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Fine Judaica, to Be Held December 18Th, 2008 F INE JUDAICA . HEBREW PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY T HURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 2008 K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art A Lot 157 (composite) Catalogue of F INE JUDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART Including: A Complete Set of the Celebrated Slavita Shas, 1817-1822. The First English Edition of Theodor Herzl’s The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), 1896. The Jewish Manual; London, 1846: The First Kosher Cookbook in the English Language. Collection of Hebrew Manuscript Letters of Rabbi Samson Morpurgo, 1715-1736. The “Rainbow” Hagadah of 1945. and Selections from the Rare Book-Room of a College Library (Part Two) (Short-Title Index in Hebrew available upon request) ——— To be Offered for Sale by Auction, Thursday, 18th December, 2008 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand on: Sunday, 14th December - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday, 15th December - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuesday, 16th December - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Wednesday, 17th December - 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm Thursday, 18th December - 10:00 am - 2:30 pm This Sale may be referred to as: “Ananda” Sale Number Forty-Two Illustrated Catalogues: $35 (US) * $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: 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 ❧ ❧ ❧ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Many books in this auction have been de-accessioned from a College Library. The expression “ex-library” will indicate such a volume may contain any number of library stamps, notations, or other distinguishing marks which may not be individually detailed in the relevant catalogue description. __________________ Front Cover Illustration: Lot 256 Back Cover Illustration: Lot 350 List of prices realized will be posted on our Web site, www.kestenbaum.net, following the sale. — P RINTED BOOKS — 1 AARONSOHN, MOSES. Pardess HaBinah [13 sermons]. Appended: Mat’ei Moshe [12 halachic responsa]. FIRST EDITION. pp. (4), 66, 68-144 (mispaginated but complete); ff. 2-5, pp. 10-92. Browned. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, front board detached. 4to. [Friedberg, P-613]. Amsterdam (i.e. Johannesburg), 1842 (i.e. 1855). $300-400 ❧ Born in Salant, Lithuania in 1805, the Author served as rabbi in several neighboring towns before migrating to New York in 1860. In 1878, his widow and sons published in Jerusalem a posthumous work, Mata’ei Moshe, which contains responsa refl ective of Jewish life on New York’s Lower East Side Due to government censorship, the title notes the place of publication as “Amsterdam,” when in fact the printing was accomplished in Johannesburg, East Prussia. [SEE ILLUSTRATION RIGHT] 2 ABOAB, SAMUEL. Devar Shmuel [responsa]. With supplement: Zichron LeB’nei Yisrael, concerning pseudo- messiah Shabthai Tzvi (lacking from most copies). FIRST EDITION. ff. (6), 104. Ex-library, some staining and foxing. Later cloth. Sm. folio. [Vinograd, Venice 1533; see G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: the Mystical Messiah (1975) pp. 763-69]. Venice, Vendramin: 1702. $300-500 Lot 1 3 ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC. Peirush al Nevi’im Acharonim [commentary to the Later Prophets wih Biblical text]. Second Edition. ff. (1), 305. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 56; Fuks, Amsterdam 204]. Amsterdam, Immanuel Benveniste, 1641. * AND: Peirush al Nevi’im Rishonim [commentary to the Former Prophets wih Biblical text]. Second Edition. ff. (6), 308, (4). [Vinograd, Leipzig 24]. Leipzig, Weinmannum, 1686. Bound with: Solomon Ibn Melech, Michlal Yoffi [linguistic commentary to the Bible with Leket Shikcha, supplement by Jacob Abendana]. Third edition, Title within an elaborate woodcut arch depicting King David with his harp. Additional Latin title. ff. 4, 220. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 508]. Amsterdam, David de Castro Tartas,1685 * AND: Peirush al Ha’Torah [commentary to the Pentateuch, with sub-title Beth Shaar Katan, Hebrew and Latin indices]. Third edition. ff. (7), 3-343, (9), (1), 11. [Vinograd, Hanau 65]. Hanau, Henoch Jacob, 1710. Together four works in three volumes. Scattered Latin and Hebrew marginalia. Browned in places, few minimal stains. All three volumes in contemporary vellum. Folio. v.p., v. d.. $1500-2000 ❧ Abrabanel endeavors to explain the general content of the Bible, its principles, views and moral teachings more than the actual meaning of the words and passages. Primarily a philosophical, theological, ethical and to some extent historical commentary, his method as an exegete is entirely novel, prefacing each section of each Book with a number of questions and then interpreting that section in such a manner as to gradually resolve them. Lot 3 [SEE ILLUSTRATION LEFT] 1 4 ABRAHAM BEN DANIEL. Kanah Avraham. FIRST EDITION. ff, 24. Previous owners’ signatures. Modern boards. 4to. [Vinograd, Fûrth 135]. Fûrth, Chaim ben Tzvi Hirsch of Fürth: 1738. $300-500 ❧ Sets out the the laws of Yoreh Deah in a question and answer format, with additional material culled from various works of responsa. The author hailed from Aptashni, near Cracow, Poland. [SEE ILLUSTRATION TOP LEFT] 5 ABRAHAM OF PREMISLA. Petach Ha’Ohel [an encyclopedic work on various halachic, midrashic and homiletic subjects in alphabetical order]. FIRST EDITION. ff. (2), 33, 50. Ex-library. Some staining, slight worming on a few leaves, leaves supplied from another shorter copy. Later boards. 4to. [Vinograd, Sulzbach 31]. Sulzbach, M. Bloch: 1691. $200-300 6 ADARBI, ISAAC. Divrei Rivoth [“Matters of Disputes”: responsa]. Second Edition. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Scholarly marginalia in a Sephardic hand. ff. 198 (i.e. 200). Ex-library. Dampstained in places. Later boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 703; Haberman, di Lot 4 Gara 88; Adams I-177]. Venice, Giovanni di Gara: 1587. $400-600 ❧ Important collection of 430 responsa. The author (1510-1584?), Rabbi of the Lisbon Jewish congregation in Salonika, was a disciple of R. Joseph Taitatzak and a colleague of R. Samuel de Medina (MaHaRaSHDa”M). Adarbi many times takes exception to the latter’s rulings. See EJ, Vol. II, col. 254. [SEE ILLUSTRATION MIDDLE LEFT] 7 ADARBI, ISAAC. Divrei Shalom [sermons and homilies on the Pentateuch]. Third edition. Title within elaborate border. Final page contains inscriptions, 1647-1732, in Italian hands noting family births and circumcisions with names of each babys’ Mohel and Sandak. ff. 168. Ex-library. Slight worming, stains in places. Recent boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 829; not in Adams]. Venice, Matteo Zanetti: 1597. $300-500 8 ADRET, SOLOMON. Shailoth Uteshuvoth HaRaSHB”A [responsa]. Third Edition. Title within historiated woodcut border depicting Moses and Aaron and the Binding of Isaac. ff. 322. Ex-library. Previous owners’ signatures and stamps (including those fom the 17th century), some staining and foxing, slight marginal repair on fi nal leaf. Later boards, broken, spine lacking. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Hanau 7]. Lot 6 Hanau, Hans Jakob Hanau: 1610. $300-500 9 (ALEPPO). Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (As Originally Issued): Sepher Alim Letruphah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna]. (4),48, 8. Later calf-backed boards, rubbed. 12mo. [Yaari, Aleppo 1 and 2]. Aleppo, Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson: 1866. $500-700 ❧ The Jews of Aleppo (Arabic, Haleb) referred to their city by the Biblical name of “Aram Tzovah.” This volume contains the fi rst two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. The printer, Elijah Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses. One notes that the fourth and fi nal gate of the Sha’arei Kedushah is truncated. The printer demurs: “This section is unprinted. Since it consists of [Divine] names and hidden mysteries, it would be unlawful to commit it to print” (f.48v.) The text of the letter of the Vina Gaon differs in many places from the standard European edition. [SEE ILLUSTRATION BOTTOM LEFT] LoLott 9 2 10 ALGAZI, SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM. Lechem Setarim [Talmudic novellae to Tractate Avodah Zarah and miscellanea]. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural columns, fl anked by Moses on right and Solomon on left, while above two angels hold aloft the Ten Commandments; at bottom, printer’s mark of three leonine heads (Yudlov, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 18). Learned rabbinic marginalia in old Sephardic hand (ff. 4v., 6r., 11v.). ff. 134. Ex-library. Title and fi rst two leaves tape-repaired, waterstained. Recent cloth. Sm. 4to. [Vinograd, Venice 1366 (correct ff.132 to read ff.134); Steinschneider 6894-9 (col. 2278)]. Venice, Bragadin: 1664. $600-900 ❧ Algazi (1610?-1683) was an outspoken opponent of the pseudo- Messiah of Izmir, Shabbetai Zevi. At the height of Zevi’s power, Algazi, one of Izmir’s distinguished rabbis, was forced to fl ee the city. See G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, p. 414; EJ, Vol. II, col. 610. The book opens with an panegyric composed in honor of the Author by the “magi’ah” (proofreader), R. Moses Zacuto, who pays tribute to R. Solomon’s pilpulistic ability. Zacuto, no mean halachist in his own right, is most famous as being the doyen of the Italian kabbalists of the 17th- century. 11 ALMOSNINO, MOSES. Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]. Second edition. Printer’s devices on title, f. 225b (see Ya’ari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 18) and final leaf (Ya’ari 19; Yudlov, Hebrew Printers’ Marks 3).
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