Dueren, Isaac ben Meir. Sha’arei Dura. Appended anonymous Chidushei Agadoth. Title within architectural columns. ff. (3), 66, 8. (ff. 3 of introduction bound out of order between ff. 4 and 5.) ff. 2-3 loose. Final 4 leaves taped. Browned. Calf backed marbled boards. Spine distressed. [Vinograd, Jessnitz, 33]. On title, signature of owner “Gershon Koblenz Mazia.” Koblenz was a disciple of R. Jacob Reisher, author of Responsa Shevuth Yaakov. See Shevuth Yaakov, responsum no. 45 to Koblenz. Koblenz himself authored a volume of responsa, Kiryath Hannah printed in Metz, 1785. Jessnitz: Israel b. Abraham, 1724.
*Prayer-book . FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Yiddish in waybertaytsch letters. Title within floral arrangement topped by crown. Divisional title for Psalms and Ma’amadoth. ff. 121, 32, 100, 28, 46, 40, (2), 48, 34. Calf boards in pieces. 8vo. [Vinograd, Metz 12. Collation differs slightly from Vinograd]. Owner’s signature on title, “”Elijah Grumbach, Metz, 1770.” (Metz: Moses May, 1765).
*Zacuto, Moses and Olemo, Jacob Daniel. Tophteh Aruch ve-Eden Aruch. Yiddish translation in waybertaytsch letters. ff.28. Modern boards. 8vo. [Vinograd, Metz 40, 42]. Apparently inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, this is Zacuto’s dramatic poem on the affliction of the soul in Purgatory. (Metz, 1766).
*Segal, Israel Isserl ben Isaac. Aseifath Chachamim [pilpul on the Pentateuch by contemporary scholars including his teacher R. Abraham Broda]. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arches. ff. (2), 1-48, 53-64. Stained. Contemporary vellum with cartouche in center. Hinges missing. [Vinograd, Offenbach 55, 66]. Offenbach: Bonaventura de la Nei, 1722
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