Bidspirit auction | Varied Collection of Antique Seforim

Varied Collection of Antique Seforim 1717-1825, Signatures. - 1 . Sefer  Korban Aharon. A halachic work on the laws of issur ve-heter (ritual prohibitions and permissions), serving as an index and guide to Torat Ha-Chatot of Rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema), authored by Rabbi Aharon ben Elazar Lipman, Rabbi of Tzempelburg. Wilhermsdorf, 1717. Rare second edition. Printed by Hirsch ben Chaim of Fürth. Antique signature on the title page: Mordechai Yaffe. Additional signature: Avraham Yaakov Quadrat, a student at the Keter Torah Yeshiva in Kraków. 2 . Sefer Binah Le-Ittim. Sermons and homiletical discourses on the festivals of the Jewish year, by Rabbi Azariah Figo. Brünn, 1799. Antique signature: Moshe Lichtensteiner, a student of the gaon Rabbi David Buchheim, Rabbi of Brod (Ungarisch Brod). 3. Tractate Brachot from the Babylonian Talmud and the Mishnah Order Zeraim. Including the “Annotations and Corrections of the True Gaon and Famous Saint, our Master Rabbi Elijah of Vilna”- the first edition of these glosses. Dyhernfurth, 1816–1818. In this edition, the Vilna Gaon’s annotations were printed at the end of each tractate. In the present volume, the glosses appear at the conclusion of Tractate Berakhot and at the end of Mishnah Zeraim. The Mishnah Zeraim section has its own separate title page. Antique signature on the title page: Gershon. Important handwritten scholarly annotations on folio 2. 4. Sefer Reshit Chochmah, composed by the saintly gaon and divine kabbalist Rabbi Eliyahu de Vidas, a disciple of the Ramak (Rabbi Moshe Cordovero). With the commentary of Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi, integrated into the body of the text. [Sudylkiv, 1825]. Bearing an old ownership stamp of Rabbi Avraham of Kalisz, who later settled in Safed. He was among the leading Chassidic figures of Safed.