Tzenah URenah, Yiddish commentary on the Torah, haftarot and Five Megillot, by R. Yaakov Ashkenazi of Yanov (Janów Lubelski). Sulzbach: Zekel son of Aharon, [1789].

Many illustrations incorporated in the text (woodcuts).

Ownership inscription on endpaper.

266 leaves. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Inscriptions. Old binding.

Talmud Bavli, with Rif and Sefer HaTzava, Tractates Beitzah and Niddah. Metz: Moshe Mayer, 1768-1770. Two volumes.

Both tractates in small format (two Talmud pages equivalent to one in normal editions). Only some tractates were printed in this edition.

Ownership inscription.

Tractate Beitzah: 102, [1], 17,
33-39, [1]; 43, 41-46; 21 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper, affecting text of one leaf. Signature. Old binding.

Tractate Niddah: [3], 142, [2], 143-172; 44; 30 leaves. 20 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves, and marginal open tears to title page at beginning of volume, slightly affecting text of one leaf. Original leather binding.

Title page with decorative frame at beginning of Tractate Niddah, not recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.

Yaarot Devash, sermons by R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz, two editions:

• Yaarot Devash, Part I. Karlsruhe: printer not indicated, [1779]. First edition.

[4], 116 leaves. 21.5 cm. Partly dark paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to title page and several other leaves. Deleted ownership inscriptions on title page. Old binding.

• Yaarot Devash, Parts I-II. [Zhovkva]: Gershon son of Ze'ev Wolf [Letteres], 1798. Lviv: Aharon son of Chaim David Segal, [1799]. Both parts in one volume.

At beginning of book, engraved portrait of R. Yehonatan Eibeshitz (absent from some editions). Engraving by artist Jos. Seher (signature in plate, truncated), after an earlier 1764/1765 engraving by Dr. Elimelech Fulda. This portrait was the subject of an invective by R. Yaakov Emden.

Part I: [1] portrait leaf; [1], 106 leaves. Part II: [1], 3, 5-65, 59-74, 71-72, 156-160, 61-73 leaves. 21 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text. Many tears to title page of Part I, with tears to portrait leaf and several other leaves, affecting text and illustration, partially repaired with paper. New binding.

Three books printed in Germany, in the 18th century:

• Chok Yaakov, on the laws of Pesach, by R. Yaakov Reischer. Jessnitz, 1724. Ownership inscriptions of "R. Yaakov of Nikolsburg, currently here in Hanover, 1712".

• Torat HaBayit [HaKatzar], by the Rashba. Berlin, [1771].

• Zera Avraham, novellae on several tractates by R. Avraham Yisrael Kohen. Hamburg, 1799. Stamps of the Beit Midrash of the Altona Kloiz.

3 books. Varying size and condition. Non-uniform bindings.

Sefer HaPardes, halachic rulings by Rashi, with novel laws and instructions from Sefer HaOrah. Constantinople: Refael Chaim Eliyah Pardo, [1802]. First edition.

[1], 68 leaves. 29.5 cm. Varying condition of leaves, fair to good-fair. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, in many places on first and last leaves, affecting text. Margins of title page reinforced with tape. Old binding, with defects.

CB, no. 6927, 74.