Great eulogy upon the death of the rabbi, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Ettinger, leader of the Warsaw community, by his relative, Rabbi Shmuel Yosef HaLevi Landau, Av Beit Din Kempen, author of Kur HaBechina, son of Rabbi Yisrael Yonah HaLevi Landau, author of Meon HaBerachot.
Specifications: 16 leaves. 22 cm. Two title pages.
Unique features: Very rare.
Background: The deceased, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Ettinger, merited to be both a proficient Torah scholar and very wealthy. The author died at a young age, just 37 years old, right after this work was printed, on the 13th of Kislev, 1837. Refer to this work, leaf 5b and Nachlat Olamim (Warsaw, 1882), p. 17.
Condition: Fine. The first leaves are loose. Simple binding.
Eulogy for the famed Rabbi Shaul Zelig HaKohen, Av Beit Din of Dvinsk, author of Teshuvot L’Shoel, by Rabbi Avraham Tzadok Bogin, Av Beit Din of Druja.
Specifications: 36 pages, 17 cm. Original jacket title page.
Unique features: Very rare. Not listed by Vinograd-Rosenfeld.
Condition: Very fine, other than the simple binding which is in disrepair.
Words of mussar in Yiddish, to inspire a person to fufill the mitzvos according to halacha and to act with worthy character traits, by Rabbi Yitzchak son of Elyakim of Posen, with the addition of Lev Chachamim by Rabbi Yaakov Arbich Madpis.
Specifications: [2], 102 leaves. 29 cm. Quality paper. Colored edges.
Unique features: Relatively very fine condition for a practical work. The book was enthusiastically received by all strata of the nation and was very popular. This is the second edition that integrates the main work with the Lev Chacham.
Condition: Very fine. Blemish to the margins of the last leaf.
Discourses and behaviors of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel ztz”l. Published on occasion in Slobodka by his son-in-law, Rabbi Eizik Sher and Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski.
Specifications: 12: 22: 12 pages. 20 cm. Booklets: 1, 2, 3.
Content: Three booklets with five discourses and other articles regarding the “Alter of Slobodka” and his behaviors. Altogether five booklets were printed.
Unique features: All with original jackets.
Condition: Very fine, other than the jacket of booklet 1.
A translation of Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Sefer HaMiddot L’Naarim, by David Zamosc.
Specifications: [12], 248 pages. 16 cm. First edition.
Unique Features: The book was originally written in German and is translated here into Hebrew and Yiddish. This is one of Zamosc’s early works.
Two title pages, the first in German, with pleasant engravings on both of them.
Condition: Very fine, except for slight blemishes on the German title page.
Work consisting of four “shearim”: Sha’ar HaMikvah, Sha’ar HaMatbeot, Sha’ar Aggada and Sha’ar Halacha, authored by Rabbi Neta Reichenberger of Schwabach, who studied at the Beit Medrash in Hechingen.
Specifications: [4] leaves, 30 pages. 16 cm. First edition.
Unique features: Includes calculations of the measurements of a mikva, weights and measures. Two short handwritten glosses.
Condition: Very fine.
Moreh Nevuchim L’Rambam, translated in the eay, clean language of the mishnah by the famed Mendel Lapin, author of Cheshbon HaNefesh.
Specifications: [2], 75: 13, [3] leaves. 22 cm.
Unique features: Like-new condition. First edition. Leaf 57 bears a lengthy gloss on both sides of the leaf.
Content: The translation includes the first section of the work, until chapter 72.
Condition: Excellent. New binding.
Designating the Hebrew calendar, times of the “moldot” and “tekufot,” by R’ Eleizer Belin, with supplements.
Specifications: [2] 40 leaves, 18 cm.
Unique features: Title page illustration of Moses and Aaron and a sketch of the solar system and signs of the zodiac. Many charts are printed in the work, including two sketches of palms with text and four large sketches of circles within each other, to help calculate the calendar. Complete work, including all sketches.
Condition: Fine-very fine. New, half-leather binding. Minimal worming holes on the last leaf.
Comprehensive work regarding the upper spheres – the zodaic etc, and the “small world,” the human body, and all topics of illnesses and cures, including the wisdom of surgery, by Rabbi Tuvia Rofei.
Specifications: [6], 158 leaves. 22 cm. Three title pages, author’s portrait, first edition.
Unique features: Complete copy; with all the introductory leaves, poems, indexes, sketches and illustrations. Prominent approbations. This is considered the first Jewish book of medicine to be printed. It features unique content and an unusually large number of interesting illustrations. The back of the title page features a portrait of the author when he was 48-years-old. Dozens of sketches throughout the work. Leaf 106 features a unique sketch of the human body. Leaves 27-29 are titled “Zichron L’Vnei Yisrael,” and include the episode of Shabtai Zvi and the interrogation of Natan of Gaza by the rabbis of Venice. The last leaf features the approval of the censor of Padua, in Italian.Owner signature: Avraham Chaim Finzi of Ferrara … and others.
Background: Rabbi Tuvia HaRofei studied medicine in the University of Padua. There he met non-Jews and debated with them about religon and belief and heard the negative things they said about Judaism and the Jews. He authored this work to show the nations that even though the Jewish Nation is in exile, they were also endowed with many wisdoms.
Condition: Very fine. Professional repair to title page. Minimal aging stains. Simple binding.
An argument on topics of faith and a response to the Christians’ questions on the Bible, written in the form of a conversation and debate between a Jew and a Christian. By Rabbi Yitzchak Lupis.
Specifications: [6], 108 leaves. 24 cm. First edition.
Unique Features: The work was written some hundred and fifty years before its publication, and was in the Altaras family genizah until the philanthropist Rabbi Yitzchak Altaras published it in order to fulfill ‘Know what to respond to a heretic’.
Condition: Very fine. A few aging stains. Original binding.
Tenets of natural sciences. HaMenucha V’Hatenuah by Zvi Hirsch Rabinowitz. Replete with woodcut engravings.
Specifications: [1], 408 XXIV, [1] page, 19 cm.
Unique features: Throughout the work, there are 605 woodcut illustrations about nature and its branches. The illustrations were made with a unique technique, with an entirely black background. The book was authorized by ministers and professors of the emperor Yarom Hodu’s university.
Content: Additional title pages in Russian and German.
Condition: Very fine. Thick paper. Red edges. Minimal aging stains. Original binding.
Novellae on the Talmud and many elucidations of Talmudical ideas regarding measurements and astronomy that are difficult to understand, by Rabbi Yisrael Segal of Zamość.
Specifications: [1], 58, [1] leaves. 33 cm.
Subject: Novellae and elucidations about difficulties in the Talmud related to measurements and astronomy.
Unique features: Leaf 3a features a letter from Rabbi Yoel Baal Shem of Zamość, the author’s friend.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains.