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Large and Important Collection of Antique Seforim, 1696–1820. Signatures. - 1. Sefer Yad Yosef – Homiletic discourses on the weekly Torah portions and various occasions, by Rabbi Yosef Tzarfati. Second edition. Amsterdam, 1696. Printed by Immanuel ben Yosef Athias. Two title pages, the first beautifully illustrated with an engraved border (similar to that of the Shelah printed in Amsterdam, 1698). 2. Sefer Gaon Tzvi – Halachic novellae on Tractates Yevamot, Ketubot, Kiddushin, Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, and Chullin, by the Kabbalist Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horowitz (author of Aspaklaria HaMe’ira on the Zohar). First edition. Prague–Wilhermsdorf, printed by the grandchildren of Judah ben Kalonymus Bacharach, [1737–1738]. Leaves [3]–[4], containing approbations and a second preface by “the organizing rabbi, ” were printed in Wilhermsdorf by Hirsch ben Chaim of Fürth in 1738. Antique signatures on the title page. 3. Sheva Shitot L’HaRashba – Berlin, 1756. Novellae by Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (Rashba) on Tractates Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Megillah, Sukkah, Yevamot, Nedarim, and Bava Kama. With approbations by great scholars, including Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua of Krakow (Pnei Yehoshua) and Rabbi Yirmiyahu of Halberstadt, Av Beit Din of Berlin. 4. Sefer Likutei HaShas – Teachings of the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) on the Talmud. Lemberg or Zolkiew, 1783. 5. Sefer HaBachur – By “the great grammarian R’ Eliyahu HaLevi Ashkenazi.” Prague, 1789. 6. Sefer Mikhlol – Grammatical principles by Radak, with commentary by Rabbi Eliyahu Ashkenazi and additional notes by the editor Rabbi Moshe HaCohen HaAkim. Fürth, 1793. Printed by Itzek Zern Dorf. 7. Sefer Ahavat David – Homilies for Shabbat and ethical sermons, by the Chida (Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai). Includes sermons for Shabbat Zachor, Shabbat HaGadol, Shabbat Kallah, and Shabbat Teshuvah, delivered between 1795–1799 in Livorno. Also includes the treatise Shefa Echat – a commentary on the Passover Haggadah. First Edition. Livorno, 1799. Printed by Eliezer Saadon. 8. Sefer Pachad Yitzchak, Vol. IV – Letters Yud to Lamed. From the first Torah encyclopedia authored by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronti, Rabbi of Ferrara and one of the greatest Italian rabbis. First edition. 1813. Volume IV is unique as printing began in Venice and was completed in Reggio. (Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod no. 531) 9. Sefer Mif’alot Elokim – A collection of segulot, amulets, and remedies based on sacred and holy names, compiled from the writings of great and well-known Kabbalists—especially Rabbi Yoel Ba’al Shem and the Gaon Rabbi Naftali Katz, Av Beit Din of Pozna and the surrounding region—as well as expert physicians. Copy missing the title page. Antique signature: Avraham bar Ze’ev Meiteles. 10. Sefer Zechirah – Ethical conduct, fear of Heaven, segulot and remedies, by Rabbi Zechariah of Plungian. Hrubieszów, 1820. Antique signatures: Yehiel Feldman (or Perlman) of Lelov, and Aharon son of Rabbi Y. Krakowski of Lelov.