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M. Roest, Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L. Rosenthaľschen Bibliothek (Amsterdam 1875). On Roest, see, e.g., L. Fuks, ‘Meijer Roest Mz, de eerste conservator van de Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana’, Studia Rosenthaliana 1 (1967) 4–22 (with a bibliography of Roes’s writings); J. Meijer, Meijer Marcus Roest (1821–1889). I: De biografie van een bibliograaf; II: Bronnenboek (Heemstede 1980); J. Meijer, Naoogst: M.M. Roest 1855–1862 (Heemstede 1991).
See F.J. Hoogewoud, ‘Bibliografie van de geschriften van J.M. Hillesum’, Studia Rosenthaliana 20 (1986) 217–229, nos 13, 21.
E.g., ‘Sämmtl. Bibliographen unbekannt’, in his Catalog der reichhaltigen Sammlungen hebräischer und jüdischer Bücher und Handschriften, Kupferstiche, Portaits etc., nachgelassen von Giuseppe Almanzi in Padua [⋯] (Amsterdam 1868) 12, no. 143.
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See, e.g., Sotheby’s London, Hebrew books and works of art (12–13 February 1986) lot 7: ‘Hebrew books printed in Strassburg are rare’.
Sotheby’s London, Hebrew books and works of art (4 February 1988) 11, lot 44.
See Brisman, A history and guide to Judaic bibliography, 42.
Christie’s Amsterdam, Fine Judaica including a highly important mediaeval illuminated Hebrew manuscript (21 June 1989) 142–149, lot 390.
E.g., Christie’s London, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts (9 July 2001) 20–33, lots 7, 8.
Ibid., and Christie’s New York, Important Hebrew manuscripts and printed books from the Library of the London Beth Din (23 June 1999) 9.
Christie’s East, New York, The A.L. Shane Collection of Judaica and Hebraica (24 June 1998) 184–189, lot 455.
Ibid.
Christie’s also consulted Adri K. Offenberg to work on Hebrew incunables; see, e.g., Christie’s New York, Important Hebrew manuscripts [...] (cf. n. 17) (Offenberg worked on lots 3, 5, 17, 18, 19, 33, 50, 61 and 105).
E.g., Sotheby’s Tel Aviv, Judaica (11 October 2001) 13f., lot 13, and 22ff., lot 21.
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Such as my own work, Christie’s East, New York, An important illustrated Hebrew manuscript (24 June 1998), describing an unrecorded lavishly illustrated miniature 1721 Passover Haggadah, by Meshullam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna (Bohemia).
A. Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Jews’ College, London (Oxford 1886, reprint Westmead, Hants. 1969).
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Schrijver, E.G. (2004). Modern Auction Catalogues of Jewish Books: Commerce Meeting Scholarship. Some Methodological Reflections. In: Berger, S., Brocke, M., Zwiep, I. (eds) Zutot 2003. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2628-5_21
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