Mekabetz Nidchei Yisrael [Haphtaroth according to Karaite custom and other occasional prayers]. Including Sephirath Ha’omer, Chazanuth Le’shavuoth, Melitzath Ha’mitzvoth and the Azharoth. With commentary Inyan Tephilah by Elijah Bashe’itzi

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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Lot 17

(KARAITICA)

Mekabetz Nidchei Yisrael [Haphtaroth according to Karaite custom and other occasional prayers]. Including Sephirath Ha’omer, Chazanuth Le’shavuoth, Melitzath Ha’mitzvoth and the Azharoth. With commentary Inyan Tephilah by Elijah Bashe’itzi

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Selichoth with translation into Tatarian in Hebrew characters ff. (1),40;76. Lacking lower half of f.16; f.17 mutilated retaining only small fragment of four lines of text . Stained in places, few paper repairs not affecting text. Modern blind-tooled tan morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Kale 1; Mehlman 1834;

Kale (Crimea): Aphda and Sabbathai sons of Abraham Jerakah and Menachem Zadik Yerushalmi 1734

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN THE CRIMEA Most all copies lack the Azharoth (here, present). See S. Pozanski, Karäische Drucke und Druckereien, in ZfHB, vol. XXI (Frankfurt a/M, 1918), no. 7, pp. 39-40