Auction No. 098
Holy books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical & Admors letters, Americana & Judiaca
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A catalog of manuscripts from the Elkan Nathan Adler collection, published by the Cambridge University printing press.
Specifications: [XII], 228 leaves, [52] leaves, photograph plates. 19x28 cm.
Condition: Very fine-excellent. The pages are not cut at the top of the leaves in a significant part of the book. Simple binding.
Information about synagogues in Berlin built between 1909-1912, with 12 additional photographs of the synagogues.
Specifications: [16] paper leaves. 19x25 cm.
Unique Features: The last nine leaves contain photographs of the synagogues. The copy before us has 16 leaves, while the copy in the National Library has only 14.
Condition: Very fine. Cardboard binding. Fold marks.
Bibliographical description and information about manuscripts and rare books which make up part of the Mitchell M. Kaplan collection.
Specifications: [4], 316 pages. 21x27 cm.
Unique Features: An impressive collection of information about old writings which were written over a period of more than 400 years. Contains many photocopies of title pages, and indexes of the book names in Hebrew and English.
Condition: Excellent. Original binding.
Collection of Maimonides' writings in a number of translations. Oxford, 1655.
Specifications: Two sections with separate title pages. [20], 355, [2], 436, [28] pages. Paper. 19 cm. Judeo-Arabic, Latin. Mispaginated. Complete.
Unique features: Study of Maimonides' Torah in a large assortment of languages. Published in England, even before the Jews were allowed to return and live there.
Porta Mosis [Moses' Gate]. Peirush HaMishnah written by Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon [Maimonides] in its original language, Arabic in Hebrew letters. With Latin translation on facing columns by Edward Pocock (1604-1691). Oxford, 1654-1655.
This was the first of the Rambam's Arabic writing to be published in its original language. This was also the first publication of the Oral Torah and its commentary, in Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew letters). Written with much punctiliousness, relevant till today. Based on Maimonides' own manuscript that translator Edward Pocock found in Aleppo, Syria. The manuscript is currently located in the Bodleian library.
The book includes all Maimonides' introductions for the six 'sedarim' of the Mishnah in addition to his commentary on Ethics of the Fathers and the Shemonah Perakim L'Rambam .
Background: Edward Pocock was a philologist, Professor of Semitic languages at Oxford and one of the foremost European, non-Jewish scholars of his time. He founded the basis for future Judeo-Arabic studies. Refer to Peamim, p. 2004, p. 7-13 regarding this book and its author.
Condition: Fine. The first leaves are loose. Small hole in the side that goes through the first 140 pages. Two attached leaves are detached from the book. Aging stains. Antiquated parchment binding with tear in spine.
Pictures of the sages with their biographies, philosophies, activities and influence on the public, arranged by Avigdor Katzburg.
Specifications: [59] pages, [17] picture plates. 16 cm.
Unique features: With pictures of 17 rabbis - primarily Hungarian- including: Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Glick, Rabbi Simcha Bunem Sofer, Rabbi Koppel Charif; Rabbi Yeshaya Zilberstein, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky. Includes a letter from Rabbi Dovid Zvi Katzburg, the father's author, declaring that there are no religious reasons to refrain from taking photographs. Approbation from Rabbi Koppel Reich.
Condition: Fine. Brittle paper. Original, printed binding with blemished spine.
Zimrat Ha'Aretz. A description of the siege of Tiberias in the years 1742-1743, the rescue of the city and the actions of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia. With poems in honor of Tiberias and in honor of the Mishnaic and Talmudic sages buried there, by Rabbi Yaakov Birav.
Specifications: 28 leaves, 20 cm. Thick paper.
Unique Features: An uncommon book. Added to this edition is a long introduction in the form of a poem by Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Abulafia, a descendant of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia. Most of the poems and songs are in Ladino.
Condition: Very fine. Original slightly worn semi-leather binding.
Ausführliches Kochbuch für die einfache und feine jüdische Küche, unter Berücksichtigung aller rituellen Vorschiften by Marie Elsasser.
Specifications: 16, 926, VII pages, 22 cm. German. First edition.
Unique features: Comprehensive work with 3759 recipes. The first edition of this classic cookbook, which was later reprinted in many editions. Not in the National Library.
Condition: Very fine. The book was re-bound, and the spine of the original binding was pasted on top of the new one.