Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $150
Sold for: $213
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"This is the book of Megillat Esther", "in Hebrew with translation". Bombay, [1864].
Lithograph print. Megillat Esther with translation into Jewish-Arabic in square letters. Further on in the book, the "story of Megillat Esther" (with a special title page), Jewish-Arabic in Sefardi handwriting.
64, 72 pages. 16 cm. Fair condition, stains, moth damage [sometimes damage to text, some professionally restored]. Stamps. New binding.
Lithograph print. Megillat Esther with translation into Jewish-Arabic in square letters. Further on in the book, the "story of Megillat Esther" (with a special title page), Jewish-Arabic in Sefardi handwriting.
64, 72 pages. 16 cm. Fair condition, stains, moth damage [sometimes damage to text, some professionally restored]. Stamps. New binding.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $150
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Two leaves with passages from Yom Kippur prayers. Bombay.
Poems recited in the Kol Nidre prayer, and in Musaf service of Yom Kippur. Printed and stenciled with titles in English. One leaf contains Shana Tova greetings, signed in print: “Mr M. A. Phansapurka”. On the second leaf: “Jewish Youth Association, Bombay, India”.
[2] leaves. Approx. 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Folding marks and minor tears.
Poems recited in the Kol Nidre prayer, and in Musaf service of Yom Kippur. Printed and stenciled with titles in English. One leaf contains Shana Tova greetings, signed in print: “Mr M. A. Phansapurka”. On the second leaf: “Jewish Youth Association, Bombay, India”.
[2] leaves. Approx. 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Folding marks and minor tears.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $220
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Collection of booklets and printed items from Bombay (India).
Booklets printed between the years (1862-1866), [in the Marathi language, titles in Hebrew / English]: “Circumcision and Redemption of Firstborn Son”; “The Jewish Marriage Ceremony”; Antiochus Scroll”; “Songs for Simchat Torah” [Hebrew and Marathi]; Description of Death of Moses, with illustrations.
Attached: Booklet in lithograph printing containing Hebrew-Marathi dictionary of words from Megillat Ruth (defective); cut pages from issues of the newspaper of the Jewish congregation in India, The Hebrew Gazett, which was printed in lithograph printing.
Total of 7 items. Various sizes and conditions.
Booklets printed between the years (1862-1866), [in the Marathi language, titles in Hebrew / English]: “Circumcision and Redemption of Firstborn Son”; “The Jewish Marriage Ceremony”; Antiochus Scroll”; “Songs for Simchat Torah” [Hebrew and Marathi]; Description of Death of Moses, with illustrations.
Attached: Booklet in lithograph printing containing Hebrew-Marathi dictionary of words from Megillat Ruth (defective); cut pages from issues of the newspaper of the Jewish congregation in India, The Hebrew Gazett, which was printed in lithograph printing.
Total of 7 items. Various sizes and conditions.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $325
Including buyer's premium
1. Tefila Le-Yom Kippur, Vol. 1. Bombay, 1867. Marâthî and a little Hebrew. Includes an English title page. Bibliographically unknown.
2. Exodus – Sefer Shemot. Bombay, [printig place and year of print are in Marâthî].
3. Torah, Torat Hashem Be-Yad-Moshe. [India, printed only in Marâthî].
4-5. Two additional books printed in India, written solely in Marâthî.
Varying sizes and conditions.
2. Exodus – Sefer Shemot. Bombay, [printig place and year of print are in Marâthî].
3. Torah, Torat Hashem Be-Yad-Moshe. [India, printed only in Marâthî].
4-5. Two additional books printed in India, written solely in Marâthî.
Varying sizes and conditions.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
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Sold for: $575
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1-2. Pizmonim L'Yamim Rosh Hashana U'LeYom Kippur, collected by Rabbi Yechezkel Shmuel Telcher and Eliya Shalom Valotcher. Puna, [1870]. Lithographic printing. Two copies: one bound from right to left and the other from left to right. (Stamps of the synagogue of Ahmadabad).
3. Te'udat Yisrael (Parts 1-5), [Puna, 1874]. A collection of various blessings and prayers according to the Sephardic custom. The title page, instructions and explanations are in Marathi.
4. Selichot for early mornings of Chodesh Elul. Puna, [1874]. Hebrew and Marathi, with additional section in Marathi and a little English.
5. Kinot Siman Neviah and Haftara L'Tisha B'Av with Arabic translation. Bombay, 1889.
6. Machzor Zichron L'Tova. Bombay, 1899.
7. Seder Techinat Ya'akov V'Seder Vidui HaGadol, according to the custom of… Baghdad, with English translation [page facing page]. Bombay, 1907.
8. "Acheinu HaYekarim! Due to the severe situation… we request… [to say] these psukim whose initials are Yerushalayim Yisrael Kra Satan". Bombay, [c. 1948]. Apparently printed during the War of Independence.
Varied size and condition. Some were printed on brittle acidy paper.
3. Te'udat Yisrael (Parts 1-5), [Puna, 1874]. A collection of various blessings and prayers according to the Sephardic custom. The title page, instructions and explanations are in Marathi.
4. Selichot for early mornings of Chodesh Elul. Puna, [1874]. Hebrew and Marathi, with additional section in Marathi and a little English.
5. Kinot Siman Neviah and Haftara L'Tisha B'Av with Arabic translation. Bombay, 1889.
6. Machzor Zichron L'Tova. Bombay, 1899.
7. Seder Techinat Ya'akov V'Seder Vidui HaGadol, according to the custom of… Baghdad, with English translation [page facing page]. Bombay, 1907.
8. "Acheinu HaYekarim! Due to the severe situation… we request… [to say] these psukim whose initials are Yerushalayim Yisrael Kra Satan". Bombay, [c. 1948]. Apparently printed during the War of Independence.
Varied size and condition. Some were printed on brittle acidy paper.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $120
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Volume including three books stereotypically printed in Shanghai (China) in 1946 by Shlomo Yosef Meizlish. Those three books are bibliographically unknown under these editions:
1. Sefer Chasidim by Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Chasid, with commentaries. (Apparently stereotyped from the 1879 Warsaw edition, based on the 1875 Lemberg edition).
2. Midrash Shmuel, a Pirkei Avot interpretation, by Rabbi Shmuel De Uzeda. (Apparently stereotyped from the 1876 Warsaw edition).
3. Masechet Avot, with the commentary of Rabbi Yosef Ya'abetz Ha-Doresh. (Apparently stereotyped from a part of the 1880 Warsaw edition). Owner’s signature by Rabbi “Reuven Melamed”, [student at the Shanghai Mir Yeshiva, teacher and Mashgiach at the Ponevezh Yeshiva of Bnei Brak, among the leading Musar figures of the last generation]. Handwritten remarks appear on leaf 34 of Masechet Avot.
22 cm. Good condition, stains, tears on the leaves’ edges. Acidic, fragile paper.
1. Sefer Chasidim by Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Chasid, with commentaries. (Apparently stereotyped from the 1879 Warsaw edition, based on the 1875 Lemberg edition).
2. Midrash Shmuel, a Pirkei Avot interpretation, by Rabbi Shmuel De Uzeda. (Apparently stereotyped from the 1876 Warsaw edition).
3. Masechet Avot, with the commentary of Rabbi Yosef Ya'abetz Ha-Doresh. (Apparently stereotyped from a part of the 1880 Warsaw edition). Owner’s signature by Rabbi “Reuven Melamed”, [student at the Shanghai Mir Yeshiva, teacher and Mashgiach at the Ponevezh Yeshiva of Bnei Brak, among the leading Musar figures of the last generation]. Handwritten remarks appear on leaf 34 of Masechet Avot.
22 cm. Good condition, stains, tears on the leaves’ edges. Acidic, fragile paper.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
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Sold for: $125
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Divrei Emet on the Torah by Rabbi Ya’akov Yitzchak Horowitz “the Seer of Lublin”. Shanghai, 1947. Published by the “Mefitzei Or” printing committee of the “Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin - China” students. 113 pages. 25 cm. Good condition, light moth holes on the original binding. Bibliographically unknown.
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Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 2, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $150
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Rashba Responsa, and last pamphlet by the Rashba on Yevamot tractate, includes: Kovetz He’arot [collection of comments] on Yevamot tractate, by Rabbi Elchanan Bunim Wasserman. Shanghai, [1945].
Stereotype printing of the 1936 Vilna Edition. Printed by a group of Baranovitch Yeshiva alumni who studied in the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai.
[2], 3-54; [2], 152 pages. 25 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves. Signs of wear and few stains. Worn and detached binding.
Stereotype printing of the 1936 Vilna Edition. Printed by a group of Baranovitch Yeshiva alumni who studied in the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai.
[2], 3-54; [2], 152 pages. 25 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves. Signs of wear and few stains. Worn and detached binding.
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