Auction 95 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Letters and Manuscripts, Engravings and Jewish Ceremonial Objects
Machzor according to the Sephardic rite, for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, fast days and year-round prayer. London: Alexander son of Yehudah Leib and W. J. Richardson, [1771-1776]. Hebrew with English translation. Five volumes.
Five of six volumes, without fifth part with prayers for Pesach and Shavuot. Hebrew with English translation, on facing pages.
First translation of the Sephardic rite into English. Translated by the printer R. Alexander son of Yehudah Leib.
Some of the words on the title page of the year-round prayer volume are printed in red ink.
In the Rosh Hashanah volume is an English dedication, next to a Hebrew inscription.
Five volumes. Part I (Rosh Hashanah): [2], 129, [1] leaves; Part II (Yom Kippur): 28, 33-68, 73-84, 89-196, 201-240, 245-275 leaves. Missing 20 leaves: 29-32, 69-72, 85-88, 197-200, 241-244; Part IV (Sukkot): [2], 237, [2] leaves. Part VI (fast days): 209, [1] leaves, missing title page in English; year-round prayer: [2], 187, 192-195, 197-205, [7] pages. Missing pages: 188-191. 18.5-19.5 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and open tears affecting text to one volume. Open tears to several additional places (including title page of one volume), partially repaired with paper and paper filling. One volume severed in the middle. Non-uniform bindings (most early leather bindings of various kinds, and one volume in new binding). Wear, tears and damage to bindings.
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Year-round prayer according to the Polish rite. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1819. Bound with: Book of Tehillim arranged according to the days of the week, with a Yiddish commentary and Techinot (supplications). Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1822-1823.
Divisional title pages for Tehillim and Techinot.
Woman's Siddur in elegant leather binding, with gilt decorations and silver clasps – fully marked, with marks for Amsterdam (lion in a diamond), the year (P with a circle – 1849) and the maker (AL and 20 in a square – Lanzonder, Adrianus Hoolbos). Original colorful endpaper.
On the front binding is an inscription of the woman's name: "Nena wife of Avraham of Emden".
On the front endpaper are inscriptions of births in the woman's handwriting (inscriptions on three daughters born to her in 1851, 1854 and 1857; one inscription from 1851 deleted on the birth of a son who apparently later died).
The Siddur includes a handwritten leaf with a prayer for a birthing mother mentioning the woman's name: "Nena born to Chanah".
[1], 243; 64-135, [1]; 36 leaves. Tehillim and Techinot: 144 leaves. Missing 92 leaves from the second sequence in the Siddur. In their place are bound leaves 64-135, [1], evidently from another edition. 20.5 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good-fair condition, about 30 of the last leaves in fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness, with mold stains to last tens of leaves. Wear. Tears in several places. Early leather binding, with clasps. Much wear and damage to binding, tears across the binding (remains of paper stuck to back side of binding).
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Year-round Siddur according to the Ashkenazic and Polish rite, with the Book of Tehillim, and Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah, including kabbalistic prayers, songs and confessions by R. Naftali Katz, Rabbi of Frankfurt, author of Semichat Chachamim. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe son of Alexander Ziskind of Emden, [1741]. First edition.
First edition of Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah by R. Naftali Katz, which was later printed several times independently and as part of other Siddur editions.
Divisional title page for Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah and Book of Tehillim.
Simple commentary in bottom margins.
All three parts in one volume. Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah (bound at the beginning of the book): 16 leaves. Siddur: 115, 118-163, 166-400 leaves. Tehillim: 90 leaves. Missing 10 leaves: [6] first leaves of the Siddur (including title page), and leaves 116-117, 164-165. Leaf 241 bound out of sequence after leaf 247, and leaf 248 bound out of sequence after leaf 256. 16.5 cm. Most leaves of the Siddur in fair-good condition, Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah and first leaves of Siddur in fair condition. Many stains, including dark dampstains. Wear to some leaves. Worming. Tears, including open tears affecting text. Detached leaves and gatherings (including title page of Beit Rachel). Margins of several leaves repaired with paper. Close trimming, affecting text. Early leather binding, worn, with damage and tears.
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Tefillah LeMoshe siddur, year-round prayers according to the Sephardic-Chassidic rite, with the kabbalistic Tefillah LeMoshe commentary by R. Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak). Includes Or HaYashar – ethical and Chassidic conduct according to kabbalah, by R. Meir Poppers, and Derech HaChaim on the laws of prayer by R. Yaakov of Lissa. Premishla (Przemyśl): Zupnik, Knoller and Hammerschmidt, 1892. First edition. Two parts in one volume.
Copy of R. Yehudah Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Beclean, with his stamps in Hebrew and Latin script: "Yehudah Lichtenstein – Rabbi of Bethlen and the region – Beclean".
This Siddur was later handed down to another family member, who writes that he received it as a wedding gift from his brother-in-law R. Moshe Aryeh Gottesman who had received it from the writer's father. On the back endpaper are records of births.
R. Yehudah Lichtenstein (1855-1921), son and successor of R. Yaakov Koppel Lichtenstein Rabbi of Beclean (brother of R. Hillel Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Kolomyia), served as Rabbi of Beclean and headed an important yeshiva that at times numbered over a hundred students.
The present book contains 19 approbations from the leading Chassidic masters of the time, including Rebbe Yehoshua of Belz, Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov and Rebbe Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz, extolling the virtues of this siddur and assuring that it will bring blessing into the home. Rebbe Uri of Sambor writes: "Whoever purchases the holy siddur will be blessed with sons, life and abundant sustenance, and it will serve as a protection for his home".
[6]; [3], 2-24; [1], 2-189, [4], 190-286 leaves; [2], 289-432 leaves; 8 leaves; 4, [1], 5-48, [3] leaves. 22.5 cm. Dark, dry paper. Overall fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and wear. Tears, including open tears, affecting large portions of text on six leaves: first title page, leaf [2] (repaired with paper filling and text replacement), and several leaves in the book. Original leather binding, with new spine.
[4] leaves with Shir HaShirim, bound in the present copy between leaves 189-190, are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book nor in the National Library of Israel (though they do appear in the Chabad Library copy digitized on HebrewBooks).
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Year-round siddur following the Sephardic rite, with the Olat Tamid commentary by R. Natan Nata of Shinova, author of Kishutei Kallah, and with the Arugat HaBosem commentary on Shir HaShirim by R. Moshe Ostrer. Przemyśl: Ettel Amkraut, printed by Zupnik, Knoller & Wolf, 1896.
In his approbation, R. Avraham, Rabbi of Kriftch (Krzywcza) writes: "I am confident that the prayer of whoever prays from the siddur printed with his holy commentaries will not go unanswered”.
64 leaves with a divisional title page: Arugat HaBosem, commentary on Shir HaShirim by R. Moshe Ostrer, with commentary Pri Megadim, an abridgement of the Shoshanat HaAmakim commentary by R. Moshe Alshich.
Stamp of R. Simchah Natan Segal of Safed, an emissary of the Rebbe of Shinova to the Sanz Beit Midrash in Safed.
[4], 31, 33-90; 64; 66; 78 leaves. Approx. 23 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Heavy wear to some leaves. Tears, including open tears affecting text (many large open tears to several leaves), repaired with paper in several places. Several leaves disconnected. New binding.
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Siddur Chemdat Yisrael, with the Arizal's kavanot. Munkacs: published by Shmuel Zanvil Kahana, in the Kohn & Klein press, 1901.
In his approbation, the Imrei Yosef of Spinka assures whoever purchases this siddur that it will protect his home from all illness, and bring an abundance of blessing and success, children, life and easy sustenance.
Handwritten inscription on title page by R. Efraim Asher HaLevi Rottenberg (rabbi of Ner Yisrael community in Los Angeles).
[4], 280 leaves. 22 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears to margins of title page (slightly affecting text on the reverse side of the leaf), and additional leaves. New binding.
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