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Lot 73 Passover Haggadah, With Italian Translation – Trieste, 1864 – Special Hand-Colored Copy

Passover Haggadah, with Italian translation and illustrations. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. The Haggadah ends with musical
Passover Haggadah, with Italian translation and illustrations. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. The Haggadah ends with musical
Passover Haggadah, with Italian translation and illustrations. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. The Haggadah ends with musical
Passover Haggadah, with Italian translation and illustrations. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. The Haggadah ends with musical
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Passover Haggadah, with Italian translation and illustrations. Trieste: Colombo Coen, 1864. The Haggadah ends with musical notes for the songs Adir Hu, Adir BiMeluchah and Echad Mi Yodea.
Special copy, with title frames and initial panels throughout the Haggadah hand-colored.
Hebrew and Italian on facing columns.
This Haggadah was published by Avraham Chai Morpurgo. It is illustrated with 58 engravings by C. Kirchmayr, with captions below each illustration.

[5], 64, [2] pages. 31.5 cm. Varying condition of leaves, fair to good-fair. Many stains, including dark food and wine stains to some leaves. Tears to title page and several other leaves, partially repaired with paper. Old binding, with minor defects.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Otzar HaHaggadot 1217.
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Lot 74 The Barcelona Haggadah – Exquisite Facsimile

The Barcelona Haggadah, exquisite facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. With a commentary volume, including an English
The Barcelona Haggadah, exquisite facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. With a commentary volume, including an English
The Barcelona Haggadah, exquisite facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. With a commentary volume, including an English
The Barcelona Haggadah, exquisite facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. With a commentary volume, including an English
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The Barcelona Haggadah, exquisite facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. With a commentary volume, including an English translation of the text. London, 1992. Copy no. 31/500 (the facsimile was printed in a total of 550 copies, including 50 Ad Personam copies identical to regular copies).
An exquisite, accurate facsimile of the Barcelona Haggadah, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript. Printed on thick imitation vellum paper and bound in leather. The raised burnished gold in the original was reproduced by laying metal leaf by hand.

Facsimile: [161] leaves. Commentary volume: 175 pages. Approx. 26 cm. Both volumes placed in original cardboard slipcase. Slipcase: 28 cm. Good condition. Minor defects to spines and slipcase.
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Lot 75 Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust – Haifa, 1985 – Colorful Prints

Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah We
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Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust, with illustrations by David Wander and calligraphy and micrography by Yonah Weinrib. Haifa: Goldman's Art Gallery, 1985.
Folder with twelve prints, signed and numbered by David Wander, and 44 pages of text, most illustrated. The traditional Haggadah text is supplemented by Veshinantam Levanecha, a short passage by Abba Kovner in Hebrew and English, and the songs Ani Maamin, Es Brent and the Partisan Song (Yiddish).
Numbered copy, 62/250. Signed on colophon page by David Wander and Yonah Weinrib.

[45] leaves + [12] prints, approx. 51X38 cm. Placed in leather-coated cardboard folder. Good condition. Minor defects.
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Lot 76 The Kennicott Bible – Elaborate Facsimile

The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy
The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy
The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy
The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy
The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy
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The Kennicott Bible. Elaborate facsimile published by Facsimile Editions. Including commentary volume. London, [1985]. Copy no. 299, of a limited edition of 500 copies (altogether 550 copies were printed, including 50 AP – Ad Personam copies, which are identical to the regular copies).
A facsimile of the Kennicott Bible, illuminated Spanish manuscript from 1476, named after Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), English churchman and Hebraist, who purchased it for the Radcliffe Library in England. The manuscript was commissioned by Don Solomon de Braga, about twenty years before the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. It was designed and written by Moshe ibn Zabara and illuminated by Yosef ibn Chaim, in a fashion inspired by Islamic art. The manuscript contains the complete Bible, with the Radak commentary and Sefer HaMichlol.

An exceptionally beautiful facsimile, which was published after five and a half years of preparation. Printed on thick paper of excellent quality, specially created to reproduce the appearance of the parchment upon which the original manuscript was written. The gilding was done by hand, by seven artists who worked continuously for four months. Bound in an ornamented leather binding.

Facsimile: [444] leaves. 30 cm. Gilt edges. Commentary volume: 97 pages. Good condition. Facsimile and commentary volume in fine slipcase. Minor defects to slipcase and defect to closing band.
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Lot 77 Mishlei with Latin Translation – Basel, 1524

Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524
Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524
Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524
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Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art Sep 1, 2026
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Mishlei – Proverbia Salomonis, the Book of Mishlei with a Latin translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Froben, 1524.
Hebrew and Latin on facing pages. Notes on translation by Münster after the Book of Mishlei.
Introduction by Münster. Recommendation to reader by Konrad Pellikan.
Froben's printer's device appears on title page and on verso of last leaf.

[132] leaves. 16.5 cm. Varying condition, fair to fair-good. Stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness. Tears, including open tears to top of title page and approx. first ten leaves, repaired with paper. Worming (significant worming in some places), affecting text, mainly to first leaves, partially repaired with paper filling. Early parchment binding, repaired, with new endpaper (parts of early binding lacking, with replacements). Housed in cardboard slipcase.

Secular date of printing appears at end of Münster's introduction.

Joseph Prijs, Basle, no. 16.
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Lot 78 Selected Prayers and Biblical Passages – Paris, 1554 – Trilingual Hebrew-Latin-Greek Edition – Original Leather Binding

Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosorum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca, & Latina
Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosorum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca, & Latina
Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosorum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca, & Latina
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Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosorum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca, & Latina in Enchiridij formulam redactae. Adiectis benedictionibus, canticis, & si qua alia eiusdem sunt generis [Some of the more famous prayers from the Bible, arranged for the benefit of students in the form of a handbook in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. With added blessings, songs, and the like]. Paris: Martin Le Jeune, 1554. Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
Printed from left to right.
The book comprises Christian prayers and selections from the Bible (including seven psalms from Tehillim, the Song of the Sea, the Song of Haazinu and more), in Hebrew, Greek and two parallel Latin versions.
The text is arranged in four parallel columns over two-page spreads (from right to left): vocalized Hebrew text, Latin translation of Santes Pagnini, Latin Vulgate and Greek Septuagint.
At beginning of book: approval and privilege of the French parliament, in French, and introduction of editor in Latin. On title page, printer's device – a snake coiled around a rod, reminiscent of Moses' copper snake.

363 pages. 13.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Gilt edges. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations; wear and defects to binding.

See: Steinschneider, CB, no. 140; Adams P2070.

Provenance: Collection of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Lot 79 Book of Tehillim – Nuremberg, 1602 – Multilingual Edition Edited by Elias Hutter

Psalterium Harmonicum, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, & Germanicè. Edited by Elias Hutter. N
Psalterium Harmonicum, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, & Germanicè. Edited by Elias Hutter. N
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Psalterium Harmonicum, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, & Germanicè. Edited by Elias Hutter. Nuremberg, 1602.
Multilingual edition of the Book of Tehillim, edited by Hebraist Elias Hutter, Hebrew lecturer at the University of Leipzig, as an aid to students of ancient languages.
The text is arranged in five columns: Hebrew, Latin transcription of Hebrew, Greek, German and Latin, with a sixth narrow, blank column for handwritten notes.

863 pages. Approx. 18 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor defects. Signatures and inscriptions on endpapers; inscriptions and notations on margins of some leaves (in blank columns meant to be filled in by hand). Close trimming, bordering text, affecting frames of some pages. Early parchment binding, with stains and wear.

See: Darlow & Moule 1433; Y. Yudlov, Ginzei Yisrael, no. 1902.
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Lot 80 Torah and Ketuvim – Basel, 1611-1612 – Small Format

Bible – Five Books of the Torah and Ketuvim. Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1611-1612. Without Neviim Rishonim and Acharonim.
Bible – Five Books of the Torah and Ketuvim. Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1611-1612. Without Neviim Rishonim and Acharonim.
Bible – Five Books of the Torah and Ketuvim. Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1611-1612. Without Neviim Rishonim and Acharonim.
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Bible – Five Books of the Torah and Ketuvim. Basel: Konrad Waldkirch, 1611-1612. Without Neviim Rishonim and Acharonim.
Two columns per page.
After Divrei HaYamim, list of haftarot according to all customs.
Five Megillot printed after the Torah.
Late handwritten inscriptions (pencil) on endpaper.

224; 187, [7] pages. 15.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to title page (title page partially detached). Original leather binding, with wear and defects (front side detached).

Bookplate of Joseh Augus inside the front board.
Joseph Prijs, Basle, no. 207.
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Lot 81 Tikun Sofrim with Haftarot – Amsterdam, 1726 – Illustrated Title Pages, With Engravings by Bernard Picart – Fine Six-Volume Set – Elaborate Leather Bindings

Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and haftarot. Amsterdam: for Cantor Shmuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moshe Tzarfati and Dav
Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and haftarot. Amsterdam: for Cantor Shmuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moshe Tzarfati and Dav
Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and haftarot. Amsterdam: for Cantor Shmuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moshe Tzarfati and Dav
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Tikun Sofrim, year-round Torah portions and haftarot. Amsterdam: for Cantor Shmuel Rodrigues Mendes, Moshe Tzarfati and David Gomes da Silva, 1726. Six volumes.
Elaborate six-volume set in original leather binding, with many gilt decorations, and original color endpaper.
Title pages illustrated with copper engravings by Bernard Picart: illustrated general title page at beginning of first volume (followed by an ordinary title page), and illustrated divisional title page for each book of the Torah (name of book added in handwriting to top of title pages of Shemot-Devarim).
Divisional title page for haftarot. Includes chart of Torah readings for the festivals, and charts in Spanish (folding leaves), with divisional title page in Hebrew and Spanish.
Handwritten ownership inscriptions on illustrated title pages of all volumes (in Torah scroll script): "Yaakov Senior Enriques".

Six volumes. Bereshit: [11], 3-81 leaves. Does not contain [1] leaf with double Torah portion charts (1726-1785). Shemot: [2], 83-149 leaves. Vayikra: [2], 151-198 leaves. Bamidbar: [2], 200-267 leaves. Devarim: [2], 269-327 leaves. Haftarot: [2], 329-446; [4] leaves; [3] folding charts, 9-16 pages, [2] leaves. 15.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Tears to several leaves. Two folding charts in haftarot volume torn (affecting text) and detached. Original leather binding, with wear and defects (mainly to corners). Placed in cardboard case, with defects (top lacking).

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans in first volume.
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Lot 82 Five Books of the Torah and Haftarot – Paris, 1809 – All Seven Parts in Two Volumes – Original Decorated Leather Bindings

Order of Torah portions and haftarot for entire year, with Or Torah glosses (by R. Menachem di Lonzano). Proofread by Yitzc
Order of Torah portions and haftarot for entire year, with Or Torah glosses (by R. Menachem di Lonzano). Proofread by Yitzc
Order of Torah portions and haftarot for entire year, with Or Torah glosses (by R. Menachem di Lonzano). Proofread by Yitzc
Order of Torah portions and haftarot for entire year, with Or Torah glosses (by R. Menachem di Lonzano). Proofread by Yitzc
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Order of Torah portions and haftarot for entire year, with Or Torah glosses (by R. Menachem di Lonzano). Proofread by Yitzchak Dualabrigua in Paris. Paris: Chez Levy, 1809. Seven parts in two volumes (includes two haftarot parts), divisional title page for each part (and additional general title page at beginning of first volume).
Original bindings, with gilt decorations and owners' name inscribed on front of bindings: "Moshe Chaim Nahon".
Fine title page at beginning of each of the Five Books of the Torah.
With haftarot for all Torah portions and festivals, according to the Sephardic, Ashkenazic and Italian rites.
Handwritten inscriptions and signature (in pencil) to title page of first volume: "Moshe Chaim Nahon".
Handwritten inscriptions in second volume, on verso of Bamidbar title page and last page.

Seven parts in two volumes. Volume I (Bereshit-Vayikra and associated haftarot): [4], 76, [1] leaves; [2], 80-142, [1] leaves; [1], 145-190, [1] leaves; [3], 85 leaves. Volume II (Bamidbar-Devarim and associated haftarot): [1], 66 leaves; [1], 68-124, [1] leaves; [3], 64, [1] leaves. 15 cm. Volume I in good-fair condition; volume II in good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. Worming to first leaves of volume II, affecting text. Close trimming, affecting printed marginal notes. Original leather bindings. Wear and defects to bindings (some of original endpapers lacking; many defects to front of second volume).
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Lot 83 Logic of Rabbi Shimon – Basel, 1527 – First Edition of Milot Higayon by the Rambam

[Milot] HaHigayon of R. Shimon, Logica Sapientis Rabbi Simeonis, by R. Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam, with Latin foreword a
[Milot] HaHigayon of R. Shimon, Logica Sapientis Rabbi Simeonis, by R. Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam, with Latin foreword a
[Milot] HaHigayon of R. Shimon, Logica Sapientis Rabbi Simeonis, by R. Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam, with Latin foreword a
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[Milot] HaHigayon of R. Shimon, Logica Sapientis Rabbi Simeonis, by R. Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam, with Latin foreword and translation, by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. First edition. Hebrew and Latin.
Milot Higayon was evidently authored by the Rambam in his early years. The work, originally written in Judeo-Arabic, concisely presents the essentials of Aristotelian logic, which influenced the Rambam's philosophy throughout his life. Münster's Latin translation is based on the first Hebrew translation of the book by R. Moshe ibn Tibbon. It is unclear why Münster decided to name the book after R. Shimon, even though the true author's name (R. Moshe son of R. Maimon) is given at the beginning of the book.
Some conjecture that he gave this name to the book in recognition of Prof. 
Simon Grynaeus
(1493-1541), theologian, humanist and leading proponent of the Protestant Reformation, from whom he received the manuscript of this work, as he relates in the dedication at the beginning of the book.
Printer's device of Froben on last page.
Handwritten inscriptions (German) on title page and last leaf.
Hebrew inscription (faulty) below colophon of last leaf.

[62] leaves. 16 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear, signs of use and tears to margins of title page and other leaves. Worming. New leather binding (signed: "V. Steinmann").

Only [60] leaves are recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Joseph Prijs, Basle, no. 28.
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Lot 84 Chochmat HaMazalot – Basel, 1527 – First Edition

Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin.
Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin.
Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin.
Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin.
Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin.
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Chochmat HaMazalot, Kalendarium Hebraicum, edited by Sebastian Münster. Basel: Johann Froben, 1527. Hebrew and Latin. First edition.
Anthology of works and various passages on the subject of the Hebrew calendar, partially translated into Latin. Includes selections from Seder Olam Zuta, Sefer HaKabbalah by R. Avraham ibn Daud and other works.
Many fine woodcut initial panels. Various additional charts and illustrations.
Does not contain two plates with large astronomical illustrations.
Printer's device of Johann Froben on title page and last leaf.
Glosses and inscriptions (in Latin) in margin and within text.

[7], 200, [16] pages. Lacking [2] plates. 18.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, including dampstains. First gathering slightly loose. Many inscriptions partially deleted with ink on title page. New binding, with minor defects.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.

Joseph Prijs, Basel, No. 24, p. 45-48.
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