Auction No. 100
Rare and special items
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Fifty sequential calendars printed in Vilna-Grodno, between 1810-1860 at "Defus HaShutafim" [the partners' press] and then Romm press.
Specifications: Most measure 10x18.5 cm. The others are smaller.
Content: The format and topics of the calendars changed over the years, but its border was preserved.
Unique features: This unique collection includes fifty years of calendars printed by the same press, bound together originally. It is apparently very unique among collections of calendars extant in the world.
Condition: Fine. All the calendars are bound together originally, however, the binding has fallen into disrepair over the years, and only traces of the spine remain. Tears in solitary leaves. Aging stains.
A magnificent book of regulations of the Ashkenazi congregation in Amsterdam which was used by one of the community's charity collectors. Contains ten printed publications, beginning with the community's first detailed book of regulations, with booklets of other regulations and changes made to the regulations. First half of the 18th century.
Specifications: Contains (as appears in the book):
* Community regulations of the holy Ashkenazi congregation in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, in the Attias printing press, 1737.
[4] 2-33 leaves, 15.5 cm. Yiddish in Tzeina Ure'eina script. Contains 102 clauses, with indexes. On pages 26, 2-27 are the names of 21 important members of the community who authorize the regulations. The regulations are also authorized by the secular authorities. To the best of our knowledge, before us are the first regulations of the Ashkenazi congregation in Amsterdam. Does not appear in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
* The order of the Synagogue according to all customs... Amsterdam, in the Proops printing press, 1759.
9[1] leaves, 15.5 cm. Especially thick paper. Part of the title page was printed in red ink. Contains 54 regulations, with indexes. Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to a copy in the municipal library of New York.
* Ordinatatzia Fun Eli Shtarot V'Ktavim 1708, a folded leaf.
* Regulations for Festive Meals, 1709. For restriction of the expenses of weddings and feasts. A folded leaf.
* Regulations for Festive Meals, 1717. For restriction of the expenses of weddings and feasts. A folded leaf.
* Regulations for Festive Meals, 1722. For restriction of the expenses of weddings and feasts. A folded leaf.
* Ordinatatzia Fun Eli Shtarot V'Ktavim 1731, a folded leaf.
* Ampliatzia on the manner of choosing the Parnasim and Gabbaim. 1737. A single leaf.
* Ampliatzia on the regulations of our community... 1747. Amsterdam in the Proops printing press, 1759.
4 leaves, 15.5 cm. Especially thick paper.
* Ampliatzia Oif Tikkun 43 Mitikkunei Kehilateinu... (Regulations about burial). Amsterdam, in the Proops printing press, 1758.
[2] leaves. 15.5 cm. Thick paper.
Unique Features: The Ashkenazi congregation in Amsterdam was known as an especially orderly and organized congregation. The book of regulations contains 102 detailed regulations. The last regulation [102] contains details of how exactly the regulations can be changed, and indeed, in the changes which appear in the booklets printed after it is mentioned that they were made according to the method established in regulation 102. The regulation booklets were printed for the use of the members of the congregation, and they were printed in a small number of copies, and are therefore rare. Especially uncommon are the single leaves, which contain many regulations.
Original leather binding with magnificent gold embossing. With the name of the 'Charity Collector Reb Yuspa Cohen'. In the center of the front binding is the symbol of the Ashkenazi congregation of Amsterdam, with the depiction of two angels bearing a crown above it. On the back of the binding is the symbol of the Proops the printer, with figures of angels and the crown above it. Blank leaves at the beginning and end of the volume. Gilded page cuts.
Condition: The book's leaves are in very fine condition with slight aging stains. The binding was preserved in the same condition, with the exception of a crack along the entire length of the spine.
Minchat Chinuch, three parts. An extensive commentary on the Sefer HaChinuch by Rabbi [Yosef Babad]. Lemberg, [1869]. First edition.
Specifications: [1] 116: [1], 148 leaves; [2], 105, 4, [3] leaves, 35 cm. A special title page for each part. Includes the 'Minchat Ani' leaves at the end of the book.
Unique Features: The first edition of the well known scholarly book. The book was published anonymously, and as written on the title page: "Written by one of the great and definitive scholars of our times, the holy and pure one, and due to our many sins he concealed his name..." His name appears only in the second edition, which was printed in Lemberg in 1889, some 15 years after the author's death. This first edition is rare.
Background: The author, Rabbi Yosef Babad, was the Rabbi of Ternopil. The book Minchat Chinuch is one of the basic books for those engaged in in-depth Torah study, throughout the Jewish world, to this very day. It has been printed in dozens of editions over the years, and various commentaries were written on it.
Condition: Fine-very fine. Small stickers on the first title page. On page 28 of the first part are tears stuck together with no lack. A few stains. Simple binding with no spine.
Sefer HaZikaron V'Hakabbalah, Sod Hashem, in manuscript form, by Rabbi David di Lida, Av Beit Din of Amsterdam, followed by documentation of approximately 130 children in whose circumcision he participated, as mohel or sandak, 1824-1834.
Specifications: [24] leaves, paper. Of which: [12] leaves of Seder Ha Brit and [5] leaves with the list of circumcisions.
Unique Features: Orderly and pleasant handwriting, including verses, prayers and blessings recited during a circumcision ceremony. Also, a complete diary of activities of a mohel from Rawicz, Ben Zvi Hirsch Segal of Nowe Miasto, who was active between the years 1824-1834.
Condition: Fine. Aging stains. Cardboard binding in a matching box.
Passover Haggada, non-traditional text - kibbutz-style. [c. 1950?]. Unknown haggada.
Specifications: [32] pages. Jacket title page, 16x21.5 cm. Printed by stencil. Hebrew and Dutch. The Haggada opens from left to right. Most of the haggada is in Dutch. Paragraphs in Hebrew from the traditional Haggada text, with modifications, along with many Dutch paragraphs. Many illustrations. Original jacket with print on both its sides, stapled. The haggada was printed on paper of various colors.
Unique features: The Haggada opens with the traditional verse "HaChodesh hazeh lachem..." with the inclusion of "Hayom hayitem l'am" [today you became a nation], followed by the traditional "Ha Lachma Anya" with the text "Hashta anachnu geulei Yisrael" [we are now redeemed in Israel]... The Dutch section includes poems by H.N. Bialik and Nathan Alterman. Page [24] features a "Yizkor" in memory of those killed in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, those that fell protecting the borders of Israel, those murdered in ambush, or those who fell in the enemy's prison or in captivity. "The Jewish Nation should remember all those that fell in the battles for its redemption and in their death commanded us to live!" Page [27] mentions kibbutzim.
Condition: Very fine, other than the back jacket which is detached and has two small holes.
Prayers for the entire year per the Karaite customs. Kale, [1735]. Rare work. Magnificent copy.
Specifications: Section two: 168 leaves. Section three: 56 leaves. 22 cm. Thick paper. Ginzei Yisrael 1839.
Content: The second section of Passover and Shavuot, including Hallel HaGadol, Prayers for Passover (including the interim days and the 7th day of Passover), Song of Songs, Perakim L'Sheva Shabbatot, Prayers for Shavuot, "Melitzat HaMitzvot" (authored by the son of Eliyahu Bašyazi to be recited on the day of Mattan Torah) and the Scroll of Ruth. The third section includes the prayers for the fasts of the 9th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av and the Shabbatot between them, with colophon, dated with the [Hebrew] chronogram "Et HaMelacha" and the names of those that arranged it. These two sections were printed without a title page.
Unique features: Rare work. There are a number of known variants that were apparently compiled from other editions. These are the complete sections, as listed above. The third section is bound before the second. Magnificent copy with deluxe leather binding and endpaper. Gold embossing on the bindng: אליהו בן יוסף גיגית and decorations.
Condition: Very fine.