Bidspirit auctions | TAJ-Art Auction 3 - Important Hebrew Books and Manuscripts, Silver Objects and Artworks

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LOT 1: Sefer HaIttur. Venice 1608. First Edition. Signature and Glosses ...

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LOT 2: Sefer HaChinuch by Rabbi Ahron son of Yosef HaLevi of Barcelona. ...

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LOT 3: Torat HaBayit HaAroch by the Rashba. Venice 1608. First Edition. F ...

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LOT 4: Siddur from Amsterdam 1726. Incredible Copy in Original Binding with Clasps. “Seder Tefillot, liturgical poems and songs, for each month and each week” – prayer book for the entire year according to Sephardic custom. The leaf preceding the title page features a copperplate engraving. In its ...

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LOT 5: Rare Prayer Book for the Entire Year Including Psalms with Radak ...

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LOT 6: Prayer Book Not Listed in Bibliographic Records. Amsterdam 1770. ...

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LOT 7: Tikkun Shabbat Prayer Book. Magnificent Copy in Original Box. Amsterdam 1828. Prayer book according to Ashkenazi custom, including all the liturgical poems and the 'Korbanot'. A splendid engraving precedes the title page, adorned in Hebrew "On Shabbat we will always be held before Hashem". ...

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LOT 8: Sefer HaTikunim. Tikunei HaZohar. Belgrade 1851. Magnificent, Splendid Copy. Attributed to the Rashbi. Complete copy in two volumes. Original, magnificent bindings. Tikunei HaZohar is a Kabbalistic composition that is considered a separated entity to the Zohar. It was written in Aramaic and ...

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LOT 9: Toldot Yitzchak by Rabbi Yitzchak son of Rabbi Yosef Caro. ...

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LOT 10: Sefer MaHaril by Rabbi Yaakov son of Moshe HaLevi Moelin. Cremona ...

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LOT 11: Sefer Chizkuni by Rabbi Chizkiya b. Manoach. Cremona 1559. ...

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LOT 12: Sefer Yesod: Tiferet Yisrael by the MaHaral of Prague. Venice 1599. ...

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LOT 13: Torat Moshe by Rabbi Moshe Alshich. Venice 1601. This is one of ...

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LOT 14: Talmud Bavli Tractate Kiddushin. Cracow 1604. Signature, Glosses and Important Corrections. A most rare edition of Tractate Kiddushin. Jewish books printed in Cracow are in general exceedingly rare, as most were burnt and destroyed during Polish pogroms and unrest. Tractate Kiddushin was one ...

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LOT 15: Tractate Bava Metzia with Rashi, Tosafot and Rabbenu Asher. ...

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LOT 16: Knesset HaGedola Orach Chaim. First Edition. Livorno 1658. Copy ...

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LOT 17: Shayarei Knesset HaGedola by Rabbi Chaim Benveniste – Chief Rabbi ...

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LOT 18: Mateh Dan - Second Kuzari. Exceptional copy. London 1714. The author, Rabbi David Nieto, explains his book's title in his introduction: “Mateh Dan – since it is a staff (mateh) of strength and judgement, to hit on the head of the Karaite, followers of Anan and Shaul. I also named the book ...

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LOT 19: Unusual Variant Edition. Chamisha Chumshei Torah, Nevi'im and ...

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LOT 20: Midrash Tanchuma. Prague 1612. Unidentified signatures. Sefer ...

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LOT 21: Sefer Or Ammim, R' Ovadia Sforno. First Edition. Bologna 1537. Impressive and beautiful copy. . The first book printed by the "The Partners, Makers of Silk-work", a printing house that R' Ovadia Sforno himself supported and perhaps founded. Only 22 Hebrew books were printed in the city of ...

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LOT 22: Beurim. Supercommentary to Rashi on the Torah by R' Yisrael Isserlein - author of the 'Trumat HaDeshen'. First edition. Venice 1519. A complete and beautiful copy with several interesting glosses and signatures. An important supercommentary on Rashi, by one of the most influential poskim of ...

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LOT 23: Special Copy: Tehilim and Seder Ma'amadot. Venice 1753 and 1748. ...

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LOT 24: Book of Psalms with Antique Shviti Amulet on Parchment, and Yiddish translation. Amsterdam 1724. Antique Leather Binding with Silver Clasps. Silver clasps marked and dated 1736. Sefer Tehillim with Yiddish translation. Unknown edition. Apparently not in the National Library of Israel. On ...

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LOT 25: Nevi'im and Ketuvim. Leiden 1610. Small pocket edition. Nevi'im ...

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LOT 26: Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim. Berlin 1710-11. Pocket edition. Hebrew ...

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LOT 27: Pocket edition set. Chamisha Chumshei Torah with Haftarot and the ...

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LOT 28: The Famous Venice Haggadah. With many woodcut illustrations, and ...

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LOT 29: Passover Haggadah with a Map of Eretz Israel and Numerous ...

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LOT 30: Responsa of Rabbi Joseph Colon (The Maharik). First Edition. ...

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LOT 31: Responsa of Binyamin Ze’ev. Venice 1539. Signatures and ...

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LOT 32: The First Book Composed after the Talmud: She'iltot DeRav Achai ...

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LOT 33: Sefer Midrash Shmuel. Venice 1579. Sefer Yesod to Masechet Avot. ...

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LOT 34: Sefer Ha-Shorashim by R. David Kimchi. Constantinople 1513. Sefer Ha-Shorashim, the famous composition of Rabbi David ben Yosef ben Kimchi - HaRadak. Constantinople edition. The book is complete and beautiful. Like many incunabula and post-incunabula, the book begins on the second side of ...

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LOT 35: Chazut Kasheah. Sabbioneta 1552. First edition. Authored by the ...

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LOT 36: Book of Halachic Rulings and Letters by Rabbi Yisrael Isserlin. ...

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LOT 37: Sefer Agur by Rabbi Yaakov son of Yehuda Landau. Venice 1547. The ...

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LOT 38: Mevakesh Hashem, R' Shmuel b. Yaakov Chagiz. Single edition. ...

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LOT 39: Devar Shmuel by Rabbi Shmuel Chagiz. Venice 1596. Rabbi Shmuel ...

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LOT 40: Sefer HaLevush by Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe. Complete Set. Venice 1620. ...

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LOT 41: Kabbalah Book Chemdat Yamim for the Entire Year. Venice 1763. ...

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LOT 42: Sefer Yesod: Responsa of the Rashba. First edition. Bologna, 1539. Only 22 Hebrew books were printed in the city of Bologna. This first edition volume of the responsa of R' Shlomo ben Aderet, student of the Ramban, includes index pages that are lacking in many extant copies. Rabbi Shlomo ben ...

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LOT 43: Sefer Kabbalah. Hadrat Kodesh "Adam Sichli". Tiengen 1560. The First Hebrew Book Printed in Tiengen [Waldshut, Germany]. Only 7 Hebrew books were printed in the small town of Tiengen, and this is the first of them. Authored by HaRav Shimon ben Shmuel meTzarfat, who lived in Ashkenaz in the ...

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