Large & Interesting Collection of Antique Seforim, 1692-1885. Signatures and Stamps.

Large & Interesting Collection of Antique Seforim, 1692-1885. Signatures and Stamps.

1. Sefer Zahav Shiba (Gold of Old Age), a treatise on the language of the Talmud and the Tosafot related to Aggadah. Written by Rabbi Nissim ben Avraham Algazi.

 

Fürth, 1692. Illustrated title page with woodcut engraving.

The author Rabbi Nissim ben Avraham Algazi was born in Bursa, Turkey, in the year 1610. He moved to Jerusalem, where he served as a Dayan, and in 1646 returned to Turkey, heading a yeshiva in Izmir. He was one of the leaders fighting against Sabbateanism, forcing him to leave Turkey. He returned to Jerusalem and was one of the scholars of the "Beit Yaakov" yeshiva, founded by Rabbi Yaakov Hagiz. He authored numerous works, including Shema Shlomo, Me'ulefet Sapirim, Lechem Satarim, and more.

   

Antique signature on the title page "Hakatan Uri HaKohen..."

2. Sefer Yesod - Chiddushei HaRashba .  Metz, 1765 – First edition.

Chiddushim  of the Rashba on Tractate Ketubot.  Metz, 1765 – First edition. Printed by Moshe Mei. These novellae are actually those of the Ramban, mistakenly attributed to the Rashba. The sefer also includes, for the first time, glosses on the Tur, Even HaEzer, by the great Rabbi, the Tosafot Yom Tov. Rabbinic endorsements from Metz, Pfeddersheim, Ansbach, and Worms.

Stefansky Sifrei Yesod, no. 50.

Antique  signature: Yonah Goldstern ben Yosef, Parnas U’Manhig, Lissa.

3. Sefer Toldot Noach sermons by Rabbi Noach Halterach of Lissa.

 Warsaw, 1830. First edition.

Signatures of Rabbi Moshe Gabriel of Lissa. Rabbi Moshe Gabriel hailed from Lissa, and by 1820, he was in Grójec (as noted in the signatures section of Yad HaChazakah). He served as Rabbi of Neustadt, and later as Rabbi of Chodziej, in the Poznań region, where he succeeded Rabbi Gedaliah Lipschitz, father of Rabbi Yisrael Lipschitz, author of Tiferet Yisrael on the Mishnah. Rabbi Moshe Gabriel also gave an endorsement for Tehillim with the commentary Arugat HaBosem and Be'er Mayim (Königsberg, 1856).

4. Sefer Kitzur Chovot HaLevavot, with Yiddish translation. Józefów, 1845.

5. Sefer Torat Chovot HaLevavot by Rabbi Bahya the Spaniard, with the commentary Pat Lechem, in two parts.

Suwałki, 1863. Rare!

6. Sefer Gal Naul on Tractate Megillah, Breslau, 1866.  By  Rabbi Yosef Messing, Rabbi of Gastin.

With a letter from Sir Moses Montefiore.

7. Sefer Or HaShanim on the 613 commandments, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Epstein, Rabbi of Königsberg, author of Pardes. Vilna, 1869.

8. Sefer Or HaTzvi, "illuminating the generation with explanations of several verses in the Bible, many sayings of our Sages in the Talmud and Midrashim, and ethical teachings, " by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Berles [son of R. Leib Sofer] of Brisk.

 

Lublin, 1875. First edition.

9. Sefer Parshat Derachim Zuta,   Chasidut, by the holy Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Yalish.

 

 Kraków, 1885. First edition.

With endorsements from the holy Rebbi David Halberstam of Krashanov and theGaon Rabbi Akiva Kornitzer

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Self-dedication from Rabbi Avraham Waldman of Satmar, who received the book from his father in 1903.

Stamp: Avraham Alexander Blum.

10. Sefer Tiferet Menachem, Piotrków, 1909.

Ownership inscriptions of Rabbi Avraham Menachem Rabinowitz.

Signature: Elimelech ben T''M Lipschitz.

Various sizes and conditions. Overall condition is good.