Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Collection of Haskalah Books – 1700s-1800s
Opening: $200
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Four Haskalah books from the 1700s-1800s:
• Eder HaYekar, geometry and architecture of the Temple, by Isaac Satanow. Berlin, [1772]. Lacking last [6] leaves (with folding leaf with illustration of Temple Mount). Stamp: "EX LIBRIS Abraham Kahana".
• Phaedo, "the book of immortality of the soul", by Moses Mendelssohn. Berlin, [1787]. First Hebrew edition. At beginning of book, mounted leaf with handwritten dedication and poem on the death of Socrates and immortality of the soul, signed "Zusman Krin".
• Mishlei, translation and commentary by R. Isaac Euchel. Vienna, [ca. 1800]. Illustration on title page.
• Devar Chochmah, five discourses by Chaim Stanover. Lviv, 1835.
4 books. Varying size and condition. Non-uniform bindings.
Poetry, Philosophy and Haskalah Literature
Poetry, Philosophy and Haskalah Literature