With much stemming from the estates of three knowledgeable Judaica collectors, this wide-ranging auction contains many sub-categories of Judaica.
The sale is divided as follows:
Lots 1-45: Hebrew Printed Books, including sections of Bindings, Miniatures, and a significant offering of Minhagim Books.
Lots 46-55: Manuscripts, including an autograph letter by Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson.
Lots 56-114 represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including the United States, England, China, the German-speaking lands, India, the Land of Israel, Poland, Spain and elsewhere. Also included are sections focusing on the Holocaust, Zionism and cook-books.
An offering of illustrated books are in lots 115-134.
A stupendous single owner collection of the very best Holy Land maps are found in lots 138-151.
Graphic Arts are Lots 152-215. Most prominently are nine pictures by Itshak Holtz; a fine portrait by Isidor Kaufmann, as well as art from Samuel Hirszenberg, Jozef Isaëls, Artur Markowicz, Jacques Tissot, Saul Raskin, Boris Schatz and Yohanan Simon, among others.
Ceremonial objects are lots 216 to the end of the sale.
The final lot (332) is the extraordinary pre-war Dreidel collection formed by Arthur Kurzweil.
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LOT 2:
MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /
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Sold for: $16,000
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MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES /
RaMBa’M.
Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide of the Perplexed.”]
Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibon.
Second edition. The first edition with commentaries by R. Shem Tov ben Yosef, R. Yitzhak Duran, and R. Yehuda Alharizi.
On title, printer's mark of three crowns (Yaari 18). First word of ibn Tibbon's Introduction (f. 1r) within elaborate engraved surround. Formerly in the library of Rabbi J.L. Gurewicz, Melbourne.
ff. (12), 185, (1). Leaves 19-20 lacking and supplied in manuscript in an early hand by an expert scribe exactly matching the printed page. Scattered light foxing and dampstaining, previous owner’s inscriptions and stamps.
Bound in 17th-century blind-tooled calf over thick wooden boards, with two brass clasps and hinges, expertly rebacked. Folio.
Vinograd, Venice 421.
Venice, Alvise Bragadin - Meir Parenzo, 1551.
Rare Second Edition of the Moreh Nevuchim
(the first edition appeared in Rome c. 1474, without commentary).
The final work by Maimonides (1135-1204). The Guide for the Perplexed was completed c. 1185 and is the main source of the Rambam’s philosophical views. He originally wrote it in Judeo-Arabic and it was first translated into Hebrew in 1204 by a contemporary of Maimonides in Southern France, Shmuel ben Yehuda ibn Tibon.
Due to its Aristotelian leanings, the work had a history fraught with controversy, both within and beyond the Jewish community. Tragically - and obviously due to other motivations - it was publicly burned by the Dominicans in Paris, 1232. It is said that R. Yonah Gerondi, one of those who agitated for the banning of Moreh Nevuchim, later journeyed to Maimonides’ tomb in Eretz Israel to beg the deceased author for forgiveness.
Today the Guide for the Perplexed is undoubtedly the most celebrated philosophical text in all of Jewish literature - and by far the most influential.
This volume bound with:
Shmuel ibn Seneh Zarza. Mekor Chaim [commentary to the Chumash].
First Edition. ff. 130. [Vinograd, Mantua 63]. Mantua, 1559.
