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 4:
VOLOZHINER, CHAIM.
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Sold for: $55,000
Start price:
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55,000
Estimated price :
$70,000 - $90,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
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VOLOZHINER, CHAIM.
His personal copy of: Atzmoth Yoseph [novellae and discourses to Masechta Kiddushin] by Yoseph ben Yitzchak ibn Ezra. ff. 120. Interior lightly stained with expert repaired worming. Binding expertly repaired retaining original patterned front and rear covers. Sm. 4to.
Fürth, 1767.
לה’ הארץ ומלואה הק’ חיים בלא”א [בן לאדוני אבי] כמוהר”ר [כבוד מורינו הרב ר’] יצחק נר”ו [נטריה רחמנא ופרקיה] מוולאזין חוטר מגזע רפאפורט.
“To the Lord is the earth and the fullness thereof; the humble Chaim, son of my master, my father, the honorable, my mentor, Rabbi Yitzchak, may the Merciful preserve and vindicate him, of the town of Volozhin; originating from the Rapaport dynasty.”
The volume has been carefully conserved and retains the original outer covers possessed when R. Chaim owned and studied from it.
On the title-page R. Chaim Volozhiner writes in his hand, a fulsome ownership inscription (see above).
It is notable that R. Chaim makes specific record of his connection to the noble Rapaport family. This is via the lineage of his mother, Rivka (d. 1780), daughter of R. Yosef HaKohen Rapaport, Av Beth Din of Piesk & Minsk. The Rapaport family was regarded by the Vilna Gaon himself, to be of particular, priestly privilege.
It is likely that this is the only surviving Sefer, from which it is categorically clear, R. Chaim directly studied from.
Sepher Atzmoth Yoseph is an invaluable reference work to assist with the study of Talmud Tractate Kidushin. It was composed by Yoseph ben Yitzchak ibn Ezra of Thessaloniki, a disciple of Shmuel de Medina. The first edition appeared in 1601; the present issue is the third edition (see Vinograd, Fürth 370).
For an article written by Kikar Shabbat on this particular volume, see:
https://www.kikar.co.il/actualy/209851
See also:
http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/Chaim_Volozhin
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/volozhin/vol077.html
https://www.geni.com/people/Reb-Chaim-Volozhiner/6000000003181980579
