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Fine Judaica, to Be Held November 21St, 2006 F INE J UDAICA . BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, GRAPHIC &CEREMONIAL ART K ESTENBAUM & C OMPANY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 2006 K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art Ze’ev Raban, gouache. Lot 326 Catalogue of F INE JUDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND GRAPHIC ART Including: Ceremonial Art consigned by an Historic New York Synagogue A Collection of Yiddish Theater Posters Duplicates De-accessioned from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York A Fine 18th-century Illuminated Hebrew Liturgical Manuscript From the Collection of the Director-Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC Books from the Library of the Late Jacob Chernofsky To be Offered for Sale by Auction, Tuesday, 21st November, 2006. at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand on: Sunday, 19th November - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Monday, 20th November - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Tuesday, 21st November - 10:00 am - 2:30 pm This Sale may be referred to as: “Cannon” Sale Number Thirty-Five Illustrated Catalogues: $35 (US) * $42 (Overseas) Hebrew and other supplemental indices available upon request. KESTENBAUM & COMPANY Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art . 12 West 27th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10001 • Tel: 212 366-1197 • Fax: 212 366-1368 E-mail: [email protected] • World Wide Web Site: www.Kestenbaum.net K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Chairman: Daniel E. Kestenbaum Operations Manager: Jackie Insel Client Accounts: S. Rivka Morris Client Relations: Sandra E. Rapoport, Esq. (Consultant) Printed Books & Manuscripts: Rabbi Eliezer Katzman Rabbi Bezalel Naor Ceremonial & Graphic Art: Aviva J. Hoch (Consultant) Catalogue Art Director and Photographer: Anthony Leonardo Auctioneer: Harmer F. Johnson (NYCDCA License no. 0691878) ❧ ❧ ❧ For all inquiries relating to this sale please contact: Daniel E. Kestenbaum ❧ ❧ ❧ Front Cover Illustration (clockwise from top): Lots 316, 70, 306, 305, 63, 309, 224 Back Cover Illustration: Lot 327 List of prices realized will be posted on our Web site, www.kestenbaum.net, following the sale. — P RINTED BOOKS — 1 ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Mirkeveth ha-Mishnah [commentary to Sepher Devarim]. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural fl oral border, two printer’s devices at end. ff.145, (1). Some browning and staining, few leaves inserted from a slightly shorter copy, title repaired with small portion of lower right corner in facsimile. Later calf, rubbed and slightly chipped. Folio. [Vinograd, Sabbioneta 1; Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher p. 352, no. 1]. Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa: 1551. $1500-2000 ❧ THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN SABBIONETA. With the rare unnumbered fi nal leaf containing a full-page poem by Azariah di Rossi (author of Me’or Einaiyim). With an important introduction concerning the establishment of the Hebrew press at Sabbioneta by the editor-publisher Joseph ben Jacob of Padua. [SEE ILLUSTRATION RIGHT] 2 ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Peirush al ha-Torah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. FIRST EDITION. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti. Printer’s device on title. Printed in double columns. ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Title laid to size. Penultimate leaf torn. Light stains. Later cloth. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 641; Habermann, di Gara 53; Mehlman 626; Adams A-54]. Venice, Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara: 1579. $1000-1500 ❧ “The commentary on the Pentateuch may be considered Abravanel’s most authoritative presentation of his views, and it was not without good reason that he considered it the fi rst and foremost of his works. As Abravanel put it: “I invested in it all my thought and all my knowledge.’” B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman & Philosopher (1968), p.86. Lot 1 3(AMERICAN JUDAICA). JACOB H. SCHIFF. “To the Land of the Rising Sun.” Commemorative album. Elaborate silver binding in Art-Noveau syle. Commissioned by Schiff for Agnes Neustadt, who, together with her husband, Siegmund, accompanied the Schiffs on an ocean-voyage to Japan in 1906. Front cover of binding portrays the ocean liner S.S. Manchuria, the departure port of San Francisco and the arrival port of arrival, Yokohama. With a silver clasp, lock and key. Hallmarked Posen (Germany) 800 wih a crown and half moon. Rear cover with fi ve green semi-precious stones set in a circular fl oral shell attached by silver bars. Housed in a silk pouch. * Accompanied by: Schiff, Jacob H. Our Trip to Japan. Published as a “surprise to the author.” Inscribed: “with kindest thoughts, Jacob H. Schiff.” 1907. $1000-1500 ❧ Jacob H. Schiff (1847-1920) emigrated in 1865 to the United States and worked in various brokerage fi rms. In 1875 he mar- ried the daughter of Solomon Loeb, chief of the banking fi rm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. He succeeded his father-in-law in 1885 and became one of the most powerful fi nanciers in the United States. One of his most spectacular bond issue was for a loan of $200,000,000 to Japan at the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05. Schiff was enraged by the anti-Semitism he saw to be endemic to Russia and so sought to assist Japan in the war- effort. A trip to the Land of the Rising Sun thus ensued. [SEE ILLUSTRATION LEFT] 4 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Seder ha-Tephiloth ke-Minhag ha- Sephardim [Daily Prayers according to Sephardic Rite]. Hebrew. Prayer for the State in Portuguese. Upper cover gilt-tooled: Rev. J.J. Lyons 5636 [1876]. ff.152. Browned. Contemporary blind-tooled black moroc- co, gilt extra. 8vo. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1294]. Amsterdam, Naphtali Herz Levi Rophe: 1726. $500-700 ❧ COPY OF REV. J.J. LYONS OF CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL, NEW YORK. Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877), a native of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, was elected in 1836, Minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City, in which capacity he served for the next thirty-eight years. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 231. In 1857, together with Rev. Dr. Abraham De Sola of Montreal, he published a fi fty-year Hebrew calendar. Lot 3 1 5(AMERICAN JUDAICA). SPITZ, TZVI HIRSCH. Divrei Chachamim Ve-Chidotham [com- mentary to Talmudic Aggadoth]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 75. Some browning, wide margins. Covers detached. 4to. [Vinograd, Offenbach 155]. Offenbach, Tzvi Hirsch Spitz & Son: 1802. $400-600 ❧ In his introduction, the author tells of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. 6 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Sepher Tehillim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce cum Notis Selectis ex Editione Frances Hare S.T.P. Episcopi Cicestrensis: et cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P. Title in Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew and Latin translation with Latin footnotes interspersed with Hebrew. ff. (2), pp. 494 (of 495). Missing fi nal leaf. Ex-library. Some foxing. Later cloth. 12mo. [Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 1; Rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004]. Cambridge, New England, Hilliard and Metcalf: 1809. $4000-6000 ❧ THE FIRST PRINTING OF ANY PART OF THE BIBLE IN HEBREW IN AMERICA. This Psalter represents the fi rst printing in America of any part of the Bible in Hebrew. Its appearance sparked a desire to print the complete Hebrew Bible in the New World, that reached fruition in 1814 (see Rosenbach 171). Concerning this scarce 1809 Hebrew Psalter, see J. Wright, Early Bibles in America (1894), p. 122. [SEE ILLUSTRATION TOP LEFT] 7 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Wilson, James P. An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the Lot 6 Hebrew Language. Selected Translations of the Pentateuch, Psalms, Prophets and Job; plus a Hebrew Grammar. pp. 276. Some staining. Contemporary calf. 8vo. [Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 175; Wolf and Whiteman, The History of the Jews of Phildelphia (1957) p. 308]. Philadelphia, Fry and Kammerer: 1812. $3000-5000 ❧ THE FIRST HEBREW TEXT WITH TRANSLATION OF SELECTED PASSAGES OF THE BIBLE (OTHER THAN PSALMS) PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. THE FIRST WORK IN HEBREW TO APPEAR IN PHILADELPHIA. The fi nal leaf contains the following statement: “As Hebrew Bibles are very scarce, those who wish to be supplied are hereby recommended to Mr. Horwitz...who contem- plates editing in Philadelphia a copy of Van Der Hoogt’s celebrated edition.” Horwitz sold his rights to this Bible and it was eventually published in 1814 as the fi rst complete Hebrew Bible in America. (See Goldman no. 3). 8(AMERICAN JUDAICA). Nile’s Weekly Register. Third Series. Vol. V, No. 5. Printed in double columns. pp. (1), 66-80. Lightly foxed. Loose. 4to. Baltimore, William Ogden Niles: 1825. $400-600 ❧ On p. 69, a scathing denunciation of Mordecai Manuel Noah and his recently pro- posed project of “Ararat” - i.e. Grand Island on the Niagara River, near Buffalo, New York, which was to serve as an asylum for the Jews. In H. Niles’ jaundiced version of events, “Ararat” is just one more example of a Jew seeking to cheat his fellow Jew by land speculation. Furthermore, Niles perceives Noah as suffering from delusions of grandeur, next expecting Noah to proclaim himself as the Messiah. For a more factual presentation of the entire Ararat affair, see EJ, Vol. XII cols. 1198-9. 9(AMERICAN JUDAICA). Simon, Barbara Anne. The Hope of Israel; Presumptive Evidence That the Aborigines of the Western Hemisphere are Descended from the Ten Missing Tribes of Israel. FIRST EDITION. Title in English and Hebrew. Appendix with notes relating to a Jewish presence in China. pp. 8, 328. Very slight stains. Contemporary boards, soiled. 4to. [J.H. Copenhagen, Menasseh ben Israel: A Bibliography (1990) 651; Roth, p. 380]. London, 1829. $700-900 ❧ “...Our lost brethren were the ancestors of the Indians of the American Continent... They bent their course in a north-west direction, which brought them within a few leagues of the American Continent, and which they fi nally reached” (pp.33-34).
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