Bidspirit auctions | Moreshet Auction Feb 16, 2022

Moreshet, Feb 16, 2022. 286 lots.

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Lots in this catalog (286)

• Lot 001: Tur Yoreh De’ah—Slavita 1802. Edition published by the Admor HaZaken, Baal HaTanya.
• Lot 002: Mishnayot Seder Taharot—printed by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapira. Zhitomir 1862.
• Lot 003: Masechet Sanhedrin and the Rif—Shapira printing, Zhitomir 1859.
• Lot 004: Sefer Get Pashut, published by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of Zhitomir. Sadilkov 1833.
• Lot 005: Menorat HaMaor, with commentary Nefesh Yehuda, second section—printed by Shapira, Zhitomir 1852.
• Lot 006: Lot of books from the Shapira printings of Slavita and Zhitomir—partially missing copies.
• Lot 007: Rare book: Yismach Moshe by Rabbi Moshe de Boshal (Bostal). First edition, Izmir 1675. Copy with yichus.
• Lot 008: Ruach David and Nishmat David—Rabbi David di Medina. Only edition, Salonika 1747.
• Lot 009: Psalms with the commentary “Me’ata Tehilla” by the kabbalist Rabbi Yaakov Rokeach, a sage of Tripoli. First edition,
• Lot 010: Ladino: Leil Shimurim, a work for the eve of a bris. Vienna 1819.
• Lot 011: . Ladino: Zechut u’Mishor by Rabbi Yitzhak Perachi. Salonika 1868.
• Lot 012: Ladino – Shivchei Maharhav – Biography of Rabbi Chaim Vittel. Salonika 1892.
• Lot 013: Ladino: Libro de Instruction Religiosa – Rabbi Yaakov Kabuli. Izmir 1910.
• Lot 014: Haftarah for the 8th Day of Pesach with Ladino translation. Izmir, 1913(?)
• Lot 015: Yemenite printing: Sefer Chupat Chatanim, shirot v’tishbachot. Aden 1925.
• Lot 016: Collection of songs and other rare items from Moroccan printings.
• Lot 017: Imrot Tehorot HaKadmon with additions by the Aderet. Jerusalem 1903.
• Lot 018: Polemical pamphlet Tomat Yesharim on the sale of etrogim (a codephrase) to the Chabad Kollel. Jerusalem 1913.
• Lot 019: Sefer Tzav’at Moshe by Rabbeinu HaChatam Sofer—Jerusalem 1924.
• Lot 020: Michtav Galui—a pamphlet by Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Harlap. Jerusalem 1918.
• Lot 021: Lot of booklets on shmita (some rare). 1903-1959.
• Lot 022: Rare: Jewish calendar booklet for 10 years—Jerusalem 1890.
• Lot 023: Almanac HaGeulah v’HaTechiya, 1932, with addresses of institutions and businesses. Jerusalem 1932.
• Lot 024: Collection of calendars, pocket format. Jerusalem 1926 and onward.
• Lot 025: Collection of bibliographic booklets, printed items, and invitations, collected by Yitzhak Yudlov.
• Lot 026: Rare: Sefer “Shinui Nischa’ot v’Girsaot L’Sefer Mishneh Torah”—Frankfurt, 1890. With facsimile leaf from a manuscript.
• Lot 027: Akeidat Yitzhak—Venice 1565. Title page with black and red ink.
• Lot 028: Sefer Yesod: Kli Yakar on the First Prophets—Rabbi Shmuel Laniado. First edition, Venice 1603.
• Lot 029: Tzida LaDerech by Rabbi Issachar bar Eilenburg. Only edition, Prague 1623.
• Lot 030: Amudeha Shiv’ah—Rabbi Betzalel of Kovrin. Prague 1674.
• Lot 031: Rare, never appeared at auction: Nachalat Binyamin—first edition, Amsterdam 1682.
• Lot 032: Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, pocket format. Amsterdam 1698 (“Nachat”). Partially missing copy.
• Lot 033: Maleh Ratzon on the Shas—Rabbi Avraham Naftali Hirsch HaLevi Spitz. Frankfurt-am-Mein, 1710.
• Lot 034: . Zeh Yinachamu on the Mechilta, first edition—Amsterdam 1712,
• Lot 035: Shut Mayim Rabim with the rare approbations page. First edition, from the author’s lifetime. Amsterdam 1737.
• Lot 036: Sefer Beit David, a commentary on the Mishnayot by Rabbi David Chaim Corinaldi – first edition, Amsterdam 1738-39.
• Lot 037: Rare: Shechitot and Bedikot by Rabbi Yaakov Weil. Amsterdam 1745.
• Lot 038: Meginei Aretz, handsome copy. Amsterdam 1754.
• Lot 039: Volume of Talmud Bavli Sulzbach—antique, luxurious leather binding. Sulzbach 1767.
• Lot 040: First edition of Aspaklariya HaMeira by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horwitz. Furth 1776.
• Lot 041: Midrash Rabot—Amsterdam 1777
• Lot 042: Rare, not seen at auction: Sefer Meir Nativ (a complement to Mesoret HaShas)—first edition, Altona 1793.
• Lot 043: Rare: Milchamot Hashem and Binah Le’Itim from the Asarah Ma’amarot. First edition, London 1794.
• Lot 044: Sefer LeDavid Emet by HaChida. Second edition, in which is printed for the first time “Torat HaShlamim”. Livorno 1796.
• Lot 045: Shnei Luchot HaBrit. Ostraha edition, 1806. With approbation of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev.
• Lot 046: Maamar Kodesh Hilulim—polemic on issues of Emunah. Amsterdam 1818.
• Lot 047: Sefer Yesod v’Shoresh HaAvodah, with maps. Warsaw 1814.
• Lot 048: Masechet Avot with the commentary Derech Chaim by the Maharal of Prague. Warsaw 1833. Pretty copy with wide margins.
• Lot 049: Sefer Beit Yitzhak including Shaar HaKavuah, Shaar HaSfikos, by Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Chaver. First edition,
• Lot 050: Ancient geniuses answer book, Berlin Tr"h - First edition.
• Lot 051: Shut Maharam Mintz, Lemberg 1851. Copy owned by rabbis of the Bamberger family.
• Lot 052: Rare: Torat Gittin and Mekor Chaim by Rabbeinu Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lissa—Lemberg 1857 (approx.).
• Lot 053: Complete, handsome set in pretty bindings: Five Books of Torah with Nachal Kedumim of HaChida. Vienna 1857.
• Lot 054: Midrash Sochar Tov with the commentary of the son-in-law of the Maharal of Prague. Lemberg 1861.
• Lot 055: Meginei Aretz, Shulchan Aruch Orech Hayyim—Johannesburg, 1862. First edition of Rabbi Akiva Eiger’s glosses.
• Lot 056: Sefer Minchas Ani by the gaon author of the Aruch LaNer. First edition, Altona 1873.
• Lot 057: Beit Aharon, Gittin Rulings, first edition—Lemberg 1876.
• Lot 058: First edition of the book Ohalei Shem by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. Ungvar 1878.
• Lot 059: Set of the Talmud Bavli. Warsaw 1878. Continuation of the rare Stettin printing.
• Lot 060: Complete set of the Talmud Bavli, Vilna edition. Mostly on white paper. Ram Widow and Brothers, Vilna 1890-1897.
• Lot 061: Complete set of the Talmud Bavli in one volume – New York, 1955.
• Lot 062: Americana: Sefer Mikveh Yisrael—first edition, Chicago 1888.
• Lot 063: Americana: Shut Ohel Yosef by Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Fried. One of the earliest Shut books printed in the United States.
• Lot 064: Americana: Polemic work, Hilchata Rabata d’Shabata. On carrying on shabbos in New York. Rabbi Yehuda David Bernstein.
• Lot 065: Never appeared at auction—the Rambam by Avraham Kahane, Przmyslan 1935.
• Lot 066: Rich collection of religious texts in German
• Lot 067: Lot of 4 small sets of Chumash.
• Lot 068: Sefer Yesod: Pnei Yehoshua, first and fourth sections. First edition for the fourth section;
• Lot 069: Sefer Yesod: first edition of the work Ohel Yaakov by the Maggid of Dubna. Jozefof 1830.
• Lot 070: Sefer Yesod: First edition of the Gra’s exegesis on the Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat. Koenigsberg 1855.
• Lot 071: Rare: Booklet Keren Torah from Agudas Yisrael. Vienna 1925.
• Lot 072: Volume with issues of Darkenu by the World Agudas Yisrael, starting with the first issue. Warsaw 1934-36
• Lot 073: MiKnaseha L’Knaseha – World Histadrut Agudas Yisrael – Jerusalem, 1954.
• Lot 074: Rare: HaTor periodical. Weekly periodical of the Mizrahi movement. Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon). Jerusalem 1923
• Lot 075: Volume of newspapers for children “Yalduteinu”—Merkaz Horev, Vilna 1939
• Lot 076: Collection of issues of “Nerot Shabbat”—Unaffiliated Shabbat pamphlet. 4th Volume, Adar 1946-47
• Lot 077: Rare: Volume with the first issues of the weekly periodical Tvunah, edited by Rabbi Yisrael Zissel Devortz.
• Lot 078: First booklet of the monthly periodical Knesset Yisrael by students of Slobodka. Vilna 1930
• Lot 079: Otzer Neginot Yisrael (5 volumes), by Avraham Zvi Edelson. Jerusalem/Berlin/Vienna, 1922-1928. With musical notes.
• Lot 080: Rare: collection of stories from the 19th century. By Nachum Meir Sheikevitch. Warsaw 1881
• Lot 081: Two comic booklets by Avraham Kotlier of Cleveland, Ohio. Parodies of Jewish life in the US. Warsaw 1898
• Lot 082: Polemic – Chazon LaMoed – Drashot against the Bundists. Bialystock 1923
• Lot 083: Never appeared at auction—In Tol fun Taut, by Chaim Lieberman. New York 1939.
• Lot 084: Sheerit HaPlita – the first booklet of the periodical “Fun Letzten Churban”. Munich, August 1946
• Lot 085: Tamim Poalo, answers to questions of faith after the Shoah. Only edition, Jerusalem 1947
• Lot 086: Set of Chumash Or HaChaim with prayers. Sheerit HaPlita, Fernwald 1947
• Lot 087: Heter Agunah from the Shoah, signed by Rabbi Yisrael Weltz and Hungarian rabbis. Budapest 1949
• Lot 088: Letter handwritten and signed by the famous artist Hermann Struck. 1936.
• Lot 089: Sefer Eretz Yisrael, with maps. Yisrael Belkind, New York 1919.
• Lot 090: Sefer HaYovel of the Talmud Torah School for Girls in Jerusalem, dedication signed by the founder Channah Schpitzer.
• Lot 091: Rare: Seder Tefillah for the success of the “Round Table Committee”. London 1939
• Lot 092: Lot of interesting and unique items from the estate of a British soldier. World War II, 1940s
• Lot 093: HaChazit HaDatit HaMeuchedet—propaganda booklet with drashot from Jewish sages. Israel, 1949 (approx)
• Lot 094: Agudat Communistim Yisraelim Haredim – unknown piece of ephemera, not in the National Library
• Lot 095: “Yiddische Künstler” – books on Jewish artists in Yiddish. Warsaw/New York,
• Lot 096: Wonderful portfolio of works by the well-known artist Moritz Oppenheim. 1980s
• Lot 097: Oil on canvas – Admor’s blessing. Konstantin Szewczenko, signed
• Lot 098: Oil on canvas – “and you shall tell your son” - Konstantin Szewczenko, signed
• Lot 099: Oil on canvas – “The Scribe’s Inkwell” - Konstantin Szewczenko, signed
• Lot 100: Oil on canvas – an Admor wrapped in his tallis. Original, signed
• Lot 101: Oil on canvas – portrait of the Chatam Sofer. Signed, original
• Lot 102: Oil on canvas – portrait of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar. Signed, original
• Lot 103: A Mizrahi sage – oil painting on wood pallet. Especially pretty, signed original
• Lot 104: Portrait, David Levkovsky, signed
• Lot 105: Portrait, David Levkovsky, signed
• Lot 106: Mother and Child with Hunger, David Levkovsky, signed
• Lot 107: Oil on wood pallet – a grandmother at the door. Signed, original
• Lot 108: Oil on canvas, abstract. “Israel’s skies”. Signed, original
• Lot 109: Old Tzfat – Leo Kahn, signed
• Lot 110: Old Tzfat at night – Henya Teichman, signed
• Lot 111: Oil on canvas, “Beit HaMikdash” – Albert Goldman, signed.
• Lot 112: Oil on canvas, “A Village Orchard” – Albert Goldman, signed.
• Lot 113: Metal sculpture of a cat in the night. Stamped by David Gerstein.
• Lot 114: Large, artistically done blessing for the home in sofer script on parchment
• Lot 115: A sculpture of an almost sooty Sefer Torah – copper on marble, signed
• Lot 116: Decorated plate, Poland, end of the 19th century.
• Lot 117: Set of cupholders, stamped silver. Russia, 20th century.
• Lot 118: State medal, silver 925, “Rashi”, to mark 900 years since his death. 2005
• Lot 119: Collection of Israeli medallions, mostly silver. 1967-1993.
• Lot 120: Antique bronze lamp for a synagogue
• Lot 121: A silver yad for a sefer torah – Ukraine, 19th century.
• Lot 122: Velvet covering for a Sefer Torah. Uncommon work
• Lot 123: Artistic megillat esther on parchment with colorful illustrations. Kosher, very luxurious
• Lot 124: Rare: a mezuzah in a case made from gvil parchment following the shita of Maran the Ben Ish Hai.
• Lot 125: Miniature pair of tefillin in a printed cloth case, especially rare – Prague,
• Lot 126: Large collection of pairs of tefillin with cases, parshiyot, mezuzot, some antiques.
• Lot 127: Segulah: Handsome silver cup with a base featuring an engraving of Jerusalem. Stamped.
• Lot 128: Unique and exciting: silver cup with an embossing of a Jewish wedding. Stamped
• Lot 129: Stamped silver kiddush cup – Germany, beginning of the 20th century.
• Lot 130: Stamped silver kiddush cup. Russia, end of 19th century
• Lot 131: Large, impressive candlesticks. Stamped silver. Czechoslovakia, beginning of the 20th century.
• Lot 132: Pair of cast bronze candlesticks for Shabbat candles
• Lot 133: Pair of cast bronze candlesticks—Jewish artwork, Europe, beginning of the 20th century
• Lot 134: Bronze Channukiyah/menorah for Shabbat and Channukah candles. Poland, 19th century.
• Lot 135: Antique bronze channukiyah, Polish style
• Lot 136: Original copper channukiyah. Israel, 1950s
• Lot 137: Handsome besamim tower. Stamped silver
• Lot 138: Fortress-like besamim tower. Stamped silver
• Lot 139: Pesach Haggadah with the exegesis “HaMarbeh LaSefer” by Rabbi Yedidya Tia Weil. Karlsruhe 1791.
• Lot 140: Rare: Pesach Haggadah in German translation. Berlin, beginning of the 20th century.
• Lot 141: Pesach Haggadah with English translation, pocket format. Canvas binding with an illustration of the Temple’s location.
• Lot 142: Lot of important Chassidic Pesach Haggadot.
• Lot 143: Sefer Techinot Taharat HaNefesh (rare). First (only?) edition, Amsterdam 1734
• Lot 144: Book of Psalms and Maamadot with Yiddish translation—Russia/Poland, early 19th century, with Kriyat Shma al HaMita
• Lot 145: Siddur Shla “Shaar Shamayim”. Warsaw edition, 1882. Nusach Sfard
• Lot 146: Siddur Rabbi Yaakov of Emdin. Zhitomir, Baksht, 1874. Dozens of handwritten leaves.
• Lot 147: Two important, thick siddurim: Avodat Yisrael, published by Schocken 1837; Machzor Vitri, Nuremberg 1923
• Lot 148: Chassidus: Siddur Beit Yosef, nusach Sfard, Vienna 1933. With divrei torah from Chassidic gedolim
• Lot 149: Siddur Tefillah Yeshara and Keter Nehora, complete, printed at the height of the Shoah. Satmar 1942.
• Lot 150: Siddur Tefilla Yeshara, Berdichev, with important approbations. Williamsburg 1960.