Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Assorted Collection of Books – Printed in Amsterdam – 1700s
Opening: $300
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Assorted collection of books concerned with various subjects, printed in Amsterdam in the 1700s, most in first editions:
• Menorat HaMaor by R. Yitzchak Aboab, with Nefesh Yehudah commentary by R. Moshe Frankfurt. Amsterdam, 1700. First edition of the commentary. Several leaves lacking. Signature on title page.
• Leket HaKemach, digest of responsa and halachic rulings according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch, Parts I-II, by R. Moshe Chagiz. Amsterdam, [1707]. First edition of these parts. Original parchment binding. Ex libris label of the scholar Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz. Stamp of R. Yaakov Eskolsky (1875-1931), Rabbi of Kazhan-Haradok, Russia (now Belarus) and later Scranton, Pennsylvania and the Slutsk and Bialystok communities in New York. Editor of HaMitzpah periodical.
• Kavanot HaAgadot – Kaftor VaFerach, by R. Yaakov Luzzatto. Amsterdam, [1709]. Second edition. On title page, stamp of Reshit Chochmah society, Amsterdam.
• Divrei David, responsa by R. David Meldola, including responsa by R. Aryeh Leib, Rabbi of Amsterdam, son-in-law of the Chacham Tzvi. Amsterdam, [1753]. First edition. Includes notable approbation by the Pnei Yehoshua. Signature on title page: "Gavriel Ashkenazi" (perhaps R. Gavriel Ashkenazi, rabbi and dayan in Aleppo in the latter half of the 18th century).
• Darchei HaGemara, by R. Yitzchak Canpanton. With Hanhagat VeLimud HaTalmidim and Darchei Yesod HaLimud by R. David Meldola. Amsterdam, [1754]. First editions of the books by R. David Meldola. Gloss on one leaf in first book.
• Bigdei Yesha, commentary on the Mordechai and Talmudic novellae – Seder Moed, by R. Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz (the Shlah). Amsterdam, [1757]. First edition. Notable printed advertisement on last leaf.
• Minchat Ani and Minchat Kohen, Talmudic novellae relating to the Torah portions by R. Yitzchak Zelig Mann. Amsterdam, [1769]. Only edition, rare. Ownership inscriptions on both sides of leaf 2.
7 books. Size and condition Varies. Good to fair condition. Stains. Tears. Worming to several books. Old bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.
Illustrated books Modernism, Avantgarde
Illustrated books Modernism, Avantgarde 