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F Ine J Udaica F INE J UDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, GRAPHIC &CEREMONIAL ART K ESTENBAUM & C OMPANY THURSDAY, MARCH 23RD, 2006 K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art Lot 374 Catalogue of F INE JUDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, GRAPHIC AND CEREMONIAL ART Including: A Collection of Early Printed Hebrew Bibles The Ernest W. Michel Collection of Autograph Letters Artwork by Issachar-Ber Ryback, acquired directly from the Artist in Paris To be Offered for Sale by Auction on Thursday, 23rd March, 2006 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand on Sunday, 19th March: 10:00 am–6:00 pm Monday, 20th March: 12:00 pm–6:00 pm Tuesday, 21st March: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Wednesday, 22nd March: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Thursday, 23rd March: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm A Hebrew Index, as well as digital images of many lots, are available upon request. Also available, where appropriate, are comprehensive translations of select Autograph Letters This Sale may be referred to as “Wedgwood” Sale Number Thirty-Two. 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: Lot 1- 192 Autograph Letters and Manuscripts: Lots 193 - 295 Graphic Art: Lots 296 - 361 Ceremonial Art: Lots 362 - End of Sale Front Cover: The celebrated “grape-vine” map of the Holy Land, 1741 (see Lot 136) Rear Cover: The Oslo Peace Agreement. Photograph Signed by the three principals (see Lot 272) 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. Lev Aharon [commentary to the 2 ALEXANDER SUESSLIN HAKOHEN OF FRANKFURT. Books of Joshua and Judges, with text]. FIRST EDITION. Title Sepher ha-Agudah [Halachic compendium arranged in order within architectural arch, opening word within ornamental of the tractates of the Talmud]. FIRST EDITION. Title with- border. Printers mark on f. 2v. (Yaari Printers’ Marks no. in elaborate architectural arch. Letters of initial words in 19). ff. 122, (2),129, (3). Stained. Contemporary blind-tooled vignettes. Printed in double columns. Former owner’s sig- calf, worn. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice 1052; Habermann, di nature on title. ff. 4, 250. Some staining, slight tear to f.158. Gara 266]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with various historiated panels, later clasps. Rebacked. Folio. [Vinograd, Venice, Giovanni di Gara: 1608. $1000-1500 Cracow 32; not in Adams]. ❧ The author, R. Aaron ibn Chaim I (1545-1632) served Cracow, Isaac Prostitz: 1571. $2500-3000 as a dayan or justice in the court of Vidal ha-Tzarfati in Fez, Morocco. He is most famous for his commentary ❧ Published from a manuscript with corrections on the Siphra or Torath Kohanim, Korban Aharon. - It is supplied by Joseph Hakohen (brother-in-law of possible that in composing a commentary to the Siphra, Moses Isserles), author of responsa She’erith Yoseph. ibn Chaim was following in the footsteps of his mentor The author (d. 1348), was a disciple of R. Isaac of Vidal ha-Tzarfati, who earlier composed such a com- Dueren and served as rabbi in Cologne, Worms and mentary. The present commentary to Joshua and Judges Frankfurt. The Sepher ha-Agudah, a popular, author- excels in its command of Midrashic and Talmudic litera- itative code, is cited extensively by R. Jacob ha-Levi ture. See Ch.J.D. Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim I, V-6; EJ, Moellin (Mahari”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). Vol. VIII, cols. 1179-1180 (incl. facs). See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 585-6 (incl. facsimile). [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW LEFT] [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW RIGHT] Lot 1 Lot 2 1 Lot 3 3 ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB (RI”F). Hilchoth Rav Alfas [Rabbinic Code]. With commentaries of Rashi, R. Jonah Gerondi, R. Nissim Gerondi, R. Jonathan Hakohen of Lunel, R. Joseph Habiba (Nimukei Yoseph), R. Zerachyah Halevi (Ba’al ha-Ma’or), and Nachmanides (Milchamoth Hashem). FIRST EDITION with complete commentary Shiltei ha-Giborim by R. Joshua Boaz (contains comments of R. Isaiah di Trani). Three volumes. Title letters historiated. Printer’s mark at end Vol. III (see Yaari 21). On fi nal leaves of Vol. I and II, censors’ inscriptions: “Dominico Irosolimitano” (see Wm. Poppers, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. III, no.1); “Visto per me Gio[vanni] Dominico Carretto, 1618” (Poppers, pl. III, no. 7). Vol. I (Tractate Berachoth, Halachoth Ketanoth, and Seder Mo’ed): ff. 98, 97-170,170-187, (1), 189-225, (1), 225-229, 229, 227-267, (1), 265-410. Vol. II (Seder Nashim and Tractate Hullin): ff. (1), 402-778, 54. Vol. III (Seder Nezikin): ff. 57 (i.e. 58), 65-398. Stained. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco, partially rebacked, spine in compartments, later clasps. Folio. [Vinograd, Sabbioneta 16; Mehlman 737; Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, I, pp.394-5 (incl. facs.); Ch.J.D. Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim II, S-76; not in Adams]. Sabbioneta, Tobias Foa: 1554-5. $20,000-25,000 ❧ A VERY FINE COPY OF A RARE EDITION. [SEE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE] 2 4 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). The works of Flavius Josephus. Translated into English from Greek by Sir Roger L’Estrange. Four vol- umes. Vol. I: pp. (4), 520. Vol. II: pp. 502. Vol. III: pp. 485. Vol IV: pp. (2), 506, (22). Browned. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Front cover Vol. IV detached. 4to. [Rosenbach 55, 64, 66, 67; Heinz Schrekenberg, Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus (Leiden: Brill, 1968)]. Philadelphia / New York, v.p.: 1773-5. $2000-3000 ❧ FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS While individual works of Josephus were printed in America as ealy as 1719 (see Rosenbach 15), this is the fi rst American edition of the complete works. Josephus’ works are an invaluable history of the Second Temple period. Known in Hebrew as Joseph ben Mathathius Hakohen, he was an eyewitness to the Jewish revolt against Rome which culminated in the destruction of the Second Temple. Though he has been accused at times of pandering to the Roman overlord and of exaggerating his own impor- tance, there is no denying that his works are an indespensable repository of information concerning this tragic period in Jewish history. It is said that R. Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, urged his disciples to translate Josephus into Hebrew for the benefi t of traditional Torah scholars. [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW RIGHT] 5 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Anonymous. Nouvelles Observations, Sur La Seconde Lettre de Mr. de Pinto A L’Occasion des Troubles de L’Amerique Septentrionalle. French text. pp. [1], 60. Uncut and disbound. 8vo. [Not in Roth nor in Szajkowski]. London, 1776. $3000-5000 ❧ Isaac de Pinto (1717-87), a prominent econo- mist and Jewish apologist who debated Voltaire on the Jewish question, published a number of pam- phlets in 1776 critical of the America Revolution. He feared that once independent, the American colonies would seek to take control of other European pos- sessions in North America and thereby dominate the fl ow of bullion. Most of all, Pinto considered the American Revolution an uprising against basic politi- cal order. Among those who argued against Pinto’s position was the anonymous author of the present Nouvelles Observations. See Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews, 150-2. Born into a Portuguese family in Bordeaux and a resident of Holland, Pinto was “the most important Jewish literary fi gure who wrote in French before the revolution...he left a considerable body of work and, at least as an economist, he was far ahead of his time” (Hertzberg, 142-3). [SEE ILLUSTRATION NEXT PAGE] Lot 4 3 6 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Leeser, Isaac. The Claims of the 7 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). IRVING, CHRISTOPHER. A Jews to an Equality of Rights. FIRST EDITION. pp. 99. Catechism of Jewish Antiquities...Ceremonies, Manners, * Bound with: Leeser, Isaac. Discourses, Argumentative and Customs of the Ancient Jews. First American Edition. Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion. Delivered Engraved illustration. pp. 80. Original wrappers. 12 mo.. Chiefl y at the Synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the [Singerman 348]. Years 5598-5601. Second Series or Vol. III. FIRST EDITION. pp. New York, Gray and Hewitt: 1822. $700-900 12, 268. [Singerman 0745 and 0748]. [SEE ILLUSTRATION BELOW LEFT] Philadelphia, C. Sherman & Co: 1841. $1500-2500 ❧ In his book The Claims of the Jews to an Equality 8 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Psalms in Hebrew. Square of Rights, Rev. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) emerged Hebrew characters with vowel points and canillation notes. as a national leader and primary spokesman for pp.184. Lightly foxed. Contemporary boards, spine gilt. 12mo. American Jewry. The book contains six essays which Andover (Mass.), Allen, Morrill and Wardwell: 1845. fi rst appeared as a series of letters to the Philadelphia $1200-1800 Gazette in an attempt to thwart the efforts of Christian missionaries. ❧ RARE HEBREW PSALMS FROM ANDOVER. Not found In his fi nal letter to the Gazette, Leeser boldly in any bibliographic sources consulted wrote, “As citizens with equal rights, not as tolerated It is possible that the famous Andover Theological aliens, we demand of our fellow-citizens to abate the Seminary played some part in issuing this Hebrew causeless prejudice which so many entertain for us” Psalter, but one fi nds no trace of such linkage in the (p.
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