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Lot 41 Esther Scroll – HaMelech, With Serif Decorations – 19th Century

Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. mid-19th century]. Ink on parchment. Esther scroll, written in neat Ashkenazi
Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. mid-19th century]. Ink on parchment. Esther scroll, written in neat Ashkenazi
Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. mid-19th century]. Ink on parchment. Esther scroll, written in neat Ashkenazi
Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. mid-19th century]. Ink on parchment. Esther scroll, written in neat Ashkenazi
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Esther Scroll – HaMelech, With Serif Decorations – 19th Century Esther Scroll – HaMelech, With Serif Decorations – 19th Century Esther Scroll – HaMelech, With Serif Decorations – 19th Century Esther Scroll – HaMelech, With Serif Decorations – 19th Century
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Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. mid-19th century].


Ink on parchment.


Esther scroll, written in neat Ashkenazic Stam script (Beit Yosef), with serifs (Tagim). Large serif decorations at top of some columns as well as within the lines of text. 10 columns (over 3 membranes), 42 lines per column.
"HaMelech" Esther scroll (most columns headed with the word "HaMelech").


Approx. 51 cm. Fair condition. Stains, heavy wear, creases and tears, affecting text. Fading of ink and letters erased in many places. In first membrane: open tears. Placed in an old metal case, damaged and warped, with small air holes.

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Lot 42 Esther Scroll – Ca. 19th Century

Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. 19th century]. Ink on parchment. Esther scroll, written in Ashkenazic Stam sc
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Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. 19th century].


Ink on parchment.


Esther scroll, written in Ashkenazic Stam script, in neat Beit Yosef script, with serifs (Tagim). 11 columns (covering 3 membranes), 42 lines per column.


Approx. 47 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Fading of ink in several places. On first membrane: tears (some repaired with paper). Another small blank membrane at end of scroll.

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Lot 43 Large-Format Esther Scroll – Arizal-Chassidic Script – Ca. 19th/20th Century

Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. late 19th to early 20th century]. Large-format scroll. Ink on parchment. La
Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. late 19th to early 20th century]. Large-format scroll. Ink on parchment. La
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Large-Format Esther Scroll – Arizal-Chassidic Script – Ca. 19th/20th Century Large-Format Esther Scroll – Arizal-Chassidic Script – Ca. 19th/20th Century
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Esther scroll. [Europe?, ca. late 19th to early 20th century].

Large-format scroll.

Ink on parchment. Large Format (68 cm).
Esther scroll, written in Ashkenazic Arizal-Chassidic Stam script, with few serifs (Tagim). 8 columns (covering 3 membranes), 52 lines per column.

Approx. 68 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Ink fading in several places. In first membrane, open tears, affecting text (repaired with tape and parchment). Small holes and tears in several places (with halachically mandated patches).
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Lot 44 "HaMelekh" Esther Scroll in Miniature Format – Mid-20th Century

Esther scroll. Palestine/Israel, [ca. mid-20th century]. Ink on parchment; sheet iron, shaped and soldered.
Esther scroll. Palestine/Israel, [ca. mid-20th century]. Ink on parchment; sheet iron, shaped and soldered.
Esther scroll. Palestine/Israel, [ca. mid-20th century]. Ink on parchment; sheet iron, shaped and soldered.
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Esther scroll. Palestine/Israel, [ca. mid-20th century].

Ink on parchment; sheet iron, shaped and soldered.

in miniature format (3 cm.), written on 5 sheets of parchment, consisting of 24 columns of text, 14 rows per column. Most of the text – with the exception of the first and last sheets – with "tagim" (decorative "crownlets") over designated letters. The first and last sheets were exchanged with newer sheets that lack these "tagim."
"HaMelech" Esther scroll (most columns headed with the word "HaMelech").
The scroll is housed in an appropriately-sized cylindrical case, a product of folk art, fashioned out of shaped iron sheet. The case has a small handle and removable lid.

Height of vellum sheets: approx. 3 cm. Height of case: 8.5 cm. Overall good condition. Original first and last sheets of vellum scroll replaced with newer sheets. Lid of case probably not original. Interior of case padded with lining.
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Lot 45 "HaMelekh" Esther Scroll in Olivewood Case – Israel

Esther scroll. Israel, [ca. mid-20th century]. Ink on vellum; wood, lathed and carved. Written on thick sheets of parchment,
Esther scroll. Israel, [ca. mid-20th century]. Ink on vellum; wood, lathed and carved. Written on thick sheets of parchment,
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Esther scroll. Israel, [ca. mid-20th century].

Ink on vellum; wood, lathed and carved.

Written on thick sheets of parchment, and housed in cylindrical olivewood case bearing a carved pattern representing the Western Wall and Rachel’s Tomb.
"HaMelech" Esther scroll (most columns headed with the word "HaMelech").

Height of vellum sheets: approx. 10 cm. Height of case: 32 cm. Good condition.

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Lot 46 Tikun Sofrim with Haftarot – Amsterdam, 1726 – Illustrated Title Pages, With Engravings by Bernard Picart – Fine Copy

Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and Haftarot. Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gome
Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and Haftarot. Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gome
Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and Haftarot. Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gome
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Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and Haftarot. Amsterdam: for Samuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moses Sarfati and David Gomes da Silva, 1726.

Title pages illustrated with copper engravings by Bernard Picart. Divisional title page for Haftarot. Includes table of Torah readings for the festivals, and tables in Spanish (folding leaves), with divisional title page in Hebrew and Spanish.
After the Haftarot section are bound leaves which usually appear at the beginning of the volume: poems in praise of the edition, cantillation, a chart for the festival readings, corrections by the proofreader, and more. Two leaves missing, with approbation and chart of double Torah portions.
Stamps of "Saadat Bachurim" society (Amsterdam).

[3], 3-327, [2], 329-446, [10] leaves; 9-16 pages; [3] folding leaves with charts, [2] leaves. [6] leaves originally bound at the beginning of the book are bound after the Haftarot section. Missing [2] leaves at the beginning of the book. 17 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Small tears and creases to a few leaves. Old binding, with leather spine. Light wear and light damage to binding.
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Lot 47 Tikun Sofrim with English Translation – London, 1787 – Six-Volume Set

Tikun Sofrim, in Vavei HaAmudim format, with Or Torah glosses, and English translation and notes. "The... Book of Mos
Tikun Sofrim, in Vavei HaAmudim format, with Or Torah glosses, and English translation and notes. "The... Book of Mos
Tikun Sofrim, in Vavei HaAmudim format, with Or Torah glosses, and English translation and notes. "The... Book of Mos
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Tikun Sofrim, in Vavei HaAmudim format, with Or Torah glosses, and English translation and notes. "The... Book of Moses… with the English... Translation... with notes... by Lion Soesmans". London: Lion Soesmans and Co., [1787].

Six-volume set, separate volume for Megillot. Hebrew and English on facing pages.
English divisional title page for Haftarot in each of the five Torah volumes.

Six volumes. Bereshit: [176; 28] leaves. Shemot: [149; 36] leaves. Vayikra: [103; 36] leaves. Bamidbar: [143; 22 leaves]. Devarim: [127; 34] leaves. Five Megillot: [89] leaves. Five Torah volumes: approx. 18 cm. Five Megillot volume: 20.5 cm. Condition of volumes varies. First five volumes in fair-good to fair condition; sixth volume in good condition. Many stains to first five volumes, including large dark stains and dampstains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text in several places. Several leaves detached. Old leather bindings (sixth volume in original decorated binding, different from other volumes). Damage to bindings (some broken with front or back side detached).
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Lot 48 Tehillim – Basel, 1523 – Miniature Format – Particularly Rare Edition

Tehillim, Psalterium Hebraicum. Basel: Johann Froben, 1523. Miniature format. Fine woodcut illustration on title
Tehillim, Psalterium Hebraicum. Basel: Johann Froben, 1523. Miniature format. Fine woodcut illustration on title
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Tehillim, Psalterium Hebraicum. Basel: Johann Froben, 1523. Miniature format.

Fine woodcut illustration on title page. Margins traced with thin line in red ink on every page.
After Tehillim are printed the Ten Commandments (end lacking), colophon and woodcut illustration of King David (both lacking).
Handwritten inscriptions in Latin on title page, and minute inscriptions inside main text on many leaves.

[181] leaves. Lacking 3 leaves: One in middle (leaf [144]) and last 2 leaves. Last leaves of this copy misordered. Approx. 9 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good condition. Light wear and tears to last leaves, repaired with paper strips. Open tear, slightly affecting text of one leaf. New leather binding, with gilt decorations on front of binding ("A. C") and spine ("A. H"). Placed in a cardboard case, with light damage.

Particularly rare edition. Recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a copy from the British Library. Not recorded in NLI catalog. To the best of our knowledge, it has not previously been put up for auction.
See: J. Prijs, Die Basler Hebraischen Drucke, Olten und Freiburg, 1964, No. 13.
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Lot 49 Tehillim – Leiden, 1637 – Fine Copy in Early Leather Binding

Book of Tehillim. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. Fine copy, in early leather binding, with gilt decorations. [1
Book of Tehillim. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. Fine copy, in early leather binding, with gilt decorations. [1
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Book of Tehillim. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637.

Fine copy, in early leather binding, with gilt decorations.

[120] leaves. 11.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Early leather binding, with gilt decorations and original color endpaper. Ex libris label. Stains and damage to binding.
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Lot 50 Tehillim – Amsterdam, 1740 – Fine Copy

Tehillim, arranged for weekly and monthly readings, with a short and long commentary. Amsterdam: Proops, 1740. Sm
Tehillim, arranged for weekly and monthly readings, with a short and long commentary. Amsterdam: Proops, 1740. Sm
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Tehillim, arranged for weekly and monthly readings, with a short and long commentary. Amsterdam: Proops, 1740.

Small format, "in a small volume to ease the burden for travelers, of utmost beauty, both in letters and in paper and ink" (from the text on the title page).
The two commentaries were first printed with the Shaar HaShamayim siddur by the Shlah, (Amsterdam, 1717), edited by the Shlah's great-grandson R. Avraham Horowitz. At the beginning of this volume appears R. Avraham Horowitz's preface: "How we customarily recite Tehillim".
The extensive commentary is by R. Moshe ben Yisrael de Mercado from his "Commentary on Kohelet and Tehillim" (Amsterdam, 1653), which was inserted into the 1717 edition with changes. The author of the short commentary may be R. Avraham Horowitz.
On p. 4b appears the Proops family device.

152 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Damage and small tear to center of title page, slightly affecting text, and tears affecting text of two leaves, without loss, one repaired with tape. Stamps. New leather binding.

Provenance: Kestenbaum & Company, New York, March 2000, Lot 183.

Stamp on endpaper and leaf 2 of "Avraham Marx".
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Lot 51 Tehillim – Avignon, 1822 – Small Format

Tehillim, Liber Psalmorum. Avignon (southern France): Laurentii Aubanel, 1822. Fine, small format Tehillim. Eac
Tehillim, Liber Psalmorum. Avignon (southern France): Laurentii Aubanel, 1822. Fine, small format Tehillim. Eac
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Tehillim, Liber Psalmorum. Avignon (southern France): Laurentii Aubanel, 1822.

Fine, small format Tehillim. Each page of text enclosed in a frame. Unvocalized.

272 pages. 11 cm. Gilt upper edges. Good condition. Stains. Ex libris label on back endpaper. Fine new leather binding.

Another larger edition was published concurrently in Avignon.
Only a few Hebrew books were published in Avignon in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Lot 52 Collection of Books of Tehillim – Commentaries, Chassidic and More

Collection of Books of Tehillim, with various commentaries, including important Chassidic commentaries. For list of bo
Collection of Books of Tehillim, with various commentaries, including important Chassidic commentaries. For list of bo
Collection of Books of Tehillim, with various commentaries, including important Chassidic commentaries. For list of bo
Collection of Books of Tehillim, with various commentaries, including important Chassidic commentaries. For list of bo
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Collection of Books of Tehillim – Commentaries, Chassidic and More Collection of Books of Tehillim – Commentaries, Chassidic and More Collection of Books of Tehillim – Commentaries, Chassidic and More Collection of Books of Tehillim – Commentaries, Chassidic and More
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Collection of Books of Tehillim, with various commentaries, including important Chassidic commentaries.
For list of books see Hebrew description .

10 volumes. Size and condition varies. Old bindings. 
Books have not been thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.
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