Auction 3 Special and Rare Items
Jun 18, 2018 (Your local time)
Israel
 22 HaNassi HaShishi St, Jerusalem
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LOT 39:

A Volume of Rare Books (Including Hassidic Books) – Signature of Rabbi Yeshaya Kerestirer with a Handwritten Gloss

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A volume containing three books:
Maimonides' Missives and Respona. Warsaw. At its end, Maimonides' biography was printed. 96 pp.
Sefer Nechmad by the Mabit. Munkatch, 1905. 27 leaves.
Hakdamat Likuteu Torah Ve'Ha'Shas. Munkatch, 1911. A Hassidic composition by the Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Meir Weiss of Spinka.
Before u sis the personal copy of the Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestirer.
On the title page of Maimonides' Responsa appears a pencil signature, in a foreign labguage, of Rabbi Yeshaya Kerestirer!
On the upper part of the title page, an ownership inscription indicating the book belongs to Rabbi Yeshaya Kerestirer. Most of the inscription is cut off.
In addition, Rabbi Yeshaya's purple stamp appears in the book.
On the margins of one of the leaves of Maimonides' Responsa appears a scholarly gloss, maybe handwritten by Rabbi Yeshaya.
On leaf 17, a pencil notation on the side, beside the story about Rabbi Yehuda Zvi of Stratyn.
20 cm.
Condition: Good. Old, supported binding.

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