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F Ine J Udaica F INE J UDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS &GRAPHIC ART K ESTENBAUM & C OMPANY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 2005 K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art Lot 82 Catalogue of F INE JUDAICA . Hebrew and other Printed Books, From a New York Estate, as well as other Sources. To be Offered for Sale by Auction on Tuesday, 13th December, 2005 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand on Sunday, 11th December: 10:00 am–6:00 pm Monday, 12th December: 10:00 am–6:00 pm Tuesday, 13th December: 10:00 am–2:30 pm A Hebrew Index as well as digital images of many books are available upon request This Sale may be referred to as “Pacifi c” Sale Number Thirty One. Illustrated Catalogues: $35 • $42 (Overseas) 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: Georgina Keenan Client Accounts: S. Rivka Morris Press & Public Relations: Jackie Insel Printed Books: Rabbi Eliezer Katzman Rabbi Bezalel Naor Ceremonial & Graphic Art: Aviva J. Hoch (Consultant) Catalogue Art Director Photography: Anthony Leonardo Auctioneer: Harmer F. Johnson (NYCDCA License no. 0691878) ❧ ❧ ❧ For all inquiries relating to this sale please contact: Daniel E. Kestenbaum ❧ ❧ ❧ ORDER OF SALE Printed Books: Lots 1 – End of Sale NB: Autographed Letters, Manuscripts and Graphic Art, will not, as planned, be offered in this sale, but will be presented in the forthcoming Judaica auction, scheduled for 21st March, 2006. Front Cover (tinted): Chief Rabbi Aaron Hart. Portrait engraving. London, 1751. (Lot 41) Rear Cover: Kol Bo. Rimini, 1525. (Lot 214) List of prices realized will be posted on our Web site, www.kestenbaum.net, following the sale. FINE JUDAICA: — PRINTED BOOKS — 1. AARON IBN CHAIM. Korban Aharon [extensive com- 3. ADARBI, ISAAC. Divrei Rivoth [“Matters of Disputes”: mentary to the Sifra with an essay on hermeneutics]. responsa]. Second Edition. Title within woodcut archi- first edition. Two parts in one. Title within architec- tectural arch. ff. 198 (i.e. 200). Light stains in places, tural arch. Wtih various owner’s signatures including lower corner of leaves frayed not affecting text, slight worming. Ber Adler Ha-Kohen (father of Nathan Marcus Adler, Modern morocco. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 703; Habermann, di Chief Rabbi of the British Empire). ff. 139, 302, (4). Some Gara 88; Adams I-177]. staining. Modern morocco. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 1058; Venice, Giovanni di Gara: 1587. $500-700 Habermann, di Gara 271]. ❧ Important collection of 430 responsa. The Venice, Giovani di Gara: 1609. $400-600 author (1510-1584?), Rabbi of the Lisbon Jewish congregation in Salonika, was a disciple of R. 2. ABRABANEL, ISAAC. Atereth Zekeinim [the fundamen- Joseph Taitatzak and a colleague of R. Samuel tals of Jewish belief, and the advent of the Messiah]. first de Medina, author She’eloth u-Teshuvoth edition. Title within historiated border, printer’s device at MaHaRaSHDa”M. Adarbi many times takes end. ff.40,(4). Previous owner’s signatures on title and fi nal leaf. exception to the latter’s rulings. See EJ, Vol. II, Modern vellum. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Sabbioneta 44]. col. 254. Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa: 1557. $700-1000 Accompanied By: ANOTHER COPY: Isaac Adarbi, Divrei Rivoth. Scattered scholarly mar- ❧ Final four unnumbered leaves contain a ginalia. On title and again on f.20r. signature of short essay entitled Tzuroth Ha-Yesodoth” by former owner, “Aaron Altaras.” ff. 194 (of 198). Abrabanel. Light stains, minor worming. Modern vellum. [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW] Venice, 1587. 4. AL’HARIZI, JUDAH. Tachkemoni. Second edition. ff. 76, (2). Previous owners signatures, small marginal wormhole on fi nal leaves. Old calf. 4to. [Vinograd, Const. 270; Yaari, Const. 196; Adams J-402.]. Constantinople, Solomon and Joseph Yaabetz: 1578. $3000-4000 ❧ Spanish born Judah ben Solomon Al’Harizi (1170-1235) was a preeminent poet and transla- tor from Arabic into Hebrew, especially of the works by Maimonides. Sepher Tachkemoni is Al’Harizi’s major work of poetry, completed in 1220, during the course of the poet’s extensive travels through the Near East. He includes here a travelogue from Spain through Provence to Egypt, Syria, and Babylonia - complementing the travels of Benjamin of Tudela fi fty years earlier. He writes of person- alities encountered in the various cities along the way: Rabbis Meir Halevi (RaMaH) Abulafi a of Toledo; Sheshet of Barcelona, Kalonymus ha-Nasi of Beaucaire, Abraham Maimonides of Cairo and the princes of Narbonne. See Waxman, Vol. I, pp. 462-465; Judith Dishon, “Medieval Panorama in the Book of Tahkemoni,” PAAJR, Vol. LVI (1990), pp. 11-27. [SEE ILLUSTRATION NEXT PAGE] Lot 2 1 5. ALDABI, MEIR. Shevilei Emunah [An astronomical, 6. ALBO, JOSEPH. Sepher Ikarim [“Book of Principles”: medical, ethical and kabbalistic encyclopedia]. first Theology]. ff. 171. Lacking four leaves (ff. 43-46). Later edition. With astronomical diagrams. ff.129 (of 130), boards. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 226; Habermann, Adelkind 2; f.123 supplied in manuscript in a precise hand. A crisp copy. Adams A-559]. Opening blank contains inscriptions in an Italian hand, signed Venice, Cornelio Adelkind for Giovanni di Farri: 1544. by Baruch Almanzi, signatures of censors on fi nal leaf. 4to. $300-400 [Vinograd, Riva 12]. Riva di Trento, J. Marcaria: 1558. $1500-2000 7. ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F). Sepher Rav Alfas [Rabbinic Code]. Three volumes. * With: Another copy of ❧ Meir Aldabi, who lived in the 14th century, was Vol. III, with additional leaves containing full page wood- a grandson of the Ro”sh (Asher ben Yechiel). cut illustrations of a falcon and a crane (alluding to the This popular work combines the Author’s names of those who published this edition). ff. Vol. I: [4], predilection for Kabbalah together with a knowl- 448 (Vinograd calls for only 445); Vol. II: [3], 338; Vol. III: 430, edge of philosophy, medicine and science. It [3]. Some staining and slight repair of titles and a few other leaves. contains ten sections called “Nethivim” (roads), Modern boards. 12mo. [Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 151]. subdivided into chapters “Shevilim” (paths). It was reprinted many times and served as a source Frankfurt a/Main, Johannes Wust: 1699. $600-900 of scientifi c information for generations. ❧ With approbations including one by R. David The British Museum copy of this Riva di Oppenheim, who notes he recently accepted the Trento edition is “imperfect at end,” a later position of Chief Rabbi of Brisk D’Lita and its Amsterdam edition contains manuscript notes provinces - a fact seemingly unknown to histori- by R. Jacob Emden (see Zedner p. 521). ans. The publisher states in the introduction that [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW RIGHT] this pocket sized edition was produced for those who study in the Beth Ha-Midrash of Frankfurt “from where the light of Torah is spread through- out world.” Lot 4 Lot 5 2 8. (ALEPPO). Alim li-Teruphah [“Leaves for Healing”: Letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]. Appended: Rabbenu Asher, Orchoth Chaim. ff.8. Without Vital, Sha’arei Kedusha. Browned, leaves laid to size, slight stains. Modern calf. 12mo. [Yaari, Aleppo 2]. Aleppo, Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson: 1866. $300-500 ❧ The Jews of Aleppo (Arabic, Haleb) referred to their city by the Biblical name of “Aram Tzovah.” See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2004). 9. ALMOSNINO, JOSEPH. Eiduth bi-Yehoseph [“Testimony in Joseph”: Responsa; appended commentary on Maimonides’ code]. Second edition. first edition of appendix “Leshonoth ha-Ramba”m.” On title, signatures of former owners, R. Jacob Israel Algazi and R. Gedaliah Hayon. (See below). ff. (2), 118. ff.51-52 lower outer margin torn, stained. Modern boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Const. 454; Yaari, Const. 342]. Constantinople, Jonah ben Jacob Aschkenazi: 1733. $600-900 ❧ R. Jacob Israel Algazi and R. Gedaliah Chayon Copy of Responsa Work The author of our work served as chief rabbi of the community of Belgrade (Serbia). Almosnino was a disci- ple of R. Hezekiah da Silva, author “Peri Chadash,” whom he oftimes cites in his work. (See e.g. f.118r.). In the appended commentary to Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, the author records a novel interpretation he presented in the year 1718 (f.117r.). (Thus it is certain the appendix postdates the fi rst edition of Eiduth bi-Yehoseph, Constantinople, 1711.) R. Jacob Israel Algazi (1680-1756) was one of the prominent sages of Izmir, Turkey, author of the halachic methodologies “Ar’a de-Rabbanan” and “Kehilath Ya’akov,” and father of the illustrious R. Yom Tov (Mahari”t) Algazi, famous for his commentaries to Nachmanides’ Hilchoth Bechoroth and Hilchoth Chalah (published in the Vilna Shas as an appendix to Tractate Bechoroth). The elder Algazi was also responsible for the publication of the highly controversial anonymous work “Hemdath Yamim” (Izmir 1731-2). By 1737 we fi nd Algazi in Jerusalem, where he was instrumental in founding a pietist studyhouse, “Beth El.” Hence he became known as “Ha-Rav he- Chasid” (the pietist rabbi). In 1755 Algazi was chosen as chief rabbi of Jerusalem, but died a year later. R. Gedaliah Hayon (d. 1751), a native of Constantinople, was the fi rst leader of the fraternity of kabbal- ists whose center was Beth El. The “Midrash Chasidim Beth El” existed in the Old City of Jerusalem until its destruction by the Jordanian Legionaires in 1948. Ariel Bension has written a most moving memoir of the inte- rior spiritual life of Beth El. The members of this “chevraya kadisha” (holy fraternity) employed in their prayers the Lurianic meditations as set down by R.
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