Auction 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Apr 4, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

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 most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


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 88:

(ITALY, 1561).

Zevach Pesach, With commentary by Isaac ...


Start price:
$ 5,000
Estimated price :
$6,000 - $8,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
04/04/2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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(ITALY, 1561).

Zevach Pesach, With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and notes of the printer, Jacob Marcaria. With laws and customs of both Sephardim and Aschkenazim.


Few marginal comments in an early hand.


ff. (34). Opening few leaves laid to size, few stains, stamp removed, censors signatures (including one in Hebrew). Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio.


Yudlov 22; Yerushalmi pl. 27.

Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria, 1561.


THE ONLY HAGADAH PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1561. THE ONLY HAGADAH PUBLISHED IN RIVA DI TRENTO. Riva di Trento is a small northern Italian town situated alongside Lake Garda. Jacob Marcaria was a physician-scholar who published books covering all branches of Jewish scholarship. He often added lucid and erudite prefaces of his own appended to the Hebrew works he issued. This Hagadah contains not only a short preface by Marcaria, but also seven pages of his own commentary to the Seder. According to Yudlov, Marcaria’s additional commentary has never been republished.