Group of [10] Books, Some First Editions / Notations / Signatures

Group of [10] Books, Some First Editions / Notations / Signatures

* Zichron Ya'akov - three volumes,  with the author's portrait, Frankfurt am Main, 1924. First edition.

Historiography by Rabbi Ya'akov HaLevi Lipschitz. Three parts bound together. Separate title page for each part. Frankfurt am Main, 1924. Each part has the author's portrait. Important book of Jewish history in Russia and Poland 1760-1880. Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Ya'akov Lipschitz.

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* Sefer Machzikei HaDat - two parts - explains the necessity of Machzikei HaDat membership, by Rabbi Ya'akov HaLevi Lipschitz. Pietrkov, 1903. First edition.

In this book, the author transcribes letters from dozens of rabbis whom he was privileged to serve. 106 pp.

* Sefer Rosh Amanah - roots and major principles of faith by Don Yitzchak Abarbanel. Altona, 1770. [3], 1-25, 29-35, [1] leaf.

* LaYesharim Tehillah - Poem of friendship by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato - Ramcha"l. With introductions by Rabbi Shlomo of Dubna. Warsaw, 1857. Additional title page in German.

* Alim LeTerufah - Iggeret HaRamba"n and the Gr"a's iggeret, with translation into Ivri Teitch. Warsaw, 1856.

* Sefer Mosdei Chochmah - mathematics and geometry by the controversial Jewish scientist Chaim Zelig Slonimsky. Vilna and Horodna, 1834. First edition.

“Including all educational science and pure science [mathematics] … algebra, simple and complex.” This is the first book published by the Jewish scientist who studied in cheder and innovated many inventions that were ridiculed in his generation but became realities after many years.

* Kaneh Chochmah: Five Topics in Algebra. Vilna and Horodna, 1829. One of the earliest Jewish books on algebra. First edition. Signatures.

“Including Five Topics in Algebra.” The book was written in a question-and-answer format about the science of mathematics with the topics of the questions coming from Jewish tradition.

* Yalkut Nachamani, two volumes, 1937. Plagiarized. With enthusiastic approbations from leading Admo"rim who were unaware that the book was a fraud. "It occurred to him to buy the books and change their name, and then publish them under his own name ..." - Rabbi Menachem Kasher.

* Machzor Vitri, Nuremberg, 1923. Machzor by Rabbi Simchah of Vitri, a disciple of Rash"i's, with a comprehensive introduction. Compilation of hymns, with a dedicated title page. Title pages in Hebrew and in German. Signatures.

Various sizes and conditions; overall fine condition.