Auction of Judaica focusing on printed books and handwritten documents and other manuscripts. Divided into categories as follows:
Religious Hebrew books take up the first third of the auction. Highlights are: The first edition of two parts of the Shulchan Aruch (Venice, 1565, Lots 37 and 38) a large fragment of the Tanach Constantinople, 1522 (lot 5); and several Zhitomir / Slavita imprints.
Also appearing are Rabbinic manuscripts and letters from such luminaries as Yehuda Aszod (lot 57); Avraham Azulai (lot 73); Reuven ibn Yahya (lot 78); Moshe Provencal (lot 87); Ya’akov Toledano (lot 90), etc.
The personal silver Kiddush cup of the Ribnitzer Rebbe (lot 56) will of course attract much attention.
The sale highlight is lot 94: An exceptional illuminated manuscript that has never before appeared at public auction. A Passover Hagadah created by the celebrated artistic-scribe Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch, Frankfurt, 1833.
The next section (lots 108-178) represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including Australia, Brazil, China, the German-speaking lands, Gibraltar, Poland, Russia, etc. Also included is much on Holy Land travel, the Land of Israel and Zionism.
The section of Antisemitica / Holocaust includes an exceptional illuminated manuscript (lot 208) devoted to the Polish Jews of Częstochowa. Also of importance is a recently uncovered diary from 1945 of a young Hungarian Jewess who survived Auschwitz (lot 205); and a large archive of personal documents of a German-Jewish doctor who spent the years 1939-47 in Shanghai.
General Judaica (lots 209-245) includes the first edition of Bartolocci’s first ever bibliography of Hebrew books (Rome, 1675, lot 209); a unique copy of the Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography, personally signed by him (lot 226); and the first edition of one of the rarest works of Spanish-Jewish literature, Moses Almosnino’s Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla (Madrid, 1638, lot 231).
The penultimate section of the sale (lot 241-267) are illustrated books and graphic art including several fine books from the magnificent hand of Arthur Szyk, including two original drawings by him (lots 258, 259).
The final section of the sale are fine books that stem from the library of the late Charles Wuorinen, being English & Continental Early Printed Books (lots 268-291).
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LOT 120:
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Sold for: $1,100
Start price:
$
600
Estimated price :
$700 - $1,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On the full lot's price and commission
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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(Epidemic). Nous les Commissaires Députés de la Chambre de Santé etablié de la Ville de Strasbourg [.] que tout Commerce & Négoce avec le Royaume de Pologne, de la Moldavie …Quant aux Juifs des environs de cette ville …L’entrée an cette ville sera refusée …
French edict. Singe printed page. 14 x 16 inches.
Strasbourg, 1770.
Travel restriction on Jewish peddlers in response to containing the plague.
In response to outbreaks of plague, smallpox, and other contagious diseases, the city of Strasbourg enacted this regulation to prevent the spread. It prohibited or suspended any commercial activities originating from or linked to German cities, Poland, Moldavia, Wallachia, the Banat of Temeswar, and Transylvania. Additionally, the decree bared deserted soldiers, Jewish beggars and vagabonds from entering the city, even if they possessed appropriate papers. Jews residing outside Strasbourg had to renew their residence permission monthly.
During the early modern era in Europe, the threat of plague and other contagious diseases loomed large, with uncertainty as to when or where they might strike. Although often accompanied by false rumors and alarms, the measures of this edict is likely connected to the Russian plague of 1770, which began in Moldavia in January 1770. The plague spread during the Russian-Turkish war, advancing northward through Ukraine, Poland, and central Russia before peaking in Moscow in September 1771. This outbreak claimed an estimated thousand lives daily in Moscow, with total death toll estimates ranging from 52,000 to 300,000.
