Kestenbaum and Company: Rare Hebrew Books, from the Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul. Part II., 113, Brooklyn

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Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 199 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 HAGIZ, YA'AKOV.

Halachoth Ketanoth [responsa, including Shemoth Gittin (a list of proper names as required in a Bill of Divorce)].

Venice 1704 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
53

Group of Fifteen volumes.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,500.00
54

Group of Thirteen volumes.

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,500.00
55

Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah portion].

Venice 1605 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 750.00
56

* Talmud Bavli. Four volumes. * Maimonides. Mishneh Torah. Two volumes. * Yalkut Shimoni. * Ein Ya'akov. * Mishnayoth. * Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

printed by the Horeb Verlag of Berlin. Berlin USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 812.50
57 HOROWITZ, PINCHAS ELIYAHU.

Sepher HaBrith.

Brunn (Brno) 1797 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
58 HOROWITZ, YESHAYA. (SheLa'H HaKadosh).

Shnei Luchoth HaBerith. Issued with: Vavei HaAmudim by Author's son Shabthai Sheftel Horowitz.

Amsterdam 1698 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
59 IBN GABIROL, SHLOMO.

Mivchar HaPeninim ["Choice of Pearls."]

Venice 1546 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
60 IMMANUEL BEN SOLOMON OF ROME. (Manoello Giudeo).

Sepher HaMachbaroth LeMar Immanuel.

Brescia 1491 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
61 ISAAC NATHAN BEN KALONYMOS.

Meir Nathiv [Biblical concordance].

Venice 1524 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,250.00
62

Seder HaHa'arachah VehaHanhagah [communal regulations and obligations].Title within architectural arch.

Mantua c. 1783. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 343.75
63

Group of Eleven rabbinic volumes, all printed in Italy.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,062.50
64 JAFFE, MORDECHAI.

Levush Malchuth [elucidations and novellea to the Shulchan Aruch].

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,062.50
65

Group of Eight volumes.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,125.00
66 Eliyahu Moshe Gallina.

Chochmath HaYad. Text in pointed Hebrew and Yiddish. With stamp of Ben-Zion ben Ya'akov Ettlinger. pp. 20. Zhitomir, 1868.

Zhitomir. Livorno 1868. 1792 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
67 KAGAN, YISROEL MEIR OF RADIN. (The Chofetz Chaim).

Nidchei Yisrael.

Warsaw 1897 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
68 KAGAN, YISROEL MEIR OF RADIN (The Chofetz Chaim).

Sepher Chofetz Chaim. Warsaw 1877.

Warsaw 1896. 1895 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
69 KALATZ, YEHUDAH.

(Zeh HaSepher Hamepho'ar...) Sepher HaMussar [ethics].

Constantinople 1536-37. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,250.00
70 KARO, YITZCHAK.

Toldoth Yitzchak [novellae to the Chumash].

Mantua 1558 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,000.00
71 KARO, YOSEPH.

Shailoth U'Teshuvoth; Nashim - Even Ha'Ezer [responsa, with Talmud novellae]. Includes responsa by R. Yitzchak Karo relating to Yibum.

Salonika 1597 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
72 KARO, YOSEPH.

Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law]:

Amsterdam 1746 1749 and 1753. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
73 KAYARA, SHIMON. (Attributed to) / (Ba'al HaBeHa'G).

Halachoth Gedoloth [Gaonic Rabbinic Code].

Venice 1548 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 625.00
74 KIMCHI, DAVID (RaDa'K).

Sepher HaShorashim ["Book of Roots": Biblical lexicon and grammar].

Naples 1491 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
75 KIMCHI, DAVID (RaDa'K).

Sepher HaShorashim ["Book of Roots": Biblical lexicon].

Salonika (1533). USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,750.00
76 KIMCHI, DAVID (RaDa'K).

Sepher HaShorashim ["Book of Roots": Biblical Lexicon].

Venice 1546 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 500.00
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