F i n e Ju d a i C a . he b r e w pr i n t e d bo o K s , ma n u s C r i p t s , Gr a p h i C & Ce r e m o n i a l ar t K e s t e n b a u m & Co m p a n y th u r s d a y , ap r i l 2n d , 2009 K ESTENBAUM & COMPANY . Auctioneers of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Fine Art A Lot 38 Catalogue of F INE JUDAICA . PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART Including: The Prague Hagadah, 1526 An Extraordinarily Fine Copy of Abraham ibn Ezra’s Commentary to the Torah, Naples, 1488 An Autograph Manuscript Signed by R. Yonassan Eybescheutz Governor Worthington’s Speech on the Maryland Test Act, Baltimore, 1824 Photographic Archive by Issacher Ber Ryback Selections from the Rare Book-Room of a College Library (Final Part) (Short-Title Index in Hebrew available upon request) ——— To be Offered for Sale by Auction, Thursday, 2nd April, 2009 at 3:00 pm precisely ——— Viewing Beforehand on: Sunday, 29th March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Monday, 30th March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Tuesday, 31st March - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Wednesday, 1st April - 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Thursday, 2nd April - 10:00 am - 2:30 pm Gallery-Talk with the Auction Expert: Tuesday, 31st March at 6:00 pm This Sale may be referred to as: “Merari” Sale Number Forty-Three 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: The Prague Hagadah, 1526 (Lot 124) Back Cover Illustration: The Anson Statute of Liberty Menorah (Lot 321) List of prices realized will be posted on our Web site, www.kestenbaum.net, following the sale. — P RINTED BOOKS — 1 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Bikurei ha-Yam: The First Fruits of the West. Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 3. Kingston, Jamaica, 1844. * Olath Tamid, Book of Prayers for Israelitisch Congregations. Prepared by David Einhorn]. [Singerman 2340; Karp, From the Ends of the Earth pp. 303-4]. New York, 1872. * Lazarus, Emma. Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and other Poems. FIRST EDITION. New York, 1882. * Friedman, Lee M. Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal: His Newport Sermon and His Yale Portrait. Boston, Privately Printed, 1940. Together four works. Some wear. Variously bound. v.s. $500-700 2 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). The Occident and American Jewish Advocate. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Diffusion of Jewish Knowledge. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Volumes I (pp. 616). * Volume II: (pp. 616). * Volume III: (pp. 628). Together three volumes, each with detailed Table of Contents. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rubbed. 4to. [Rosenbach 541]. Philadelphia, C. Sherman: 1844-46. $800-1200 Lot 3 3 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). LEESER, ISAAC. “History of the Jews and Their Religion” in: Cyclopedia of Religious Denominations. Containing Authentic Accounts of the Different Creeds and Systems Prevailing Throughout the World. Written by Members of the Respective Bodies. Third edition. pp. 8 (Leeser’s contribution). Very light stains. Original boards, gilt extra. Sm. 4to. Glasgow, Bell and Bain: (1853). $1500-2000 ❧ In this overview of Judaism, the “Pastor of the Hebrew Portuguese Congregation, Philadelphia,” Rev. Isaac Leeser, takes the reader back to the times of Abraham and Moses, presents Maimonides’ Thirteen Articles of Faith, and quotes Mendelssohn’s “Jerusalem” concerning the signifi cance of the commandments and ceremonies Rare to appear at auction. [SEE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE RIGHT] 4 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). LYONS, JACQUES J[UDAH] AND DE SOLA, ABRAHAM. A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years. FIRST EDITION. pp. 177, (1). Trace foxed, a few scribbles in pencil. Modern boards. 8vo. Montreal, John Lovell: 1854. $2000-2500 ❧ In addition to calendars for 1853 to 1903, the most important feature of this volume is that it contains the fi rst Jewish communal directory published in North America. It consists of a comprehensive detailed twenty-fi ve page survey of synagogues, societies and other Jewish institutions across America, Canada and the Caribbean. The inclusion of such a Lot 4 communal survey in the volume was likely the initiative of Jacques J. Lyons (1813-1877). A native of Surinam and the Minister of New York’s Shearith Israel congregation, Lyons was the fi rst to express a serious interest in American Jewish history and actively collected communal data and other such ephemera. Abraham De Sola (1825-1882), a native of London, moved to Montreal to assume the pulpit of Shearith Israel of that city. De Sola was the fi rst Jew to be awarded a Doctor of Laws degree in the English-speaking world and became senior professor at McGill University. Despite being both a Jew and a British subject, de Sola was invited by President Grant to deliver the convocation at the opening of a Congressional session. Both Lyons and De Sola were vigorous upholders of traditional Judaism. [SEE ILLUSTRATION MIDDLE RIGHT] 5 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). (Bible. Hebrew). Torah Nevi’im u-Kethuvim. Biblia Hebraica. Edited by Everard van der Hooght. With notes by Isaac Leeser. Square Hebrew characters with vowel points and cantillation. Title Latin and Hebrew. Two-page introduction by Isaac Leeser in Latin (dated September 1848), followed by two-page Latin introductuion by Augustus Hahn. Appended, a short Hebrew-Latin dictionary of terms occurring in the Masoretic notes. pp.(6),1416. Some marginalia in light pencil, otherwise clean copy. Contemporary diced morocco, scratched. Thick 4to. [Not in Vinograd or Darlow & Moule; cf. Singerman 1271]. Philadelphia, L[aurent] Johnson et Soc.: 1856. $500-700 [SEE ILLUSTRATION BOTTOM RIGHT] Lot 5 1 Lot 6 Lot 7 Lot 10 6 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). CHAIM SHABTHAI. 9 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). BIEN, HERMAN M. Samson and (MaHaRCHa”SH). Torath Chaim [responsa]. Parts I, II and III Delilah; or, Dagon Stoops to Sabaoth. A Biblio-Romantic Tragedy, (complete). FIRST EDITIONS. Three parts bound in three volumes. in Five Acts, With a Prelude. FIRST EDITION. Lithograph of Samson Part I: ff. 5,148; Part II: ff. 4, 128; Part III: ff. 8, 192. Ex-library, scattered and Delilah opposite title. pp. (79), 1. Crisp, clean copy. Original blind- marginalia in a Sephardic hand, some staining, slight marginal repair on embossed boards, gilt. 12mo. [Singerman 1636]. title of Part II, small hole on on fi rst leaf of index of Part I. Later boards, San Francisco, Commercial Steam Presses: 1860. $800-1200 loose. Folio. [Vinograd, Salonika 211-12 & 223]. ❧ During Herman Bien’s stay in San Francisco (1854-1860), Salonika, 1713, 1715 and 1722. $1200-1500 he served as lecturer-teacher of Temple Emanu-El and ❧ The earliest recorded responsa from the New World founded The Voice of Israel. He was a brother of Julius Torath Chaim, Vol. III, Responsa no. 3, discusses the Bien, lithographer and national president of B’nai Brith. See appropriate season to pray for rain. The inquiry was sent from Cogan, The Jews of San Francisco(1973) p. 118. the Jewish Community of Recife, Brazil to R. Chaim Shabthai, Chief Rabbi of Salonika, and one of the outstanding scholars 10 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Minhag America - The Daily Prayers, for of his time. The circumstances of living in the tropical climate American Israelites as Revised in Conference. With: Select Payers of Brazil created concerns regarding preserving the traditional for Various Occasions In Life. Edited by Isaac Mayer Wise. Hebrew season to recite the Prayer for Rain. “Thus making the New and English on facing pages. pp. (2), 271, (1 blank); 48. Ex-library. World’s fi rst contribution to the Responsa Literature.” See M.A. Contemporary morocco, front board detached, no spine. 8vo. [Singerman 2337]. Cohen, Sephardim in the Americas, American Jewish Archives Cincinnati, Bloch & Company: 1872. $800-1200 vol. XLIV (1992) p. 218. ❧ The fi rst Reform Prayer-book printed in America. [SEE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE LEFT] Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900) was born in Steingrub, Bohemia and immigrated to America in 1846. At fi rst a rabbi in Albany, 7 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Order of Prayer in the House of in 1854 he moved to Cincinnati. There he established the Mourners. English, German and Hebrew. pp. 17, (3 blanks). Loose. institutional structure of American Reform Judaism: the Union 8vo. [Not in Singerman]. of American Hebrew Congregations and Hebrew Union College. New York, M. Thalmessinger & Co.: 1871. $400-600 Wise, who desired to publish an “American” prayer book from his earliest years in the country, believed that the acceptance by [SEE ILLUSTRATION ABOVE MIDDLE] all American Jews of a single liturgical rite would represent a great step toward unity. This fi rst Reform prayer-book retained 8 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Hymns for Divine Service in the Temple a Hebrew text and the traditional framework of the liturgy, Emanu-El.