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LOT 517:

Four Important and Rare Books on the Avot Tractate – First Editions

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Four Important and Rare Books on the Avot Tractate – First Editions
Pirkei Avot with Rashi and Rebbenu Yonah. Berlin and Altona, 1848. First edition with the commentary by Rabbenu Yonah. The book was edited and published by Rabbi Simcha Dalitzki of Bialystok.
36 leaves.
Condition: Good. Wear.
Toldot Yehoshua, commentary on Pirkei Avot, by Rabbi Yehoshua Heller. Vilnius, 1866.
53 leaves [1].
Condition: Good. Wear. New binding.
Midrash Shmuel, commentary on Pirkei Avot by Rabbi Shmuel di Ozida. Warsaw (on the title page, the words "in Amsterdam" is prominent. There is no known edition of Midrash Shmuel that was printed there; therefore, this means the Zholkva edition of 1763), 1867.
Ownership inscriptions.
Condition: Good. Minor moth sign.
Kiseh Rachamaim, commentary on the Sofrim tractate and Avot tractate [as well Avot De'Rabbi Natan, with a separate title page], by the Chida. Ungvar, 1870. Bibliographically unknown edition, with special approbations. (Only a similar edition, from two years earlier, is known). On the title page, the year is notes as "Rabbeinu Chaim Yosef David Azulai" [1872?].
Prepared for printing by Rabbi Naftali Sheinfeld of Munkatsh.
121 leaves.
Condition: Good.