Printing began in Germany, but Hebrew printing did not begin in Germany until the late 17th century. Prague preceded German territories in printing within the German speaking world. The chaos in Jewish eastern Europe pushed some of the Jewish population westward. The first Hebrew presses in Germany were actually established by Christians. The patchwork quilt of principalities also made in more difficult for those Jews wishing to engage in Hebrew printing to get the license of the various princes. However, ultimately, Jewish printers had a better understanding of the larger market for Jewish books - Jews.
Avraham ben Barukh. Be-derekh Alshukh: al Torah ve-Nevi'im
u-Khetuvim ... [Dyhernfurt], 1727. Small octavo, brown leather spine, edgeworn
marbled paper covered boards, 59 leaves, title page with decorative sha'ar cut
down at the edges with some loss of text to the verso, some of the internal
matter also cut down with possible loss though not significant. Hardbound.
Good. Text is in Hebrew. (83535) $195.00 
Ashkenazi, Bezalel ben Abraham. Shitah mekubetset ve-hu
Asefat zekenim ... hidushim al masekhet Betsah. Ofen, Gedrukt in der kenigl
ungr. Uniferzitets bukhdrukeriya, 1820. Large quarto, rebacked in hand-painted
paper covered boards, new endpapers, 30, 13 leaves [60, 26 pp.] Hardbound. Very
Good. Text is in Hebrew. With "Sefer Avodat Ha-Kodesh," also by
Ashkenazi from the same publisher on the same date. This is a later edition of
work from the 1600s. "To posterity Ashkenazi is known principally as the
author of the Shitah Mekubezet, (trans. Gathered Interpretation). This work, as
its title indicates, is a collection of glosses on the greater part of the
Talmud, after the fashion of the Tosafot; and in it Ashkenazi combined much
original and foreign material. The great value of the Shitah lies principally
in the fact that Ashkenazi gives therein numerous excerpts from Talmudic
commentaries which have not otherwise been preserved." Encyclopedia
Judaica. A large paper edition. (83570) $75.00
Buxtorf, Johannis and Abarbanel, Isaac. Dissertationes
philologico-theologicae : I. de linguae Hebraeae origine & antiquitate, II.
de ejus confussione & plurimum linguarum origines, III. de illius
conservatione & propagatione, IV. de literarum Hebraicarum genuina
antiquitate, V. de nominibus Dei Hebraicis, VI. de Coenae Dominicae primae
ritibus & forma, VII. vindiciae praecedentis dissertationis, VIII. de
lotione manuum Judaica ante & post cibum. Accesserent, R. Isaaci
Abarbanelis, Hispani, aliquot elegantes & erudititae Disserationes; I. De
Long & vitate primorum Patrum; II. De Statu & Jure Regio: III. De
JUDICUM & REGUM in V.T. convenientiis & differentiis: IV De miraculosa
statione Solis tempore Josue: V. De Peccato Davidis, numerantis populum: VI. De
Nomine Mosis: VII. De Idololatri & speciebus, quarum in SS. Literis mentio:
VIII. De Liborum Biblicorum Divisione; Ab codem ex Hebraea in Latinam Linguam
versae: Cum Indice Locrum Scritura explicatorum & illustratorum.
Cum
Privilegio. Basil, Jon. Jacobi Derkeri, Acad. Typographi, 1662. Octavo, full
vellum a few stained spots, paper labels on the spine with the lettering worn
away, ii, viii, 500 pp., foxed throughout. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Latin.
The contribution from Abarbanel takes up the last sixth of the book. Marvin Heller doesn't consider these sorts of items interesting in a Jewish context, but they have historically been included within the field of Jewish book-collecting. Christian Hebraism has always been motivated by internal interests. Those interests may or may not have served Jewish interests in the long run. Luther turned against the Jews. However, a knowledge of Jewish texts outside of the Jewish community has ultimately been beneficial. Christian Hebraism was the sharp edge of the wedge that offered the non-Jewish world an alternative to over a millenium's blind prejudice. (83547) $600.00
Dukes, Leopold. [A Palimpsest beginning with] Salomo ben
Gabirol aus Malaga und die ethischen Werke desselben. Mit einer Uebersicht der
meisten ethischen Werke der Araber. Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschicht der
Araber und Juden des Mittelalters. Erstes Heft. Hannover, Druck der
Telgener'schen Hofbuchdruckerei, 1860. Octavo, black cloth with worn gold
lettering, minor fraying at the top of the spine, marbled paper covered boards,
124, 84, 64, 36, 32, 58, 26, 40, 41 pp. Paper quality various from work to work.
Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in German.Additional works are 1) Joel, M., dargestellt von, "Don Hasdai Creskas' religiosphilosophische Lehren in ihrem geschichtlichen Einflusse," Breslau, Schletter'sche Buchhandlung, 1866. 2) Geiger, Abraham, "Leon da Modena, Rabbiner zu Venedig (1571-1648), und seine Stellung zur Kabbalah, zum Thalmud und zum Cristenthume," Breslau, Verlag von Joh. Urban Kern, 1856. With a section at the rear in Hebrew. 3) "Dr. Israel Hildesheimer: Eine biographische Skizze. Der Keinertrag dieser Schrift ist für die nothseidenden Juden in Westrussland bestimmt. Zweite Auflage." Frankfurt am Main, J. Kauffmann's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1870. 4) Nascher,Simon. "Moises Nascher (Oberrabbiner von Baja): eine exegetische Monographie." Berlin SW : Friedrich Stahn, 1879. Lacking the portrait of Moises Nascher. 5) Ben Jechiel. "Kritische Streiflichter auf das Berliner Judenthum." Berlin, In Commission bei J.M. Späth, 1866. 6) Manheimer, Veit Friedrich, "Rabbiner Abraham Kohn, ein Märtyrer seiner Zeit: eine biographische Skizze." Stettin, Verlag von Friedrich Nagel, 1856. 7) Geiger, Abraham, "Die letzten zwei Jahre: Sendschreiben an einen befreundeten Rabbiner." Breslau, M. Friedländer, 1840.
A compilation of short works by various authors engaged in the Wissenschaft des Judentums enterprise. (83548) $180.00
Eybeschuetz, Jonathan. Ve-natati el hoshen ha-mishpat et
ha-urim ve-et ha-tumim, Helek Rishon. Karlsruhe, Ernst Lebrecht Schniebes,
1775. Quarto, full brown leather, chips at the spine ends and minor cracking,
with old and very soiled cloth ribbon ties on the open edge, i, 204 leaves [ii,
408 pp.], long note in an old rabbinic hand on the free front endpaper, mild
soiling. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. The first of two volumes published
in the same year. This work, like almost all of Eybeschuetz's output was
published posthumously. A commentary on the Hoshen Mishpat section of Joseph
Karo's 'Shulkhan Aruch." (83583) $250.00 
Hagiz, Moses. Sefer Shete ha-lehem: minhah hidushah. Bound
with an additional work, "Sefer Mishnat hakhamim helek rishon ve-gam sheni
she-be-rishon melaket ha-k.M.H. [ha-katan Mosheh Hagiz], zeh yatsa rishonah
le-havin imre binah; de-shanu hakhamim bi-leshon ha-Mishnah ... be-geder
ma'alat ... arba'im u-shemonah ma'alot li-keniyat ha-Torah ... ; Kodesh la-H.
zo nishmat hasidim; de shanu kan hakhamim .... Wandsbek, Be-vet ha-madpis
Yisra'el bar Avraham, 1732/3. Squarish octavo, brown leather with wear to the
spine at the ends and with lesser wear to the boards primarily at the edges, 59
leaves (118 pp), 138 leaves (276 pp.), foxing throughout. Hardbound. Good.
Texts are in Hebrew/ The second work is also from the same place, publisher and
year (roughly) as the first. The first of the two works is an ethical study.
The second is responsa. Wandsbek, now a borough of Hamburg was in Hagiz's time
one of the three small cities that comprised the "Drei Gemeinde," a
union of small Jewish communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek. Hagiz became
the official censor for Hebrew books in 1726. Between two and three dozen
Hebrew books were published in the short period when he served as censor. Many
were Hagiz's. Though a scholar of accomplishment, Hagiz is best known for his
continuing battle with the Sabbatean heresy in the Land of Israel and Amsterdam
as well as elsewhere. (83560) $395.00 
Horowitz, Isaiah. Sefer Kitsur Shene luhot ha-berit ...
Offenbach, Isra'el ben Moshe Shlit, 1724. Octavo, rebacked in brown cloth,
stubs of a few blank pages inserted by the binder have been roughly torn out,
soiled endpaper, 82 leaves (164 pp.), some foxing particularly to the last few
pages. Hardbound. Good-. Text is in Hebrew. Horowitz's son Shabtai published
the first edition in 1648. Jehiel Michal ben Abraham Epstein, ha-Levi edited
and abridged the work for publication first in 1693. It became a very popular
work in the teens and twenties of the eighteenth century. This one of many
editions published in that period. (83545) $250.00 
Margolioth, Moses ben Judah Löb. Sefer Hakirat ha-gemul: bo
be'arti inyan sekhar ve-onesh ... be-'ikvot Hazal. Ofen, 1829. Duodecimo, half
black cloth with remnants of spine labels, marbled paper covers, lacking the
free front endpaper, 71 pp., list of subscribers, errata list. Hardbound. Good.
Text is in Hebrew. (83792) $150.00 
Muenz, Jacob. Sefer
Peri Ya'akov: ve-hu hidushim al sugyot shonot ba-Shas ... [im] ezeh
he'arot ... Helek Rishon/ Pri Jakob; ein commentar auf mehrere stellen im
Talmud. Ofen, Gedrukt in der Keniglikhen Ungarishen Uniferzitets-Bekhdrukeray,
1830. Quarto, rebacked in hand-painted paper covered boards, new endpapers, 23
leaves, [46 pp.] Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. (83571) Ofen is here a place name most specific to the Hebrew imagination. It is generally referred to as Alt-Ofen and is now part of the larger Budapest area. $75.00
Naftali Hirsh ben Yeshayah, mi-yalde k.k. Firda. Sefer
Naftali ayalah sheluhah: ve-hu hibur ... al hokhmot ha-mispar she-khorin bi-l.
A. Tsifur melukat ... be-kitsur nimrats
... : she-yukhal kol adam li-lemod me-atsmo ... Furth, Tsevi Hirsh ben Yosef
Segal, 1698/9. Octavo, blue cloth spine, marbled paper covered boards, remnants
of paper labels, soiled and mildly repaired title-page, 14 leaves. Hardbound.
Good. Text is in Hebrew. (83534) Fuerth, along with Wilhelmsdorf and Sulzbach were part of a larger market emanating from Prague. The community, like all of the Bavarian Jewish communities, was never very large. At its peak it never exceeded four thousand. However, the market for Fuerth printings probably included all of Bavaria, from the other cities as well as the many small farm towns. Printing in Fuerth began in 1689 and about ten titles appeared a year in the 1690s. The pace of printing picked up in the 18th century and continued but with lessor production into the mid-19th century. $350.00
Obornik, Mayer [Meir Obernik] [Meir Abernik], translated
into Judeo-German by. Kitve kodesh: nidpasim me-hadash u-mehudarim be-tosafot
rabot. Sefer Yermiya im targum Ashkenazi u-ve'ur me'et Meir Obernik ve-nilvah
elav ha-korem ve-hu tosafot Bi'ur ve-Tikun Ha-Targum hibru Ha-Hakham Ha-Torani
Ha-Mesaprim... Herts Homberg. Ve-od Nosef La-Zeh Perush Rashi. Vienna, Gedrukt
bey Anton Schmid, k.k. priv. und N. Ö Landschaftsdeutsch und orientalischen
Buchdrucker, 1817. Octavo, brown leather with a red label with gold lettering
on the spine, wear to the spine surface and the extremities, decorative
endpapers, steel-plate engraving or Obornik opposite the title page, title page
sports an engraving depicting Jeremiah being raised from the pit by a team of
soldier's led by Ebed-Melech the Kushite, 396 pp., errata on the final page,
some foxing to a few pages, a few lines of old pen on the early and late blanks (dated 1884 on the
late blank) Hardbound. Very Good-. Text is in Hebrew and Judeo-German with the
commentaries of Rashi, Bi'ur (Moses Mendelssohn, et al), and Ha-Korem (Herts
Homberg). Preface by Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev. Volume ten in a set of eighteen
volumes. As traditional in appearance this volume is in many ways it is a
through product of the Haskalah. Mendelssohn is the central presence of course,
but the commentary by Homberg is an important Haskalah addition. Homberg was a
radical education reformer in Jewish schooling in the Northern Italy and then
in the Austro-Hungarian empire, first in Galicia, then Bohemia and eventually
on matter affecting all of the Jews of the Empire. He allied himself strongly
with the authrorities, but was considered so extreme that even they treated him
with some suspicion. The preface to the volume is by Ben-Ze'ev who was another
important Haskalah figure. He received a traditional upbringing but he proved
to be a more academically oriented mind that a spiritual heart. His main areas
of study were grammar and lexicography. After various struggles to find a place
in the world he was able to find employment with Anton von. Schmid. Obernik appear as one of the toleratd Jews in
Vienna - as long as he remiained in the employ of von Schmid. Ben-Ze'ev who
arrived after the 1804 list of tolerated Jews was promulgated was probably added
to the list in the same capacity. It appears that Schmid was able to gain this
protection for his workers. This was probably as result of the type of
materials that were published and their use to the Imperial authorities.
(83555) $75.00 
Reischer, Jacob ben Joseph. Sefer Hok Ya'akov: ve-hu ...
pilpula harifa ... be-hilkhot Pesah. Bruna, Be-vet uve-defus almanah
Frantsis´ka Naimanin, 1764. Octavo, half-brown cloth with wearto the spine
cracking along the spine edges, marbled paper covers, ii, 138 pp., some foxing,
strong graphic design of the title page using large woodcut letters, three
pages bear attractive printers devices.
Hardbound. Good-. Text is in Hebrew.Brunn could be a variety of different places. It is not Brno because the Jews were excluded from Brno in long before and after the year that this item was published. This is an enigma for a greater scholar than myself. (83561) $250.00
Rubin, Shemu'el ben Azri'el mi-Lanzburg. Amude Olam : ...
be-agadeta uvi-shemaateta ... Berlin, Bi-defus Aharon ben Mosheh Rofe, 1741.
Octavo, brown leather spine with minor wear, marbled paper covered boards a
little shorter than the text block on the open side, 48 leaves, (96 pp.),
boards are thin. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. (83563) $195.00
Yehudah Aryeh, of Carpentras. Sefer ohole Yehudah ...
ve-hineh ha-mehaber ... ha-rav ... Yehudah Aryeh me-k.k. Karpentrats ... ben
... ha-rav ... Tsevi Hirsh ... me-k.k. Krotoshin. Yesnits, Y. Avraham, 1718/9.
Octavo, lacking the backstrip, edgeworn marbled paper covered boards (old but
possibly not contemporary), no free endpapers, 57 leaves [114 pp.], water-staining
throughout. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. "A Hebrew dictionary, in
which special attention is paid to proper names,' including their
etymology," Encyclopedia Judaica. (83569) $195.00
Seder selihot: ha-makdimin la-amod le-ashmoret ha-boker
le-khol roshe shanim: ke-minhag medinot Mehrrin, Piheym, Ungarin, Shleziya kefi
she-nidpesu me-shanim kadmoniyot. Brünn, Gedruckt ben Joseph Karl Neumann,
1784. Octavo, traces of the brown leather spine on the boards, lacking the
backstrip, edgeworn marbled paper covered boards with significant loss to the
marbled paper on the front board and minor loss on the rear board at the
edges, 87 leaves [174 pp.], 30 leaves
[60 pp.] , title and lead words are printed from woodcuts rather than lead
type. Hardbound. Fair. Text is in Hebrew in large letters (otiyot gedolot).
Rare. (83541) $195.00
Masekhet Zevahim im Perush Rashi ve-Tosafot u-Piske Tosafot u-Perush Ha-Mishnayot Meha-rambam z"l. With Masekhet Menahot and Masekhet Bekhorot. The eighth of ten volumes which include thirty-three individual tractates and were published between 1720 and 1722. Frankfurt am Main, Yohan Kelner, 1721. Folio, full leather over wooden boards with raised bands, blind stamping on the boards and spine, possibly contemporary paper label on the spine, scuffing at the spine ends and edges, wood exposed at the corners, with remnants where the bolts of from the support of two metal clasps otherwise absent, foxed endpapers, with some worn spots to the free front endpaper, i, 126, 115, 73 leaves. Individual title pages for each of the tractates. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. Vinograd Frankfurt am Main # 398, 405 and 397. The set appears as twelve volumes in some recent auction listings but is cataloged at a ten volume set in Worldcat. The tractates appear to have been printed individually. They could easily have been bound in varying groupings. (83843) $195.00Sources
Jewish Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Judaica
Heller, Marvin. Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. Leiden, Brill, 2008.
Hundert, Gershon David, edited by. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. In Two Volumes. New Haven, Conn., Prepared for publication by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Studies for Yale University Press, 2008.
Vinograd, Yeshayahu. Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book. Jerusalem, The Institute for Computerized Bibliography, 1993.
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