Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Huge Collection of Endpapers with Inscriptions, Signatures and Stamps – Rebbes, Rabbis and Torah Scholars
Opening: $500
Sold for: $5,500
Including buyer's premium
Huge collection of over 1,800 endpapers and pastedowns from various printed books, bearing signatures, stamps, dedication, ownership inscriptions and family inscriptions, bibliographical inscriptions, glosses, Torah novellae and other inscriptions, by rebbes, rabbis, dayanim, shochatim, mitzvah functionaries, Torah scholars, and other persons of note – from Europe and worldwide, Eretz Israel and the United States, from the 17th to 20th centuries.
The collection includes leaves of books owned by Chassidic rebbes and their families, and Torah scholars from Jerusalem and Eretz Israel, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, Hungary, Galicia, Germany, the United States and many other communities throughout the world.
The pages include leaves owned by Rebbe Mordechai Dov Twersky of Hornostaipil, Rebbe Yissachar Leib Weinberg and his father Rebbe Shmuel Weinberg of Slonim, R. Chaim Elazar Wachs Rabbi of Kalisz, R. Meir Shapiro Rabbi of Lublin (founder of Daf Yomi), R. Shmuel Salant, R. Chaim Berlin, R. Yitzchak Blazer Rabbi of St. Petersburg, R. Pinchas Zimtbaum Rabbi of Grosswardein (Oradea) and his son-in-law R. Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss author of Minchat Yitzchak, R. David Weisskopf Rabbi of Wallerstein (disciple of the Chatam Sofer), and others.
See Hebrew description for more names of rabbis whose leaves are included in the present collection.
The present collection includes leaves with inscriptions and signatures that have not been thoroughly examined, and almost certainly contains many signatures and inscriptions of other distinguished personages as well.
Over 1,800 leaves. Varying size and condition. The collection has not been thoroughly examined, and is being sold as is.
Chassidut – Books of Important Ownership
Chassidut – Books of Important Ownership