Auction of Judaica focusing on printed books and handwritten documents and other manuscripts. Divided into categories as follows:
Religious Hebrew books take up the first third of the auction. Highlights are: The first edition of two parts of the Shulchan Aruch (Venice, 1565, Lots 37 and 38) a large fragment of the Tanach Constantinople, 1522 (lot 5); and several Zhitomir / Slavita imprints.
Also appearing are Rabbinic manuscripts and letters from such luminaries as Yehuda Aszod (lot 57); Avraham Azulai (lot 73); Reuven ibn Yahya (lot 78); Moshe Provencal (lot 87); Ya’akov Toledano (lot 90), etc.
The personal silver Kiddush cup of the Ribnitzer Rebbe (lot 56) will of course attract much attention.
The sale highlight is lot 94: An exceptional illuminated manuscript that has never before appeared at public auction. A Passover Hagadah created by the celebrated artistic-scribe Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch, Frankfurt, 1833.
The next section (lots 108-178) represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including Australia, Brazil, China, the German-speaking lands, Gibraltar, Poland, Russia, etc. Also included is much on Holy Land travel, the Land of Israel and Zionism.
The section of Antisemitica / Holocaust includes an exceptional illuminated manuscript (lot 208) devoted to the Polish Jews of Częstochowa. Also of importance is a recently uncovered diary from 1945 of a young Hungarian Jewess who survived Auschwitz (lot 205); and a large archive of personal documents of a German-Jewish doctor who spent the years 1939-47 in Shanghai.
General Judaica (lots 209-245) includes the first edition of Bartolocci’s first ever bibliography of Hebrew books (Rome, 1675, lot 209); a unique copy of the Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography, personally signed by him (lot 226); and the first edition of one of the rarest works of Spanish-Jewish literature, Moses Almosnino’s Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla (Madrid, 1638, lot 231).
The penultimate section of the sale (lot 241-267) are illustrated books and graphic art including several fine books from the magnificent hand of Arthur Szyk, including two original drawings by him (lots 258, 259).
The final section of the sale are fine books that stem from the library of the late Charles Wuorinen, being English & Continental Early Printed Books (lots 268-291).
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LOT 43:
LONDON, YA’AKOV. (Ed.) Shivah Einayim [selected ...
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LONDON, YA’AKOV.
(Ed.) Shivah Einayim [selected novellea and discourses]. FIRST EDITION.
Endpapers utilizing a recent Hebrew printed epithalamium. Title page with signatures of Dr. Michael Sachs and with occasional marginalia within the text.
ff. 4, 68. Upper margin shaved. Modern boards. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Livorno 57.
Livorno, Avraham Meldola, 1745.
Three of the ‘Seven Eyes’ referred to in the title are Ramban’s commentary to portions of Sanhedrin and Makkoth, as well as his Sefer HaZechuth against Ra’avad. The other four ‘Eyes’ are responsa written between R. Yitzchak Aboab, R. di Leon, R. Yitzchak Zayat and R. Nissim Benveneste.
Dr. Michael Sachs (1808-64) served as a rabbi and dayan in Prague and Berlin. He was one of the first of a new generation of German Orthodox rabbis to preach in the German language. In his time Sachs was a noted opponent of Reform, as well as an orator of great ability, so much so that when the nascent separatist Orthodox community of Frankfurt was looking for a spiritual leader, they approached Sachs, before ultimately settling on R. Samson Raphael Hirsch. Unlike Hirsch, Sachs was also a participant in the Jewish Wissenschaft movement, rather than a public critic. Sachs was a historian of Jewish liturgy and published several books on the subject.
The book’s binding utilizes an Italian 18th-century printed wedding poem, in honor of groom Yosef Franco and bride Simha Franco. The author is Ya’akov ben Rabbi Abraham Meldola.