Bidspirit auction | Collection of Early Seforim, 1692–1889.

Collection of Early Seforim, 1692–1889. Signatures and Ownership Stamps. - 1.   Sefer Zehav Shivah – A Work on the Language of the Talmud and the Words of the Tosafists Relating to Aggadah. By Rabbi Nissim ben Abraham Algazi. Fürth, 1692. With early ownership signatures on the title page: ”The humble Eliezer HaLevi.” ”Chaim HaKohen.” Rabbi Nissim ben Abraham Algazi was born in Bursa, Turkey, in 1610. He later immigrated to Jerusalem, where he served as a Dayan. In 1646 he returned to Turkey and headed a yeshivah in Izmir. He was among the leading opponents of the Sabbatean movement and, as a result, was forced to leave Turkey. He returned to Jerusalem and became one of the scholars of the Beit Yaakov Beit Midrash, founded by Rabbi Yaakov Chagiz. He authored numerous works, including Shem Shlomo, Me'ulaf Sefarim, Lechem Setarim, and others. 2 . Sefer Lechem Dim'ah – Commentary on the Book of Lamentations, with the Text and Rashi's Commentary. By the scholar Rabbi Shmuel Ozida. Amsterdam, 1710. Printed by Yaakov Alvarish Soto, Moshe Ibn Yakar Brandon, and Binyamin de Yonah. Rabbi Shmuel Ozida was among the earliest disciples of the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) and a colleague of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak). He was born in Safed to Rabbi Yitzchak de Ozida and studied in the yeshivah of Rabbi Elisha Gallico. He later founded a large yeshivah where both revealed Torah (nigleh) and Kabbalah were studied. He is best known for his famous commentary on Pirkei Avot, Midrash Shmuel. After the passing of the Ari in 1572, he studied Kabbalah with Rabbi Chaim Vital, and in 1575 he signed the document of allegiance of the Ari's disciples recognizing Rabbi Chaim Vital as the spiritual heir of the Ari. 3 . Rare: Sefer Tzintzenet Menachem on the Aggadot of Chazal. First edition. Berlin, 1720. With an early handwritten correction. 4. Responsa Maharam of Lublin. Responsa by Rabbi Meir, Av Beit Din of Kraków and later Lublin, after whom he became known as the Maharam of Lublin. With an approbation from the renowned Gaon the Sha'agat Aryeh and others. Second edition. Metz, 1769. 5 . Sha'agat Aryeh by the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Asher (Ginzburg), Rabbi of Metz. Brünn, 1797. With the ownership stamp of Rabbi Chaim Dov Hollander. 6. Sefer   Netivot HaMishpat. With ownership inscriptions of Rabbi Avraham Abba Yaakov Senderowitz, Av Beit Din of Prerashla. Rabbi Avraham Abba Yaakov Senderowitz later immigrated to Jerusalem, where he served as a Dayan alongside Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Shapira of Kovno and Rabbi Binyamin of Stupczy. He is mentioned in the responsa Bnei Tzion (published in 1870), gave an approbation to the work Zikhron Tanchum (Jerusalem, 1892), and published articles in Torah MiTzion (Jerusalem, 1895–1905). He delivered the eulogy for Sir Moses Montefiore at the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem (published in HaChavatzel, year 15, p. 340).