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Lot 101 Lot 102
101 EMDEN, JACOB. (Liturgy). Amudei Shamayim. * Sha’arei
Shamayim. * Birchoth Shamayim [prayers for the entire year,
with extensive commentary by Jacob Emden]. FIRST EDITION.
THREE PARTS, IN THREE VOLUMES. Vol. I: ff.(1), 356, 354-385, 389-
415, 417-418. * Vol. II: ff.159. * Vol. III: ff. 314 . Browned (as usual),
some worming, slight repair on fi nal leaf of vol. II affecting a few letters.
Manuscript Latin translation of title-page facing Birchoth Shamayim.
Recent boards. 8vo. Sold not subject to return. [Vinograd, Altona 45,
46 & 47; Mehlman 214, 804; Zedner p. 23; Roest p. 355; Y. Raphael,
Areshet III, no.26 i-ii, 27-i].
Altona, at the Author’s Press: 1745-48. $8000-10,000
❧ An important three-part detailed commentary to the prayerbook
with extensive examination of ritual law and custom.
As Zedner and Roest have noted, the third volume was never
completely printed and “remained unfi nished.” It has been suggested
that Emden printed this work in two stages, initially through until f.
314 (as here) and later with the addition through f. 395.
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Lot 103
102 ELIEZER BEN NATHAN. Even Ha’ezer, Sepher RABa”N [novellae
and discourses]. FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border
incorporating printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks, no. 37). ff. 154.
Lightly browned, stained in places, slight worming on lower margin of fi nal three
leaves, slight tear on last leaf. Recent boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Prague 186].
Prague, Moses ben Bezalel Katz: 1610. $600-900
❧ Contributes much to the knowledge of the state of
scholarship and way of life of the Jews of France, Bulgaria and
Germany in the 12th century.
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103 EMDEN, JACOB. Igereth Bikoreth [responsa relating to castration
and eunuchs]. Second edition with many additions. ff. 25, (1). Stained in
places, opening signature loose, stamp of previous owner on title and fi nal leaf.
Later boards. Folio. [Vinograd, Altona 78; Raphael, Aresheth Vol. III no. IV ii].
Contantinople (i.e. Altona), By the author: 1765. $800-1200
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104 EISENSTADT, MEIR. (MaHaRa”M Esh). Panim Meiroth [responsa and novellae on Zevachim]. FIRST EDITION. Verso of opening and closing
blanks contain important scholarly notes attributed to RABBI AKIVA EGER, copied from the Panim Meiroth “presently in the possession of R.
S[hlomo E[ger],” plus additional marginalia noting Warsaw’s Tlomatchka Street synagogue (once home of an important library). Part I: ff.
4, 96. Part II: 1, 35. Ex-library, with signatures, inscriptions, stamps and bookplate of former owners, including Tzvi Hirsch b. Yisrael Isser, R. Chaim Leib
Yudkovsky of Warsaw (see below). Contemporary calf. Folio. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1065].
Amsterdam, Shlomo Proops: 1715. $800-1200
❧ The author (c. 1670-1744) began his Rabbinic career in Szydlowiec, Poland. He later settled in Worms where he was appointed head
of the yeshivah. Following the occupation of Worms by the French in 1701, he moved to Prossnitz, Moravia, where he served as rabbi. In
Prossnitz, R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz was among his prime disciples, indeed R. Meir raised R. Jonathan as a member of his own family upon
the death of the youngster’s father. In 1714, R. Meir received the call to minister to the city of Eisenstadt and its “seven communities” and
gained particular fame there as the MaHaRa”M Esh (short for Eisenstadt ). As a world reknowned authority, he corresponded with R.
Abraham Broda of Frankfurt, R. Gavriel of Nikolsburg and R. David Oppenheim of Prague. See EJ VI, cols. 549-50
R. Chaim Leib Yudkovsky served as a member of the Vaad HaRabbanim of Warsaw, His father-in-law was R. Samuel Zanvil Klepfi sh, the
Rosh Beth Din of Warsaw.
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