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Illustrated Title Pages in Upcoming Auction Catalog

September 7, 2009 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

This Thursday, Kestenbaum & Co. is having an auction. The catalog is available online and the viewing takes place this week. For those interested in some highlights, the website provides those. But, I wanted to highlight a theme that hasn’t been noted. First, a quick background regarding Hebrew book auctions. [Note, this is not a comprehensive attempt.] There are five auction houses that concentrate on Hebrew books, Kestenbaum, Judica Jerusalem, Asufa, Baronovitch, and, a recent entry, Kedem. While all five…

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Shavua HaSefer sale on Hardrives

June 16, 2009 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

Annual Shavua HaSefer sale on computerized (digital) Seforim Libraries. 1) Otzar HaChochma This year the sale will be 30% off the regular price. The sale will be from June 7 thru June 27. The prices are as follows: Full version (30,300 vol.) reg. 1920 sale $1299 Bnei Torah version (29,000 vol.) reg 1720 sale $1175 Library version (30,300 vol.) reg 1120 sale $820 There are also TWO additional optional sections that can be added to any of the above versions:…

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New Books from Biegeleisen – May 2009

May 8, 2009 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

See here for the previous lists. Halkhot Gedolot, Berlin-Hildesheimer ed., Otzreinu, Toronto, 2009, 2 vol., 22, 162, ; 652 pp.: This is a reprint of the important Geonic work based upon a different manuscript than the other printed editions. Additionally, it includes a new brief introduction and additions to the Seder Rav Amram Goan also published by Otzeinu. Kol Brisk, Jerusalem, 2009, 797 pp. This is a controversial work that explores the Brisk school and attempts to locate the current…

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Upcoming Auctions

March 23, 2009 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

Additionally, the first edition of two important siddurim are here as well. The Siddur Sha’ar ha-Shamayim from R. Isaiah Horowitz, the Shelah (lot no. 174) and R. Y. Emden’s Siddur, (lot no. 101). Another important first edition of a liturgical work is R. Meir Ibn Gabbai’s Tola’ath Ya’akov (lot no. 187) with the rare poem page. Another work that contains a rare page is the Hon Ashir from R. Immanuel Ricci. (Lot no. 195) This work, a commentary on the…

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New Books from Biegeleisen

March 11, 2009 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 32 comments

While Eliezer is in the midst of preparing a comprehensive list of new seforim issued in the past months, I wanted to provide a shorter list of new seforim that I have recently received from Biegeleisen. All of these are of course available at Biegeleisen in Boro Park (and I assume elsewhere as well) and some will be reviewed in greater detail in the coming months. Batim le-Vadim, Yaakov Mosowitz, Beni Brak, 2008, 663 pp. a collection of laws and…

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Upcoming December Auctions

December 8, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 1 comment

In the next few weeks there are a bunch of auctions. First, is Sotheby’s auction of the “Delmonico” collection. This collection, of an anonymous collector, is amazing. It includes fifty incunabula with the balance of the auction being 16 and 17th century books. Included in the later portion are volumes of the first edition Bomberg Talmud printed on blue paper. These are the only known copies of these volumes. The incunabula includes the first edition of the Rambam’s commentary on…

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Baranovich Auction

November 13, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

Yeshiva Ahavas Torah, Baranovich is having an auction Wednesday, November 19th. One can download the catalog here. While I don’t intend to cover the whole catalog, I want to briefly highlight a few items. Those interested in early Hebrew/English primers (or English Hebraica) and the like should take a look at lots 12-17. For those interested in early 20th century American figures, such as Rodkinson and Eisenstein, see lot 62 for Eisenstein’s quasi-autobiography, Otzar Zikronoti . And for a polemic…

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Upcoming Auctions

June 24, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

Additionally, for those interested in incunabula, R. David Kimchi’s (RaDaK) Sefer ha-Shorashim, Naples 1490 is for sale. It is worth noting that a tremendous amount of incunabula – by my count some 96 titles! – are available online at the JNUL Digitized Book Repository including this edition of the Sefer ha-Shorashim. To have access to so many rare titles is extrodinary. Even if one has access to a library that has a few incunabula it is difficult to view them…

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SEFORIM HARD DRIVES SALES UPDATE etc.

June 11, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

The Otzrot HaTorah (AKA “The Morgenstern Library”) is now ON SALE thru June 30. The library contains 13,000 volumes in the “regular” version and 14,000 volumes in the “expanded” edition. The SALE prices are as follows: Expanded edition: Reg. price $1990 SALE price: $1480. Standard edition: Reg. price $1480 SALE price: $1160. There is a payment plan of (up to) 20 monthly payments. Payments can be made by cash, check or credit card. For those making a one time payment…

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Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List

June 2, 2008 Eliezer Brodt Comments 2 comments

Book week just began in Eretz Yisroel. As I wrote last year Every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of about ten days called Shavuah Hasefer-book week. Shavuah HaSefer is a sale which takes place all across the country in stores, malls and special places rented out for the sale. There are places where strictly “frum” seforim are sold and other places have most of the secular publishing houses. Many publishing houses release new titles specifically…

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Sale On Hebrew Book Harddrives

May 15, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 19 comments

This year the sale will be 33% off the regular price of Otzar HaChomah. The sale runs from May 13 through June 7. The prices are as follows: Full version (25,800 vol.) reg. 2275 sale 1520 Bnei Torah version (24,500 vol.) reg 2050 sale 1370 Gemara v’Halacha (18,700 vol.) reg 1525 sale 1020 Tanach u’Midrash (17,200 vol.) reg. 1525 sale 1020 also an additional 2,400 from Kehos Publishing is $70 All of the above include a “search engine” which is…

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New Auction Catalog

March 23, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 6 comments

Kestenbaum & Co.’s latest auction catalog for its auction on April 3, 2008, is available online. The auction includes a collection of important bibliography catalogs including, Koheleth David, the catalog of R. David Oppenheimer’s books that eventually went to the Bodleian Libary; Ohel Avraham, catalog of R. Avraham Merzbacher, this catalog was complied by R. Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinowich the author of Dikdukei Soferim; Likutei Shoshanim, the catalog of R. Mattisyahu Straschun’s library (this library in part went to YIVO…

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Books Sale and New Auction Catalogs

January 7, 2008 Dan Rabinowitz Comments 0 Comment

Henry Hollander Books is having a 50% off sale on selected books. There are a significant number of books on sale, covering many different genres. The catalog is available online and the sale runs through the end of January. There are two auction catalogs online. The first, Asufa, who is having their auction on Janaury 24 is available here. The second, Baranovich, is having their auction on the 23 of January and you need to first fill out a form…

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A Comprehensive (or close to it) List of New Seforim

January 2, 2008 Eliezer Brodt Comments 1 comment

In a recent Mishpacha article [November 28, 2007, ‘Seforim Supplement’, p. 48] they quote Shlomo Biegeleisen, of Biegeleisen Books, as saying that “they receive sixty new seforim every single week!” The seforim market has exploded in the past few years and continues to grow daily. While it is impossible to keep up with everything that comes out we hope to keep the readers updated from time to time with some of the interesting things that are printed. This current list…

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New Book List December 2007

December 13, 2007 Eliezer Brodt Comments 0 Comment

As previously mentioned before from time to time we hope to write up lists of new seforim with a short description. Here is a list of some new seforim that came out in the past few weeks [some of these seforim will be the subject of their own longer posts]. Iggeret Hamussar (Jerusalem, 2007); 269 pages. This sefer is the last will and testament of the Rambam (with nikkud) that he wrote to his son R. Avraham. This work has…

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