Auction No. 098
Holy books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical & Admors letters, Americana & Judiaca
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Prayer book per the Karaite customs, printed and arranged on nice paper, two sections.
Content: Section one: Prayers for the weekday, Rosh Chodesh, Purim, four fast days, elegies, Shabbat, tammuz, mourning, circumcision, marriage ceremony and the days of mercy. Vilna, 1868. By Nissan Yehonatan Moschwitz and Zerach Chortzneko of Azar.
Specifications: 4, 176 pages. 21 cm.
Section two: Prayers for all the Shabbatot of the year with all their instructions and issues. Odessa, 1872. By Zerach Chortzneko and Yitzchak Baum.
Specifications: [4], 342 pages. 21 cm.
Unique features: Very rare. The last pages features a memorial for the souls of prominent Karaite sages, and a prayer for the welfare of the monarchy.
Condition: Very fine-excellent. Two sections bound together. Minimal aging stains.
Sefer HaMitzvot according to the Karaites, by Eliyahu Bašyazi, "the last posek of our karaite brethren..."
Specifications: [7], 228 leaves. 26 cm. 2 folded charts regarding sanctifying the new month. Third edition.
Unique features: The charts are very rare. Very nice copy.
Content: The first pages feature a large list of members of the Karaite community in Russian cities who pre-paid for the work.
Condition: Excellent.
The Karaite sages' response to Yaakov Trigland's questions, on the essence of the Karaim, and a few more small works.
Specifications: [4], 36, [1] leaves. 24 cm.
Unique Features: Printed on blueish paper. Orach Tzadikim from page 16-27 with a special title page, including an explanation of the division of the Rabbis and the Karaites, with a very important bibliographical list of the Karaite works. Pages 28-33 with a special title page "Kitzur Inyan HaShechita", from Aderet Eliyahu, written by Rabbi Eliyahu Bašyazi, abridged by Yosef HaTurki. On pages 34-36 with a special title page "Hilchot Shechita" by Yisrael HaMaaravi, written in Cairo in 1602.
Condition: Very fine-excellent.
Laws of the intent of the commandments of the Torah and their details, according to the Karaites, by Rabbi Aharon ben Rabbi Eliyahu of Nicomedia, author of Etz HaChaim and Keter Torah.
Specifications: [3], 2-197 leaves. 26 cm.
Unique features: Rare in such fine condition. Published for the first time, revised and proofread according to various manuscript texts by Yehuda Savaskan.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains. Simple binding.
Conscise Philosophical Karaite work, by Yosef Sapak.
Specifications: [5], 40, [2] pages. 20 cm. Only edition.
Unique features: 3 title pages in addition to the original jacket title page that was printed on green paper. The back of the green jacket features a Russian title page in Cyrllic letters.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains.
Laws of Hebrew grammar by Mordechai Sultanski the Karaite, son of Yosef of Lutzk.
Specifications: 226 leaves. 20 cm. Only edition.
Unique features: Nice copy. Rubbed, green leather binding with embossed owner's name: Avraham son of Moshe Gami Sisman (Sisman was a prominent Karaite family name).
Condition: Very fine-excellent. Minimal aging stains. Rubbed leather binding.
Short essay regarding the Karaites, with a few words about sects in general, that sprung up amongst the Jewish Nation from the start of the Second Temple and onwards, by Isaac Baer Levinsohn.
Specifications: 35, [1] pages. 19 cm. First edition.
Unique features: The last page features a list of Levinsohn's writings that still remained in manuscript form.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains. Simple binding.