A varied miscellany of manuscripts, documents, letters and ephemera. Scholarly, communal, political, etc. All in Hebrew and Yiddish.
AUCTION 60 |
Thursday, November 14th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 336
(MANUSCRIPTS).
A varied miscellany of manuscripts, documents, letters and ephemera. Scholarly, communal, political, etc. All in Hebrew and Yiddish.
v.p: 18th - 20th centuries
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,300
Should be seen. A wide variety of materials. From the collection of a scholarly collector.
Manuscript material includes: A catalogue of the library of Nachum Sokolow; Takanoth Nikolsburg, Ginzei Nistaroth (copy of manuscript originally written in Safed, 1585 copied in 1860); copy of work Kether Torah sent by David Frankel to Moses Lutsky; letter written to Solomon Plesner, 1841; letter written to R. Samuel Heller (1863); Hamitpah, Cracow, 1914 no 28; copy of Maaseh Ta’atuim (polemic against R. Nathan Adler of Frankfurt); Anti-Chassidic tract including copy of Cherem against Chassidim issued in Vilna, Brody and Cracow. Printed material includes: Hanachah Histadruth HaZionith Odoth Eretz Yisrael, 1919 (Draft of Zionist position on establishment of Jewish homeland); Receipt of payment for volumes of Metz Shas, 1773; Title page of first edition Siddur R. Yaakov Emden, etc.