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.
LOT 51:
SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin / Wife of the ...
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sales tax: 8.875%
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SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin / Wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 1901-88).
Autograph Letter Signed to Nacha Feigel Rivkin (nee Heber).
Riga, (Latvia), 21st September, 1928.
Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka writes here to her life-long friend, Necha (Nacha) Rivkin (1900-88), emphasizes how close she feels to her and her family. Comments about receiving a photograph of Nacha and how all three Schneerson sisters enthusiastically reacted upon seeing it.
Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka arrived in Riga with her family in the Fall of 1927, after her father, the Friediker Rebbe, was banished from Russia. On the 14th of Kislev, 1928, she celebrated her marriage in Warsaw to R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, her distant cousin, both descendants of the Tzemach Tzedek (1789-1866) the third Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch - whose name was Menachem Mendel and whose wife’s name was Chaya-Mushka (daughter of the Mittler Rebbe, d. 1860).

