Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Collection of Books – Printed in the Early 1700s – Distinguished Copies with Signatures and Glosses
Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
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Four books printed in the 1700s, some distinguished copies, with handwritten signatures and glosses:
• Levush HaTechelet, on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, by R. Mordechai Yaffe; with Eliyah Zuta, by R. Eliyahu Spira, Rabbi of Tiktin. Prague, 1701. Inscriptions on title page, including: "Consecrated to Beit Midrash HaMagen" [apparently the Beit Yaakov Beit Midrash in Jerusalem, headed by HaRav HaMagen]; "… Mr. Shemaiah Angel". Several handwritten glosses.
• Novellae of R. Aharon HaLevi (the Raah), on Tractate Ketubot. Prague, [1722]. First edition. On title page: "G-d granted me this book, B. Wolf" – signature of R. Binyamin Wolf Löw (1777-1851), author of Shaarei Torah, Rabbi of Werbau, Hungary (present-day Vrbové, Slovakia). He was the son of R. Elazar Löw, author of Maaseh Rokeach (1758-1837). He had previously served as Rabbi of several towns in Poland, Bohemia and Hungary. A renowned Torah scholar and a prominent Torah leader in the generation of the Chatam Sofer and R. Akiva Eger. Many foremost Torah leaders were his disciples, including the Machaneh Chaim and the Kol Aryeh. He left behind works in all fields of the Torah, which were published in his renowned series Shaarei Torah.
• Beit Lechem Yehudah, topical index to aggadic passages in the Talmud by R. Yehudah Aryeh of Modena. [Prague, 1705]. Second edition. Deleted ownership inscriptions on title page.
• Geon Tzvi, halachic novellae on Tractates Yevamot, Ketubot, Kidushin, Bava Kama, Bava Metzia and Chullin by R. Tzvi Hirsch Horowitz. Prague-[Wilhermsdorf], [1737-1738]. First edition.
4 books. Size and condition varies, good-fair to fair. Stains, including dampstains. Worming. Tears. Old bindings.