The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis:
R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68).
The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:
The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.
Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).
As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:
The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.
Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).
Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).
Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions.
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LOT 1:
(KABBALAH). Raziel ...
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Sold for: $10,000
Start price:
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8,000
Estimated price :
$8,000 - $12,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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(KABBALAH). Raziel HaMalach. FIRST EDITION.
[A celebrated cornucopia of mystical texts and magical recipes].
Complex Kabbalistic charts and diagrams throughout.
This copy with uncommonly wide margins.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 731.
Amsterdam, Moses ben Abraham Mendes Coitinho, 1701.
A sacred book, possession of which guards one’s home from fire and acts as a protection for related negative concerns (as stated on the title-page).
The first section of the Raziel Hamalach, known as the Sepher HaMalbush, relates that soon after Adam HaRishon was exiled from the Garden of Eden, he prayed to God with remorse over his fall from grace, whereupon the Angel Raziel appeared in order to console Adam by imparting to him the wisdom of the Book of Raziel from which Adam’s descendants would be equipped to foretell their future. An intricate formula with complex instructions follows, indicating preliminary actions to be performed prior to studying the text.
Included here are detailed spiritual laws of Nature, knowledge of the energy contained within the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the power of Man’s soul within the confines of physicality; in other words, how to harmonize physical and spiritual existence in this material world.
