7,000.00
Tehilim / Liber Psalmorum $1,500.00
Newman, Selig. The Challenge Accepted; A Dialogue Between a Jew and a Christian: The Former Answering a Challenge Thrown Out by the Latter, Respecting the Accomplishment of the Prophecies Predictive of the Advent of Jesus $500.00
Lyons, Jacques J[udah] and De Sola, Abraham. A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years $6,000.00
(AMERICAN JUDAICA) $18,000.00
Raphall, Morris Jacob. Ruchama - Devotional Excercises for the Daughters of Israel...Upon the Various Occasions of a Woman’s Life $1,500.00
Leeser, Isaac(Ed.). Sidur Siphthei Tzadikim / The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews $2,500.00
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
Imrei Lev / Meditations and Prayers for Every Situation and Occasion in Life $1,500.00
Felsenthal, Bernhard. Juedisches Schulwesen in Amerika [“A Jewish School System in America.”] $1,500.00
Johlson, Joseph. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion $900.00
(Newspaper). The New York Times. Vol. XVIII, No. 5362. Contains on p. 2, "Gen. Grant's Jew Order: Why It Was Issued - A Statement of the Circumstances of the Case." Also Editorial comment on p.4 $2,000.00
MIELZINER, M[OSES]. Wie und was soll gepredigt, und wie die Predigt gehört werden? $500.00
Lied zum fünfundzwanzigjährigen Dienst-Jubiläum des Herrn Isidor Fränkel, Cantor der Gemeinde Rodef Schalom $300.00
Invocation by Rev. S. Morais; Delivered at the Funeral of Joseph L. Moss $700.00
Hahn, Aaaron. Okrei Harim Rabbinical Dialectics, History of the Dialecticians and Dialectics of the Mishnah and Talmud $500.00
Morais, Henry Samuel. Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Biographical Sketches $300.00
Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the First Hebrew Sunday School in America. American Academy of Music, March Third, 1888. Philadelphia $800.00
Malachovsky, Hillel. K'thabim Basepher / Sketches and Letters from Jewish Life in America $300.00
Nezer Gaba'uth Kodesh - General Orphans Asylum and Public Kitchen. Founded by the Galilee Aid Society of New York in Safed, Palestine $1,500.00
Group of five volumes (incomplete) $700.00
*She'eloth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. ff. 34, 33-76, (5). Learned marginalium on f.77r. BOUND WITH: ANGEL, BARUCH. Chidushei Harav [Talmudic novellae]. ff.160.** $300.00
NIETO, DAVID. Mateh Dan-Kuzari Chelek Sheni $1,500.00
The Jewish Repository, or Monthly Communications Respecting the Jews, and the Proceedings of the London Society. Vol. I $500.00
Nikelsburger, Jacob. Kol Ya’akov / Koul Jacob, in Defence of the Jewish Religion: Containing the Arguments of the Rev. C.F. Frey, One of the Committee of the London Society for the Conversion of the Jews, and Answers Thereto $700.00
The Form of Prayers - Machzor miKol HaShanah [festival prayers for entire year]. According to Polish rite $2,500.00
(Alexander McCaul). Nethivoth Olam $500.00
Eisenmenger, Johann Andrea. Entdecktes Judenthum ["Judaism Revealed"] $700.00
(Saks da Castellazzo) (Editor). Heichal Hashem [collected essays by early Kabbalists] $900.00
Sepher Hamidoth [Nichomachean Ethics]. Traslated into Hebrew Don Meir Alguadez of Castille. Edited with an extensive commentary by Isaac Satanow $500.00
ABRAHAM JUDAEI (IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM ). De Nativitatibus ["Of Nativities"]. Edited by Johann Dryander $1,800.00
LEVI, RAPHAEL, OF HANOVER. Techunath HaShamayim [calculations of intercalation and the Jewish calendar]. Edited by Moses ben Jekuthiel of Tiktin $700.00
Kitzurei ibn Rushd [philosophy] $1,000.00
Sepher Chareidim [on the halachic, ethical and religious reasons of the precepts] $900.00
(Chid”a). LeDavid Emeth -Torath HaShelamim [laws of writing a Torah Scroll] $180.00
Biur al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch] $700.00
Bechinath Olam [“Contemplation of the World.”] With anonymous commentary $15,000.00
Kitvei Ch.N. Bialik u-Mivchar Targumav [“The Collected Works of Bialik, with a Selection of his Translations.”] $900.00
Hebrew). With Nikud. Four parts bound in four volumes $7,000.00
Haphtaroth according to Sepharic and Aschkenazic rites $150.00
Judeo-German). Followed by the “To’aliyoth” (moral lessons) of Levi ben Gershom (RaLBa”G or Gersonides) on Joshua, Judges and Samuel $900.00
Torah, Nevi'im u-Kethuvim $500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS & HAPHTAROTH). Tikun Sopherim $600.00
Hebrew and Latin). Biblia Hebraica. Torah, Nevi’im, U’Kethuvim. With Latin translation by Sebastian Schmidt $300.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH & FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With vocalization and cantillation points. With commentary Totze’oth Chaim by Chaim Boskowitz $700.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. With Judeo-German summaries $3,500.00
Hebrew. PENTATEUCH AND HAPHTAROTH). Me’or Einayim. Prepared by Wolf Heidenheim, with commentary Ein Hakore and Ein Hasoher $1,500.00
Book of Ruth). Hebrew text with translation into the Auvergnat dialect by J. Labouderie. * Appened: Syriac version of the Parable of the Prodigal Son from Book of Luke with translation into Auvergnat dialect $300.00
Hebrew. Pentateuch and Five Scrolls.) Including commentraries by: Chaim Yoseph David Azulai, Nachal Kedumim, and Shimon Halevi Auschenburg, Devek Tov $180.00
BASS, SHABBTHAI. Siphthei Yesheinim [the first Hebrew language bibliography of Hebrew books] $300.00
AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID. Shem HaGedolim. Edited by Yitzchak Eizik Ben-Ya'akov $300.00
Reshimath HaSepharim $500.00
IAKERSON, SHIMON (Ed.). Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America $600.00
Collection of c. 190 Festschriften in honor of a wide variety of Jewish scholars, bound in c. 210 volumes $5,000.00
ISRAEL BEN BENJAMIN OF BELZEC. Yalkut Chadash [kabbalistic midrashim] $600.00
Machzor shel Kol Hashanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the Italian rite $600.00
ZWIEBEL, SALOMON. Zer HaNitzachon ["The Crown of Victory": defense of Judaism by Joseph Samuel Bloch against anti-Semitic accusations by Prof. Rohling] $150.00
Hochzeits-Hagada $300.00
Kanaph Rananim [liturgical poetry - Piyutim] $400.00
Pirkei Shirah [extensive commentary to this liturgical poem] $300.00
MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES / RaMBa”M). Pe’er HaDor [letters and responsa]. Translated into Hebrew from the Arabic by MORDECHAI Ta Ma. With introduction in Spanish by Jacob Sasportas, and laudatory poems $500.00
Shneur Zalman of LiadI. Tanya - Likutei Amarim $10,000.00
NACHMAN BEN SIMCHA OF BRESLOV. Likutei Mahara”n [seminal teachings of Breslov Chassidism] $1,200.00
Horowitz, Aaron Halevi. Sha’arei Avodah $1,500.00
(CHASSIDISM). $5,000.00
CHAIM TRYEZR OF CZERNOWITZ. Eretz HaChaim Part I: [novellae to Tactate Berachoth]. Part II:[homilies to the Bible.] $250.00
Judah ben Bezalel Loewe, (MaHaRa"L of Prague). Be'er HaGolah [theology]. Appended: Three glosses of R. Israel ben Shabthai Hapstein, the Magid of Kozhnitz $900.00
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Oheiv Yisrael ["Lover of Israel": homilies on Pentateuch and Festivals, and collectanea] $1,500.00
Milei D’Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Fathers] $200.00
Ma’aseh Tuviah $3,500.00
Ma’aseh Tuviah $700.00
(CZECH REPUBLIC) $900.00
Ohr Ne’erav ["Sweet Light”- Kabbalah] $1,200.00
Go'el Yisrael / Theologia Israelis $300.00
De Republica Hebraeorum $500.00
*. Tzaphnath Pane'ach HeChadash. ff. 29, 40-46, 37-60. BOUND WITH: ELIEZER LIPMAN BEN MENACHEM MENLE OF ZAMOSC. Lekach Tov. ff. (4), 60. Leaves 24-26 vandalized with loss** $500.00
Massa Krim [Travels in Crimea] $300.00
Masa Be’Eropa / Reise durch Europa [travels in Europe]. pp. (4), 196, (2). * Bound with: Masa Be’eretz Hakedem [guide for visitors to the Holy Land and Egypt]. pp. 83. Marginalia. Illustration of Egyptian pyramid and Sphinx on p. 20 $300.00
Cherev Lashem Ule’Yisrael [rrefutation of Joseph Klausner's “Yeshu HaNotzri.”] $180.00
(YaSha”R). Sepher Ma’ayan Ganim - Sepher Mayan Chathum - Sepher Elim $3,000.00
Shir LeYom Chathunath $1,000.00
GÄNS, SIMON. Kol Hamon Chogeg $1,000.00
[super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]. Anonymous $700.00
Psst...! Paraissant le Samedi. Complete run of 85 issues $1,500.00
L'Illustration Juive - Iton Ivri Metzuyar. Founded by Rabbi David Prato of Alexandria, Egypt $600.00
Gelegentliches von Albert Einstein–Zum Fünfzigsten Geburtstag, 14. März 1929 [“...On the Occasion of his Fiftieth Birthday.”] $300.00
EISENSTADT, MEIR $700.00
Shevet Musar [ethical sermons] with additional notes by the publishers $200.00
of Constantinople (RANa”Ch). Teshuvoth She'eloth [responsa] $1,000.00
Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim] $2,500.00
Yalkut Ephraim [an anthology of commentaries from Midrash, Zohar and later Kabbalistic works to Torah and Megiloth]. * Bound with: Sam Chaim [encyclopedic compilation of Midrash, with ethical exhortations] $500.00
(ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA) $500.00
Devar Eliahu [commentary to the Book of Job, etc.] $700.00
Jerusalem and Tiberias; Sora and Cordova: A Survey of the Religious and Scholastic Learning of the Jews; Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Hebrew Literature $300.00
Faïtlovitch, Jacques. The Black Jews of Abyssinia. pp.15. New York , 1915. * AND: Zepin, George. The Falashas. A Report Concerning the Advisibility of Establishing a School for Hebrew among the Falashas of Abyssinia. pp. 23. Cincinnati, 1912 $300.00
Pri Eitz Hadar [collected Rabbinic letters regarding the superior kashruth of the Ethrogim grown in the Arab groves of the Um al Pahum region, near Safed] $300.00
Sepher Teshuvoth [responsa]. $700.00
Ya’aroth Devash [sermons and eulogies]. Two volumes $600.00
Priere Faite par les Juifs Portugais de Bordeaux, pour obtenir de Dieu le rétablissement de la santé de Monseigneur le Dauphin $1,000.00
Monteil, Abraham. (Ed.) Seder LeShalosh Regalim [Festival prayers] $900.00
Sepher HaZikaron [eulogies for prominent Rabbis, notably R. Joshua Eizik of Slonim]. Appended, prayers for the dying and the dead. $300.00
Korban Chagigah [halachic novellae] $400.00
Historia Judaica [Latin translation of Solomon ibn Verga’s historiography, “Shevet Yehudah”] $900.00
SCHUDT, JOHANN JAKOB. Jüdischer Merckwürdigkeiten [Jewish Curiosities] $2,500.00
Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein. Der Vollkommenen Pferde-Kenners [“The Complete Horse-Guide”] $4,000.00
Erneuertes und Bestimmteres Stempel- und Karten- Edict $700.00
Der Jude, eine Wochenschrift [“The Jew, a Weekly.”] Published by Gottfried Selig $1,500.00
MARKUS HOROVITZ. Avnei Zikaron - Die Inschriften des alten Friedhofs der Israelitischen Gemeinde zu Frankfurt a.M $300.00
DOV BER WACHSTEIN. Avnei Esh $300.00
Dietz, Alexander. The Jewish Community of Frankfurt--A Genealogical Study, 1349-1849 $200.00
(Ra”N). Chidushei Harav Rabbeinu Nissim [index of citations of Maimonides’ Code]. Edited by Joseph Ottolenghi $300.00
Sha’arei Tzedek [Kabbalah - on the Sephiroth] $900.00
Sha’arei Orah $700.00
Brill, Joel. Amudei HaLashon / Die Elemente der Hebraischen Schprache $300.00
BENLEVI, MOSES J. Moreh Shoresh Ha’Ever / Hebräischer Wurzelzeiger [tables of Hebrew roots] $700.00
Sha'agath Aryeh [Talmud novellae] $150.00
(Editor). Albatros [avant-garde Yiddish literary journal] $2,500.00
Megaleh Sod [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary to Five Scrolls]. With Ma’amar HaMada [introduction to the sciences and religious philosophy] $300.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and "Bi'urim" (synopses of commentaries of Ma'aseh Hashem, Mateh Aharon and Chevel B'nei Yehudah) $6,000.00
Beith Chorin. With commentaries culled from Alsheich, Gevuroth Hashem by the MaHaRa”L of Prague and Oleloth Ephraim by R. Ephraim of Luntshits $3,000.00
London Times. Issue of the newspaper containing English translation of entire text of the Passover Hagadah, offered as defense against the Blood Libel raised against the Jews in the notorious "Damascus Affair" $7,000.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach / Erzählung von dem Auszuge Israels aus Egypten, an den beiden ersten Pessach-Abenden. $700.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Service for the Two First Nights of Passover $700.00
Kitzur Hagadah LeLeil Pesach / Family Service for the Eve of Passover $700.00
Hagadah shel Pessach. According to the custom of Baghdad $700.00
Diese Faksimile-Ausgabe des Erstdruckes der Pessach Haggadah aus dem Machsor Soncino 1485. [Facsimilie of the Soncino Hagadah of 1485] $150.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. Designed and illustrated by Jakob Steinhardt. Hebrew type-face designed by Franziska Baruch. $900.00
Die Pessach-Haggadah des Gerschom Kohen, Prag 5287 / 1527 [Facsimile Edition of the Prague Hagadah of 1527]. With explanatory booklet in German $600.00
Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary "VeZoth LiYehudah" $150.00
Offenbacher Haggadah. $700.00
Hagadah shel Pesach - Gebeden en Gezangen voor de Seideravonden $300.00
(The Toulouse Hagadah). Prepared by Joshua Bindiger $7,000.00
La Haggadah de Pessach $1,500.00
Hagadah shel Pesach. With German translation $250.00
Hagadath Prague. Facsimile of the 1527 Prague Hagadah $1,200.00
[Kuzari] Liber Cosri [philosophy]. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon. Introduction, translation and notes in Latin by Johannes Buxtorf $500.00
Die Juden und die Slawischen Sprachen / HaYehudim U’Sephath HaSlavim $300.00
Tzurath Beith Hamikdash He’athid [on the design of the third Temple] $500.00
HOMBERG, HERZ. Imrei Shefer [educational manual for children] $600.00
(“BEN UZIEL”). Igroth Tzaphun. Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum [“Ninteen Letters about Judaism.”] $1,000.00
Yamim MiKedem [Biblical chronology] $150.00
Kuleib, Chaim ben Yehudah. Megllath Haman Ha’Hitlera'i shel Yameinu ["Scroll of the Hitlerite Haman of Our Day": parodical megilah] $250.00
Leah & Sieg Gitter (Eds.). Rosj Hasjanah en Jom Kippoer $1,500.00
Tefilah tzu Beten in der Yetztige Milchamah Tzeit - "Tfiloh" - Special Prayers to be Recited in the Present War-Time for Victory. Edited by Chakover Grand Rabbi, Jacob Halberstam $300.00
SARIN, E. Hitlerisher Roib un Mord in Lite [“Hitlerist Robbery and Murder in Lithuania.”] $500.00
The Palestine Post - EXTRA. “All Germans Surrender.” - “Doenitz Announces Unconditional Capitulation". $700.00
*Register of Jewish Survivors, Vol. I - List of Jews Rescued in Different European Countries (60,000 Names) WITH: Register of Jewish Survivors, Vol. II - List of Jews in Poland (58,000 Names)** $900.00
Birkath HaMazon [Grace After Meals]. Includes Keri'ath Shema al HaMitah [prayers before retiring to sleep] and Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial prayers for deceased] $800.00
Vaad Hatzalah Rescue Committee: A group of c. 37 books and pamphlets, including Halacha, Chassidism, Prayer-books, etc. With a Kitzur Shulchan Aruch inscribed by the Bluzhover Rebbe, Israel Spira $900.00
The Holy Bible - Chamishah Chumshei Torah $300.00
Kuntress Kithvei Kodesh [selected letters of the Rebbes of Slonim] $300.00
Mishpat Eichmann: Pesak HaDin [“The Eichmann Trial - the Verdict”] $1,000.00
(SheLa”H HaKadosh). Shnei Luchoth HaBerith ["Two Tablets of the Law"]. Issued with Vavei HaAmudim by Author's son Shabthai Sheftel Horowitz $7,000.00
REICH, IGNAZ. Beth-El. Ehrentempel verdienter ungarischer Israeliten $500.00
Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choice of Pearls”–ethics] $900.00
*Mashal HaKadmoni [collected fables] WITH: Sepher HaTapu’ach [philosophy attributed to Aristotle]** $1,500.00
GEIGER, ABRAHAM. Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume Aufgenommen? [“What did Mohammed Take from Judaism?”] $500.00
MUNK, SALOMON. Palestine. Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique $500.00
STANLEY, ARTHUR P. Sinai and Palestine in Connection with their History $150.00
Kol Mevaser, Mevaser Ve’Omer $900.00
Schwarz, Joseph. Divrei Yoseph - (Toldoth Yoseph) $900.00
Schwarz, Joseph. Divrei Yoseph. Parts III and IV: Peri Tevu'ah and Pardes. $900.00
Schwarz, Joseph. Das Heilige Land $600.00
FORSTER, CHARLES. Sinai Photographed or Contemporary Records of Israel in the Desert. With an Appendix [The Hamyaritic Inscriptions] $1,200.00
KLOETZEL, C.Z. The Way to the Wailing Wall [tourist's guide book] $300.00
Telephone Directory. $1,500.00
Palestine Government Industrial Exhibition, Cairo 1941 $500.00
HaModi'in BeMishtarah ["Police Intelligence": police manual providing techniques for intelligence-gathering] $600.00
Bi’urim [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch] $500.00
Tze’enah Ure’enah $700.00
Flavii Josephi hooghberoemde Joodsche historien, ende boecken. Noch Egesippus vande ellendighe verstoringe der Stadt Jerusalem $500.00
SAKON, YOSHISHIGE. Beginning Hebrew [Hebrew primer] $90.00
Shalmei Simcha [Talmudic novellae to Tractate Berachoth and Seder Mo'ed] $500.00
National-Gesänge der Hebräer [“National Songs of the Hebrews.”] $300.00
GABBAI, MEIR IBN. Tola'ath Ya'akov ["Worm of Jacob": kabbalistic commentary to prayer] $600.00
SHIMON B”R YOCHAI (Attributed to). Sepher haZohar [The Book of Splendor]. With glosses by R. Chaim Vital, R. Moshe Cordovero, R. Moshe Zacuto, R. Yitzchak Luria and R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Chid”a), Devash LePhi $4,000.00
Raziel HaMalach. Attributed to the Angel Raziel as instructed to Adam Kadmon ("Primordial Man") upon expulsion from Paradise $500.00
Toldoth Yitzchak [commentary to the Pentateuch] $700.00
BOHDAN, JANUSZ. Karaici w Polsce [“Karaites in Poland”] $200.00
(RaDa”K). Sepher HaShorashim [“Book of Roots;” Biblical lexicon and grammar] $500.00
She'eloth U’Teshuvoth Tzemach Tzedek [responsa] $500.00
Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law] $10,000.00
LEUSDEN, JOHANNES. $500.00
RaLBa”G). Milchamoth Hashem [“Wars of the Lord”: philosophy] $900.00
*Vriendelyke onderhandeling met een geleerden Jood. Appended: Acosta, Uriel. Voorbeeld van’t Menschelyk Leven [“The Ideal of Human Life.”]** $500.00
Machzor [festival prayers] $12,000.00
Machzor Le’Nusach Barcelona Minhag Catalonia [Festival prayers for the New Year and Day of Atonement]. According to the Custom of Barcelona and Catalonia $3,000.00
*Precationes Hebraicae…[Birkath HaMazon]. Appended: Mah she-mone'a ha-yehudim she-lo ya'aminu… / Quid obstet iudaeis quo minus credant… [“What Prevents the Jews from Believing”]** $5,000.00
Sha’ar Bath Rabim [prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With commentary Hadrath Kodesh by Isaac Segal of Herlisheim $4,000.00
Chizuk ha-Bayith / Gebete und Gesänge [Reform prayers for New Year and Day of Atonement], Prepared by Leopold Stein $300.00
Gebete der Hochdeutschen und Polnischen Juden. Translated from the Hebrew and accompanied with remarks by Isaac Abraham Euchel $1,500.00
Machzor [Festival prayers]. According to the custom of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, etc $4,000.00
Seder Tephilloth LeMatzav HaSha'ah Be-Eretz Yisrael. Edited by Ben-Zion Meir Chai Uziel, Rishon LeZion, Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel $250.00
Group of eleven volumes of prayers all printed in Venice. (One printed in Turin: “Kevod HaBayith” [dedication of the Aschkenazic synagogue of Turin]. 1826 $700.00
Group of six prayer-books of interesting and exotic rites: $1,200.00
Group of ten volumes: $1,500.00
etc.) Group of c. 27 volumes. Many incomplete. $1,800.00
Tephiloth Yisrael / Gebete der Juden $1,800.00
Ritualgesetze der Juden $500.00
Teivath Noach / Arca Noe. Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae Novus $700.00
Ochlah Ve-Ochlah. edited from a manuscript discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, by F. Frensdorff $150.00
*LINDER, NACHMAN TZEVI, OF DUBNO. Chochmath HaMispar [arithmetic and algebra]. pp. (8), 138. Bound With: MAPU, ABRAHAM. Der Hausfranzose [Yiddish-French primer]. pp. 6, 36** $500.00
*CARMOLY, ELIAKIM. Histoire des Médecins Juifs. BOUND WITH: DUPOUY, EDMOND. Le Moyen Age Médical** $300.00
Nishmath Chaim [“The Breath of Life”: on the immortality of the soul]. With afterword and poem in praise of the author and his book by Jacob Sasportas, Benjamin Mussafia and Samuel ben Abraham Jessurun Demercado $500.00
Mayim Rabim [responsa] $500.00
Ta’amei Mitzvoth [on the categories and reasons for the precepts] $4,000.00
Heichal HaKodesh [Biblical concordance]. $250.00
Mykur Hayem: Mistranslations and Difficult Passages of the Old Testament...Corrected and Explained...and also Some Views of the Following Hebrew Commentators: Baal Hatoorim, Rashi, Aben Ezra, Rudakh, Ralbak, &c $700.00
HOROWITZ, CHAIM MEIR. Kevod Chupah [scholarly treatment of unpublished Midrashic texts] $150.00
Seder Tephiloth LeChodashim U'LeMo’adim [prayers for the entire year]. According to the Sephardi rite $3,000.00
Mischnah. Oder der Text des Talmuds. Translated into German by Johann Jacob Rabe $1,000.00
Ne'eman Shmuel [responsa] $500.00
Marpe LaNephesh [selected readings from Zohar for recitation on the Sabbath] $400.00
Sepher Rav Mordechai [Halachic compendium]. WITH: Simanei Mordechai [Index] by R. Joseph Ottolenghi $1,500.00
Etz HaDa'ath. Commentary to Bechinath Olam $300.00
/ RaMBa”M). (Moreh Nevuchim). The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides. Translated from the original Arabic and annotated by M[ichael] Friedländer $700.00
/ RaMBa”M). The Laws of the Hebrews, Relating to the Poor and the Stranger, from the "Mischna-Hathorah" of the Rabbi Maimonides: Now First Translated into English by James W. Peppercorne. With...an Account of the Life and Writings of Maimonides $600.00
Darchei HaNikud VehaNeginoth $300.00
Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol (SeMa”G) [“The Great Book of Commandments”: Enumeration of the 613 precepts] $1,500.00
Sepher Nitzachon-Liber Nizachon $900.00
Sepher Zemiroth Yisrael / Gesang-Buch, zum Gebrauch bei dem Unterrichte in der mosaischen Religion und zur öffentichen und hauslichen Gottesverehrung der Israeliten im Königreich Wurttemberg [hymnal with musical notation] $300.00
RAVINA, MENASHE. Milon LeMusikah [dictionary of musicology]. Edited by B. Ben-Yehudah $90.00
Aruch Hakatzur [abridged dictionary of the Talmud] $5,000.00
RAFAELI (RAFAELOVICH), SAMUEL. MiMatbe'ot HaYehudim. Introduction by Ephraim Deinard $180.00
Syntagma de Vaticinio Jacobi [Christological work based on Genesis 49:10] $500.00
Otzar Leshon ha-Kodesh - Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae $500.00
Epitome Thesauri Linguæ Sanctæ $300.00
(Attributed to). Ma’arecheth Ha’Elo-huth [Kabbalah]. Includes commentary by the Italian mystic Judah Chayat and another (see below) $1,500.00
BIERUT, BOLESLAW. Szescioletni Plan Odbudowy Warszawy [“Six-Year Plan for Rebuilding Warsaw.”] $150.00
Zecher Tzaddik [biography]. Edited by his son-in-law, Eliezer Leizer Katzenellenbogen $500.00
(Hamburg Rabbinate). Eileh Divrei HaBerith [collected letters from leading rabbis denouncing Reform synagogue practices] $400.00
Löwenstamm, Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb. Tzeror HaChaim $500.00
Machzor - Sepher Kerovoth [Festival Prayers for the first two days of Passover]. According to Aschkenazic rite $3,000.00
Ayer, Jules. A Century of Finance, 1804 to 1904. The London House of Rothschild $1,800.00
Toldoth Russya [history of Russia from its founding until the present]. Translated by Judah-Leib Germaiza $300.00
Sepher Kerithoth [Talmudic methodology] $8,000.00
Peirush HaGet [treatise on the Bill of Divorce] $5,000.00
Imrei Binah [elucidation of kabbalistic concepts] $500.00
Torath Chaim [novellae to Talmud Tractates Baba Kama, Baba Metzia and Baba Bathra] $2,500.00
Torath Chaim [novellae to Talmud Tractates Eiruvin, Sanhedrin, Shavuoth, Avodah Zara, Chulin and Pesachim] $2,000.00
Matzath Shimurim [Kabbalistic treatises on the precepts of Mezuzah, Tzitzith, and Tefillin] $400.00
Ithiel HaKushi MeVenezia / Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakspeare [sic!]. Translated into Hebrew by J.E. Salkinson. Edited by Peretz Smolenskin $900.00
Neveh Shalom [philosophy] $500.00
SOLOMON IBN ADRET. $12,000.00
(RaShB”A). Chidushei Gitin [novellae to Talmudic Tractate Gitin] $3,000.00
(“R. Chaim Brisker”). Chidushei Rabbenu Chaim HaLevi [on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah] $1,200.00
Introductio ad litteras hebraicas [“Introduction to Hebrew Letters”] $6,000.00
Bericht über die Tätigkeit im ersten Gesellschaftsjahr [“Report on Activities in the First Year of the Society.”] $180.00
Masecheth Sophrim. With Mikra’ei Kodesh by Y. E. Landau and comments by the Vilna Gaon $500.00
(TEN LOST TRIBES) $300.00
Givath Sha'ul [eulogy for Saul HaLevi, Av Beth Din of The Hague] $700.00
Seder Limmud...BeB[eith] HaK[nesseth] HaGedolah shel K”K Livorno $300.00
(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE) $9,000.00
Masechta Kidushin. With commentary of Rashi. $50,000.00
Masecheth Menachoth [Tractate "Meal-Offerings"] $15,000.00
Shlom Esther [commentary to the Book of Esther] $5,000.00
Shirei Tiphereth [poetry] $500.00
Salomé: Tragedie in ein akt. Translated into Yiddish by Abraham Frumkin $300.00
GRAYEVSKY, PINCHAS. Benoth Tziyon VeYerushalayim: Sepher Zikaron $300.00
Herzl, Theodor. Medinat HaYehudim (Der Judenstaat). [“The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question”]. Translated by Michel Berkowitsch $3,000.00
Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State $3,000.00
Zionisten-Congress in Basel (29, 30 und 31 August 1897) Officielles Protocoll $900.00
Anti-). Hermann Adler. Religious Versus Political Zionism: A Sermon Preached at the North London Synagogue $700.00
Anti-). Ge'onei Aretz al Ha-Mizrachi [opposition to the Mizrachi (Religious Zionist) Movement in Eretz Israel] $500.00
(Editor). Di Farshvundene Velt / The Vanished World $500.00
Reden / Berichte und Weissagunen Jesajas. Prepared by Lazarus Goldschmidt $1,000.00
Chad Gadjo. German translation by Uriel Birnbaum $1,500.00
Der Nister (Pinchas Kahanovich). Mayselech in Ferzen ["Tales in Verse"] $500.00
Chaliastra [Yiddish Language Art Periodical]. No. 1 $1,200.00
Chaliastra [Yiddish Language Art Periodical]. No. 2 $1,200.00
KATZ, ALEPH (i.e. Moyshe Avraham Katz). Fun Aleph biz Tov [primer in rhyme] $300.00
GUR-ARYE, MEIR. $1,200.00
Eretz-Israel–The Land of Promise $500.00
Whitechapel Art Gallery. Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities $600.00
Mordechai Narkiss. The Hanukkah Lamp $900.00
Alfred Rubens. A Jewish Iconography. $300.00
Die Bücher der Bibel. Edited by F. Rahlwes. Extensively illustrated throughout by Lilien $700.00
Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familien-Leben. Plates by Moritz Oppenheim depicting a romanticized view of 18th-century German-Jewish life and custom $700.00
The Jew at Home. Impressions of a Summer and Autumn Spent with Him $180.00
Histoire Générale des Cérémonies, Moeurs, et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde ["General History of the Ceremonies, Mores and Religious Customs of All the Peoples of the World."] $5,000.00
(RABAN, ZE’EV). $400.00
Chageinu [Our Holidays: children’s book] $700.00
Palestine - 10 Pictures $300.00
Visages d'Israel. Ten (of twelve) color lithographs. Limited edition of 250. Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Signed on plate-list $3,000.00
The God-Seekers. Complete set of ten woodcuts. From the limited series of twenty ("I-XX.") Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Title-page additionally signed and warmly inscribed by Rubens to his "Wondeful Compagnons." $5,000.00
Zein Leben un Shafen [“His Life and Work”]. Edited by A. Tscherikower $700.00
Twelve Original Lithographs...for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Gentleman from Cracow" and "The Mirror." Limited edition of 150. Each plate signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Signed by Isaac Singer on title-page $1,500.00
Maiselakh [“Mice”]. Classic tale by Brothers Grimm. Yiddish translation by N. Luria. Illustrations by J. Tchaikov $900.00
Der Galaganer-Hon [“The Arrogant Rooster”]. A children’s tale by Peretz Markish $3,000.00
Palestine. 12 Facsimile Plates from Drawings $700.00
H. Berthold Schriftgiessereien und Messinglinien-Fabriken Aktien-Gesselschaft [Catalogue of H. Berthold Type-Foundry]. $300.00
Xiegi. Niektore z Zydowskich Pism Starego Zakonu Wybrane [selected stories from the Old Testament]. Translated by Jerzy Zulawski. $700.00
ABU-HATZE’IRA, ISRAEL (BABA SALI). $3,000.00
(The "Imrei Emeth," Grand Rabbi of Gur. 1866-1948). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to Rabbi Moshe Kliers of Tiberias $2,500.00
(The “Netzi’v,” 1817-1893). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to R. Joseph Rivlin (Director of the Vaad HaKelali of Jerusalem) $900.00
(1891-1954). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to an unnamed relative $600.00
(1895-1985). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead $500.00
(R. Itzikel of Przeworsk, 1882-1976). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to Samuel Nathan-Nata $3,000.00
(of Zevil, 1861-1945). Letter Signed in Hebrew $7,000.00
GRODZINSKI, CHAIM OZER $900.00
(The "Arugath HaBosem.”) Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to R. Yoseph Fried of Muszai recommending his brother R. Yaakov Yechezkia Grunwald for the Rabbinical position of Muszai $1,800.00
(Rabbi of Pupa, 1893-1984). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead to R. Yissachar Dov Goldstein of Jerusalem $700.00
(1862-1944). Autograph Postcard Signed in Hebrew to R. Ozer (Isidor) Fried $2,000.00
(Rebbetzin of Frysztak). Autograph Postcard Signed in Yiddish on personal letterhead, written to Rabbi H. Cohen of Montreal $1,500.00
Manuscript Document Signed in German, along with his official stamp in Hebrew and German $2,000.00
(“The Chofetz Chaim.”) Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on his personal letterhead $20,000.00
Typed Letter Signed in Hebrew on Beth Din letterhead, by R. Zelig Reuben Bengis, Rosh Beth Din; R. Pinchas Epstein; and R. David Halevi Jungreis, members of the Beth-Din of the Eidah HaChareidith of Jerusalem $900.00
(“The Chazon Ish.”). Autograph Letter Signed with the acronym "ISH," in Hebrew. Concerning distribution of his books and greetings for a holiday of contentment and enjoyment $3,000.00
KOTLER, AARON $700.00
(Weiser. 1809-1879). Autograph Legal Manuscript Signed in Hebrew, along with his stamp $3,000.00
Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew $35,000.00
(The “Chatham Sofer,” 1762-1839). Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew $20,000.00
(The “Kethav Sofer,” 1815-1871). Manuscript Document Signed in German. $1,500.00
(MahRa”M Schick, 1807-1879). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew $5,000.00
(Rabbi of the Eidah Charedith, Jerusalem. 1849-1932). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to Dr. Moshe Wallach of the Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital, Jerusalem. Along with original addressed and stamped personalized envelope $700.00
(“R. Chaim Brisker,” 1853-1918). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew with his stamp, to R. Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook of Jaffa $18,000.00
(of Munkacz, "the Minchath Elazar," 1872-1937). Typewritten Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead. With an additional line in middle of the letter in the Rebbe's hand. Written to the officers of Kollel Munkacz in Jerusalem. $2,000.00
(Grand Rabbi of Satmar, 1887-1979). Secretarial Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead, warmly written to Shalom ben Chaya-Sarah, with blessing for success in all endeavors $7,000.00
(Tchebiner Rav, 1881-1966). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead to Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin $1,000.00
Ben Porath Yoseph al Sefath Ivrith $1,500.00
Sepher HaZikaron HaZahav, Golden Book, Yeshivath Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch $7,000.00
Notarized Document acknowledging measure of wheat owed by Gentile seller to a Jewish businessman $1,500.00
Elaborate exceptional multi-colored Genealogical Tree relating to Families Mitzkon, Antokolsky, Cohen, Mileikovsky and Borozin $20,000.00
Rabbi Eliezer Silver. (President of the Agudath HaRabanim of America, 1882-1968). (Pinkas) Keren Hatzalah, Refugee Child Campaign, Agudath Israel, Keren HaTorah, Kosher Kitchen, Keren HaPo'alim, etc $3,000.00
Pinkas MiBeith Elo-him...Beith Ya'akov HaBanui LeTalpioth al Churvath R. Yehuda HaChassid $7,000.00
TZEMACH, JACOB. Adam Yashar [Lurianic Kabbalah] $1,500.00
Sepher Pizmonim [105 liturgical poems] $3,000.00
Miniature Prayer Book [collection of daily prayers, Selichoth, Hallel, Sephirath Ha-mer, Kiddush Levanah, etc.] $1,500.00
Tephilah LeShaliach Tzibur...Yamim Noraim [personal prayer for the Cantor on the High Holy Days]. $3,000.00
(medieval Hebrew fragments). $7,000.00
Teki'ath Shophar [Rite of Blowing the Ram's Horn] $6,000.00
(MISCELLANEOUS). $300.00
Talmudic novellae to Tractate Berachoth (until folio 24a) $1,200.00
(Dayan and Maggid of Shklov). (Moreh Tzedek -Kehillath Ya'akov). She'eloth U’Teshuvoth $12,000.00
"King Ahasuerus Cannot Sleep." Signed lower left and additionally signed and titled by the artist on the mat. Gouache on board. $4,000.00
Engraving, "It’s Time for the Evening Prayers. " Signed and titled in both English and Yiddish by the artist. $700.00
Engraving, Portrait of the writer Zalman Schneour. Signed and titled by the artist, additionally signed in Hebrew by Schneur. Numbered: “109/ 150.” $600.00
Night Scene of Palm Trees and Houses. Watercolor on Bonkingford paper, signed and dated by artist in ink lower left. Matted``. $900.00
Dusk in Safed. Watercolor on Bonkingford paper, signed and dated by artist in ink lower left. Matted. $900.00
Akiva Eger. Portrait engraving of this influential Rabbi and celebrated scholar (1761-1837). Half-length portrait. Full margins. Signed by the artist in pencil lower left and numbered “II / 3.” $1,500.00
Etching, Theodor Herzl. Three-quarter length portrait standing against chair-back and turned slightly to the right. Signed by artist in pencil lower left and noted “Probedruck I.” $500.00
*Self-portrait, smoking pipe. Engraving, signed below in pencil. AND: Portrait of Marc Chagall in profile, lithograph** $300.00
Hartmann Schedel. “Jerusalem.” Hand-colored woodcut by Michael Wohlgemuth and Hanns Pleydenwurff $900.00
*Two (of ?) double-page etchings: I. Illustrations to Psalm 150. II. Jacob Wrestling with the Angel. One of 13** $500.00
Engraving, "Prayer." Signed and titled by the artist and numbered: “42 / 100.” $700.00
Engraving, "Meditation." Signed and titled by the artist and numbered: “36 / 100.” $700.00
Large colored lithograph. Signed and numbered by the artist “144 / 150.” $300.00
Engraving: Morning Prayer in the Outdoors - Man Dressed in Talith and Tefillin. $500.00

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AUCTION 49

October 27, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

Fine Judaica:
Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts,
Autograph Letters
and Graphic Art
Sold at Auction
Wednesday, October 27th

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Product Title	AUCTION 49
Auction Date	Oct 26, 2010
Auction Time	1:00
Departments	Judaica
International Price	$0.00
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Short Description	Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art Sold at Auction Wednesday, October 27th Kestenbaum & Company successfully held its Fall auction of Fine Judaica on October 27th. Included in the nearly 380-lot sale were Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art. Particularly noteworthy were American-Judaica and Rare Books from the Library of Gratz College, Elkins Park (Part II) and Exceptional Rabbinic Autograph Letters from a Private Collector. Among the sale’s highlights were Early Hebrew Printed Books: A pristine copy of the first edition of Solomon ibn Adret’s responsa printed by Daniel Bomberg in 1519 realized $12,300 (lot 269); Nathan ben Yechiel of Rome’s Aruch Hakatzur, Constantinople, 1511, reached $9,225 against an estimate of $3,000-5,000 (lot 248) and Isaiah ben Abraham Halevi’s (SheLa”H HaKadosh) Shnei Luchoth HaBerith, Amsterdam, 1698, achieved $7,995 (lot 175). Further 16th century books of note were Soncino’s scarce Hebrew primer—Introductio ad litteras hebraicas, Pesaro, 1510, garnering $6,765 (lot 272); Abraham ibn Ezra’s book on Astrology—De Nativitatibus, Cologne, 1537, earning $1,845 (lot 47) and Estienne’s pocket Hebrew Bible, Paris, 1543-46, yielding $4,920 (lot 56). A later Bible generating interest was a Hebrew Pentateuch from Vienna, 1815, government-authorized for use in the Courts of Law of Prague to administer the Oath to Jewish witnesses, which earned $3,690 (lot 64). Top performers among Chassidic books were two texts relating to the Chabad movement, both written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi: Likutei Amarim (second edition), Zolkiew, 1799, attained $10,455 (lot 80) and Likutei Torah (first edition), Zhitomir, 1848-1851, was purchased for $3,998 (lot 83). Among liturgical books a Machzor, Amschel Mayer Rothschild’s personal copy, Roedelheim, 1800, brought in $4,613 (lot 258). Notable books relating to Germany were Wolf Ehrenfried von Reizenstein’s Der Vollkommenen Pferde-Kenners, (Volume II only) Uffenheim, 1764, a unique veterinary work with a Yiddish glossary, which earned $4,305 (lot 127) and Simon Wolff Brandes’ Bi’ur Sod Hanevu’ah which realized $2,768 (lot 125). Attracting attention in the Passover Hagadah section of the sale was a copy of the second Amsterdam Hagadah with a folding map of the Holy Land, 1712, which sold for $7,073 (lot 141). Also finding favor with buyers was the Toulouse Hagadah, produced from memory by a group of Jews interned in France during the Second World War, which brought in $8,610 (lot 154) and Beith Chorin, an attractive copy of the first illustrated Hagadah printed in France, 1767, which fetched $3,998 (lot 142). The American Judaica section of the sale featured distinctive selections such as a handwritten Hebrew Marriage Contract dated July 1861 from Peoria, Illinois, which was acquired for $14,760 (lot 21); Judah Monis’ Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, the first Hebrew Grammar published in the New World, Boston, 1735, which earned $11,070 (lot 7) and a volume of The Jew, edited by Solomon Henry Jackson, distinguished for being the first Jewish Periodical in America, New York, 1823-4, which realized $6,150 (lot 11). Books relating to the Land of Israel and Zionism included two significant editions of Theodor Herzl’s important manifesto, Der Judenstaat: The first Hebrew edition, Warsaw, 1896, garnered $3,383 (lot 285) and the first edition to be printed in America, New York, 1904, was purchased for $3,383 (lot 286). Also of interest was the first edition of the Zohar to be printed in Jerusalem, 1844-46, which sold for $3,690 (lot199). In the Art Books section, Joseph Tchaikov’s finely illustrated Yiddish book, Der Galaganer-Hon, Berlin, 1922, achieved $2,460 (lot 315) and Marc Chagall’s Yiddish Language Art Periodical, Chaliastra, Paris, 1924, brought in $1,476 (lot 295). Highlighting the Manuscripts Section of the sale was an extensive book of prayers according to the meditations of Rabbi Isaac Luria, 1732-38, which attained $24,600 (lot 352). Also commanding high prices were Moreh Tzedek, a scholarly manuscript penned in the 18th century by the Sha’agath Aryeh’s first cousin, which earned $15,990 (lot 362); a collection of Hebrew medieval manuscript fragments, which was purchased for $11,070 against an estimate of $5,000-7,000 (lot 357) and a Pinkas from the historic Churvah Synagogue, Jerusalem, 1889-96, which brought in $20,910, nearly tripling its estimate of $5,000-7,000 (lot 351). The Autograph Letters section of the sale was particularly impressive and buyers eagerly responded to the opportunity to own written communications by some of the most important and influential Rabbinic authorities of the 19th and 20th centuries. Selling particularly well were letters by Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin (the Chofetz Chaim), reaching $33,210 against an estimate of $15,000-20,000 (lot 332); Reb Chaim Soloveitchik, yielding $20,910 against an estimate of $12,000-18,000 (lot 342); Moses Sofer (the Chatham Sofer) earning $18,450 (lot 338); Meir Leibush Malbim achieving $9,840 against an estimate of $2,000-3,000 (lot 326) and Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (the Chazon Ish), attaining $3,383 (lot 334). Kestenbaum & Company’s forthcoming auction of Fine Judaica will take place in early Winter 2011. The sale will feature Iberian-Judaica: The Distinguished Library of the late Alfonso Cassuto of Lisbon.

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