Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Rosh HaShanah, with the Rashi and Tosafot commentaries, Rosh, Rambam's commentary on the Mishnayot, Chiddushei Halachot by the Maharsha and R. Yeshaya Berlin's glosses. Slavita: R. Moshe Shapira Rabbi of Slavita, [1821].
Small format edition (for travel); each leaf corresponds with one page of the regular Talmud editions. The Maharsha is printed in the margins. Title page printed in red and black.
In that period, only a few tractates were printed in small format, not a complete Talmud set.
[69], 74-88 leaves. 21.5 cm. Bluish paper. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Wear. Tears and worming to title page and other leaves, affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Large open tear to lower part of title page, slightly affecting chronogram, repaired with paper. Stamps. New binding.
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Babylonian Talmud, Tractates Arachin, Temurah, Keritot, Me'ilah, Kinnim, Tamid and Middot. Slavita: R. Moshe Shapira, 1821. One volume. Divisional title pages for tractates Arachin, Temurah, Keritot and Me'ilah.
This volume was originally published together with Tractate Bechorot. The present copy does not include Tractate Bechorot, and it begins with Tractate Arachin.
37; 35; 30; 42, [2] leaves. 33.5 cm. Bluish paper. Fair-poor condition. Stains, including dampstains. Extensive worming, affecting text. First title page detached. Marginal tears to first title page and several other leaves. Inscriptions and stamp. Old binding, detached, with worming.
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Shaarei Tzion, prayers and tikkunim, by R. Natan Nata Hanover, with Tikkun Seudah and Sefer Yetzirah. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira son of the rabbi of Slavita, [1824].
[1], 3-132 leaves. Lacking leaf 2. 14 cm. Condition varies, first 50 leaves in fair-poor condition, other leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Dark, significant stains to leaves at the beginning of volume. Extensive wear. Title page detached. Open tears to title page and following leaves, affecting text, repaired with tape. Worming, affecting text. Pen inscriptions. Old binding, worn.
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Chiddushei HaRitva on Tractate Yevamot. Sudylkiv: Yitzchak Madpis [and R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira], 1833.
The title page states that the book was printed in Sudylkiv by Yitzchak Madpis, yet one of the approbations is addressed to R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira, the famous printer of Slavita, presumably indicating that the book was printed in Slavita.
[2], 56 leaves. 34.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and creases. Extensive worming, affecting text. Marginal open tears to title page (not affecting border), and to several other leaves. Title page and first leaves somewhat detached. Handwritten inscriptions. Without binding.
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Machzor for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and the Three Festivals, following the rite of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Lithuania, and Belarus (Ashkenazi rite). Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1857.
[2], 182 leaves. Approx. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of past dampness. Wear. Minor worming, slightly affecting text. Tears, including open tears affecting text, repaired with paper. Significant worming and open tears to two leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper (leaves presumably provided from a different copy). Marginal paper repairs to second title page and other leaves. Inscriptions. New leather binding.
Rare edition, not listed in the NLI catalog. Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a copy offered at auction.
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Zohar, Part I on the Book of Bereshit. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1863.
Signature on title page.
[4], 251; 17 leaves. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Marginal open tears to title page and other leaves. Worming. Leather binding, with worming and defects.
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