Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Sold for: $625
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Kol Todah Rinah UTefillah, prayer service in honor of visit of Emperor Napoleon I and his wife Marie-Louise to the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Belinfante Katz, 1811. Hebrew and French on facing pages.
Additional title page in French.
[22] pages. 26 cm. Wide margins. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Old cardboard binding, with minor defects.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Three prayer booklets printed in Amsterdam following an earthquake that devastated Lisbon in 1755:
• Zeh Seder HaYom, prayer booklet of Ashkenazic community. Amsterdam, [1756].
[2] leaves. 23.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Without binding.
• Seder VeTikun Techinot UBakashot, prayers for earthquake, edited in Portuguese community of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, [1756].
4 leaves. Lacking last 2 leaves. 15.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Colored paper binding, partially detached.
• Orden de las oraciones para el dia solemne de Ajuno... miercoles 18 febrero 1756, order of prayers and thanks, translated from Hebrew by R. David son of Refael Meldola and R. Avraham Yeshayah Bassan. Amsterdam, 1756. Spanish.
16 pages. 15.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Small marginal tears to first leaves. Original paper binding, torn and detached.
The present booklets were printed after the Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, one of the most destructive earthquakes in history, which completely devastated Lisbon and caused a tsunami and heavy damage even to faraway European cities. The official day of thanksgiving, 17th Adar I 1756, was participated in by both Christians and Jews.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Printed booklet, Seder Hanhagat Beit HaKnesset, year-round synagogue customs. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham Proops Katz, 1759. Most of text in Yiddish.
Includes 54 customs and ordinances of the Amsterdam synagogue.
Some words on title page in red ink.
9, [1] leaves. 15.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Printed booklet, Zot Chanukat HaBayit, order of inauguration of the Ashkenazic synagogue on Uilenburg street in Amsterdam, Friday, 24th Elul 1766. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops Katz, [1766].
Illustrated title frame, with angels playing trumpets. At top of title header, Star of David with emblem of the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam.
Includes Tehillim, poems and prayer established by the head of the community, R. Shaul Lowenstam of Amsterdam. List of community officials at bottom of title page.
[4] leaves. 24.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and folding marks. Tears, repaired with tape (many repairs to margins and in some places to middle of leaves, over text). Light worming. New binding.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Statutes of the Gemilut Chasadim Chevra Kadisha of the Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, comprising statutes and customs, list of members and more. Amsterdam: Yaakov Proops, [1776]. Hebrew and Yiddish (in Tzenah URenah font).
Title page illustrated with bones, skulls and undertakers' tools. Part of illustration appears later within book. All leaves have text within a printed frame.
Original leather binding, with gilt decorations, and gilt inscription of owner's name on front of binding: "F[irst] treasurer [Yocha]nan Bing", apparently the person whose name appears first on the list of treasurers printed in the book.
[1], 27 leaves. 16.5 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains. Tear to title page, affecting frame, repaired with tape to verso. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Defects to binding.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Triumphos da Virtude, sermaõ pregado, a occasiaõ do natalicio de sua altesa serenissima Guillermo V° – Triumph of Virtue, a sermon delivered by R. David HaKohen D'Azevedo, rabbi of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam, in honor of the birthday of William V, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and Prince of Orange-Nassau, on March 8, 1788. Portuguese and some Hebrew.
That year, during the struggle between the Patriots fighting for a democratic rule in the Netherlands and the Orangists who supported the prince's rule, the Talmud Torah community of Amsterdam declared its loyalty to the House of Orange. The prince repaid them with a visit to the Esnoga, the community's synagogue (on which occasion the present sermon was presumably delivered), and with his greetings, extended in part in Hebrew.
[2] leaves, 26 pages. Approx. 25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including light dampstains. Marginal tears to several leaves, repaired with tape. Several leaves detached. Old paper binding, partially detached, with tears across spine.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Printed booklet, ordinances for supervisors (mashgiachs) of cheese, enacted by R. Shaul Lowenstam in 1845, with additions and various ordinances enacted by rabbis of the Etz Chaim Beit Midrash in Amsterdam. Amsterdam: David Proops, [1846]. Yiddish (only title page printed in Hebrew).
Includes 27 ordinances for kosher supervisors of cheese, and the requirement for expertise in cheesemaking, kosher vessels and Sabbath and holiday observance.
[2], 2-11 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Light wear. Early paper binding, somewhat worn.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
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Fifteen calendars in pocket format, printed in Amsterdam in the 19th century. Amsterdam: David Proops, Hertz van Embden and partners, J.L. Joachimsthal, 1829-1885. Hebrew and Dutch.
Twelve calendars in original parchment binding, serving as a sort of closable case. Some incorporate reused parchment and paper (for endpapers).
The calendars also include illustrations of zodiacs and various notes with information relevant to the Jews of Amsterdam and the Netherlands.
15 calendars in 14 volumes. Varying size and condition.
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Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Jul 15, 2025
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
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Collection of handwritten leaves, various sermons and letters on Torah topics. [The Netherlands and Western Europe], ca. 1846-1860.
• Large double leaf (4 pages), sermon for Shavuot 1848. Western Yiddish.
• Double leaf, Torah letter addressed to R. Leizer Oppenheim of Gouda (southern Netherlands). [Name of sender torn from leaf]. Rotterdam, Adar 1846.
On verso of second letter, two handwritten pages, notes handwritten and signed by "Leizer Oppenheim".
• Another copying of the same notes, concluding with his signature: "Leizer Oppenheim, 1860".
• Leaf (2 pages) from a Torah sermon delivered on Shabbat Parashat Behar, 10th Iyar 1859.
• Leaf (2 pages), sermon for Parashat Haazinu [handwritten by the same R. Eliezer Oppenheim].
6 items (comprising approx. 13 written pages). Varying size and condition.
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