Auction 15
Special Sale on 2th of Sivan - Rare Books from Slavita and Zitamir Prints
May 24, 2020
Israel
HaShenhav Building, 12 Beit Hadfus st , Jerusalem
Unique, high quality sale! "The Wolf Collection" - includes only books from the Slavita and Zitamir prints, which are extremely rare. All in good and excellent condition.
This auction also includes these particularly important items:
1. First Exposure of Radvil Sidur, Nosach Sfarad. One of two copies known to exist in the entire world.
2. A special collection of some fifty rare books printed in zitamir in small and miniature sizes.
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LOT 14:
Sefer 'Ohr Zarua' Two volumes. Zhytomyr 1862 and Jerusalem 1887. First editions.
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Sold for: $500
Start price:
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Auction house commission: 23%
VAT: 17% On commission only
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Sefer 'Ohr Zarua' Two volumes. Zhytomyr 1862 and Jerusalem 1887. First editions.
Sefer 'Ohr Zarua' by Rabbi Yitzchak of Vienna.
Volume 1: First part: Seder Zeraim, Nashim, Kadshim and Taharot. Second part: Seder Moed.
Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Yehushua Heshil Shapiro Press. Zhytomyr, 1862.
116 ; [2], 92 pages. 35 cm.
Sefer 'Ohr Zarua' by Rabbi Yitzchak of Vienna.
Volume 2: part 3: Bava Kama, Bava Metzia and Bava Batra. part 4: Sanhedrin and Avodah Zarah. With editing by Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn. Chaim Hirschensohn Press. Jerusalem 1887 -1890. Manuscript from the British Museum of London.
[2], 40, 53, 36; [2], 40 pages. 34 cm.
After disappearing for hundreds of years, the old parchment manuscripts were finally printed for the first time by Rabbi Akiva Lehren of Amsterdam who inherited them. The manuscripts have miraculously been found by a Paris fisherman after the boat they have been transferred has sunk.
Renewed cover, aging stains, Volume 3-4 torn and taped at the sides of some pages with light damage to the text. Without the short cover pages on colored sheet found on part of the copies before Bava Metzia and Bava Batra.
Good condition.
