Bidspirit auction | [4] Sefarim printed in Warsaw


[4] Sefarim printed in Warsaw in a single volume: Derashat HaRamban on the greatness of our holy Torah (1837), Iggeret Ba’alei Chayim (1843), Mikveh Yisrael (1841), Shevet Yehudah (1841). - [4] Sefarim printed in Warsaw in one volume: Derashat HaRamban on the greatness of our holy Torah (1837), Iggeret Ba’alei Chayim (1843), Mikveh Yisrael (1841), Shevet Yehudah (1841). A single volume containing [4] Sefarim printed in Warsaw, 1837–1842: * Derashah delivered by the great Rabbi Rabbeinu Moshe Ben Nachman… before the king and ministers in Zaragoza, in which he demonstrated the greatness of the Torah and of Israel before the nations. Press of David Shklover, Warsaw, 1837. [2], 13, [1] leaves. Two title pages. * Iggeret Ba’alei Chayim, a Sefer filled with divine and natural wisdom and moral instruction, translated from Arabic by Rabbi Klonimus. Press of David Shklower, Warsaw, 1842. 46 leaves. * Sefer Mikveh Yisrael, by Rabbi Menasheh Ben Yisrael, an inquiry into the location of the Ten Tribes and the settlement of part of the New World, America, with “Ma’aseh Rav” by Aharon HaLevi Sephardi. Press of Tzvi Yaakov Bamberg, Warsaw, 1841. 24 leaves. * Shevet Yehudah, by the physician Solomon ibn Verga, recounting the many calamities and hardships that befell Israel in the lands of the nations… the last of which was the great evil that befell the kingdom of Poland in the years 1648–1649. Press of Tzvi Yaakov Bamberg and partner, Warsaw, 1841. 63 leaves. With ownership signatures of the eminent rabbinic leader Nachman Yehuda Ben Reb Simcha Finkelstein of Węgrowa, and his stamps. With signatures of Simcha Bunim Mintz, ”חתן מוהר”ר הנגד המפורסם החסיד והישר באדם ר' יעקב יצחק ז”ל... לאדז”, and an additional ownership signature. Also with the stamp N. D. Zyskind, Warsaw. Rabbi Simcha Bunim Mintz (1860–1943) — Chassid of Gur, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Widislawski of Łódź, and father of Rabbi Binyamin Mintz, leader of Po’alei Agudat Yisrael and Minister of Postal Services. He emigrated from Łódź to Haifa. Binding detached, stains and worming, damaged spine causing the volume to separate into two parts, and the first leaf detached. Fair condition.