Significant Collection of Antique Seforim Amsterdam & The Hague Imprints, 1708-1798. Most in Luxurious Leather ...

Significant Collection of Antique Seforim Amsterdam & The Hague Imprints, 1708-1798. Most in Luxurious Leather Bindings. Signatures, Annotations, and Inscriptions.

1. Pirkei Rabbi Eliezer – Amsterdam, 1708. Isaac ben Jacob Cordovero.

Dedication of publisher Moses Gomes Mesquita to Moses Abarbanel Aredes in Spanish (f. 2).

Pirkei Rebi Eliezer aims to inculcate ethical teachings for daily life by demonstrating moral values deduced from the Biblical narrative. The works' style waxes poetic, especially concerning the coming of the Messiah, a subject to which many passages are devoted.

2. Sefer Kavanot HaAggadot – Kaphtar U'Ferach – Commentary on Talmudic Aggadah, innovations on the Zohar, and wondrous stories according to Kabbalah, by Rabbi Yaakov Luzzatto, one of the sages of Venice and later of Safed.

Amsterdam, 1709. Includes an endorsement from the rabbis of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities in Amsterdam.

3. Sefer Techillat Chachma – A continuation and commentary on Sefer Keritut by Rabbi Yaakov Hagiz, author of Hilchot Ketanot.

Amsterdam, 1709.

4. Order of Selichot for the Whole Year – According to the custom of Poland, Bohemia, and Austria, organized for easy use without searching.

Antique signature: Yehuda ben Yisrael of blessed memory.

Amsterdam, 1711.

Pages 84-87 include "Selichot composed by Maharam Avraham Kara on the Prague decrees" and "Selichot by Maharam Avraham of Prague son of Avigdor, " originally printed in Prague, 1590. Includes an index of the Selichot.

Contains three handwritten pages listing Selichot, dated 1830-1831.

5. Sefer Likutei HaPardes – Legal rulings and responsa by Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, also known as "Rashi HaKadosh."

Second edition (first printed in 1519) – Amsterdam, 1715.

6. Sefer Brit Yitzchak – A learning guide for reading on the eve of the eighth day before a brit milah, meant to draw forth great kindness and holiness for the newborn child and all involved in the mitzvah.

First edition. Amsterdam, 1729, printed by Yitzchak Leon de Temple.

At the beginning of the sefer is an endorsement from the Sephardic rabbis of Amsterdam, Rabbi David Israel Atias and Rabbi Yitzchak Chaim Di Brito. The second page includes a printed dedication in Portuguese by Rabbi Daniel Ferreira in honor of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Yeshurun.

It was customary in Jewish communities to read passages from the Bible, Talmud, and Midrash according to the Zohar (Lech Lecha 93b) on the night before a brit milah, a practice referred to by Sephardic Jews as "Brit Yitzchak." This is likely the source for the title of this book, the first to bear this name.

7. Sefer Yesod HaNikud – By the grammarian Rabbi Zalman Henna, author of Binat Shlomo.

Only Edition. Amsterdam, 1730.

Important antique annotations.

8. Sefer Chok Yosef – A work on the laws of Passover, the Counting of the Omer, and Shavuot, by Rabbi Yosef Moshe ben Rabbi David of Breslau, son-in-law of the renowned Rabbi Avraham Broda. Includes sections of Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, sections 429-494, with Be’er HaGolah. Additional works by the author include Shoresh Yosef on laws of "migo" and Ketonet Yosef. The title page notes that he is known as "Rosh Yeshiva" and currently residing in Krefeld.

First Edition. Amsterdam, 1730, at the press of Dayan Rabbi Moshe Frankfurt.

Antique signature on the title page.

9. Sefer Shevet Mussar – Matters of morality and fear of God, with a German translation, by Rabbi Eliyahu HaCohen of Izmir.

Amsterdam, 1732, printed by Hertz Levi Rofe.

Antique signatures: Feivel ben Meir Wilstadt, among others.

10. Sefer Beit David, Part II – Commentary on the Mishnah and its commentators by Rabbi David Chaim Corinaldi.

First Edition. Amsterdam, 1739.

11. Sefer Tekhunat HaShamayim – Astronomy to understand the Rambam's laws of Kiddush HaChodesh, by Rabbi Rafael Halevi of Hanover. Includes tables, diagrams, and illustrations to explain the laws.

First Edition. Amsterdam, 1756. With endorsements from the rabbis of Amsterdam and Leszno.

12. Sefer Ma'amar Efsharit HaTeviit – On philosophy compared with the wisdom of truth, by Rabbi Naftali Hirsch Goslar.

Only Edition. Amsterdam, 1762.

Stamp: David Yehuda Weissappel.

Signature: Alter Moshe Eliezer Rosner.

13. Sefer Marganita Shapira – Sermons on the subject of shofar blowing by Rabbi Avraham A"H (Oppenheim).

Only Edition. Amsterdam, 1767, printed by Gerard Johan Jansson. Endorsed by Rabbi Shaul, Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Rabbi Shlomo Salem, Chief Rabbi of Sephardim in Amsterdam, and Rabbi Shaul Halevi, Chief Rabbi of The Hague.

Inscription on the title page noting the sefer was received as a gift from the esteemed author.

14. Sefer Kisei Melech – Commentary on Tikkunei HaRashbi by the renowned Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Buzaglo.

First Edition. Amsterdam, 1769.

Antique signature on the title page: Yom Tov Lipman ben Moshe Shlomo.

15. Sefer Yemin Moshe – Laws of shechita and treifot, by Rabbi Moshe Ventura of Jerusalem, edited and published by Rabbi Chaim Moshe Krigal; with Be’er Mayim Chaim commentary by Rabbi Chaim Avraham Israel Zevi. Published with Sefer Zikaron L'Bnei Yisrael, an abridged guide to the laws of shechita by Rabbi Avraham Mizrahi, and Sefer Shochat Yeladim, laws of shechita in poetic form by Rabbi Yisrael Najara.

The Hague, 1777-1778. Each sefer has its own title page.

Signature and Sephardic handwritten inscriptions.

16. Order of Selichot for the Whole Year – With Yiddish instructions, according to the customs of Alsace.

Karlsruhe, 1798, printed by Hirsch, son of Rabbi Moshe Worms.

Ancient ownership inscription of Nathan Haas (1781 1837) of Rixheim, near Mühlhausen.

Various sizes and conditions. Overall condition is good.