Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Maimonides – copy of Rabbi Shlomo Gantzfried author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

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Sold for: $450
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Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Part Three. Feurda, [1765].
Ownership inscription, various motes and signatures. – On the leaf before the title-page and on the back leaf, there are inscriptions indicating that the book belonged to Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, dayan of Ungvar [author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch]. Probably, some of the notes on the first and last pages are also in his handwriting.
Inscription on title-page signed by Chanina Yichya Teitelbaum of Ohel, saying that the book belongs to Rabbi Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Hirshenshtein. On the leaf before the title-page, it says that book belonged to Rabbi Binyamin Rotte, gven to him by his father-in-law Rabbi Yechiel Michel Hirshenstein, Rabbi of ---dorf. [Hirshenstein was the name of a family of rabbis in Hungary, from among whom the most famous was Rabbi Yekutiel Hirshenstein, disciple of the Chatam Sofer].
[1], 221; 142, 141-144, 144-166 leaves. 34 cm. Fair condition, stains, worn by usage and slight moth damages. New binding.
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