Seder Tephiloth [daily and Sabbath prayers, with other selections]. According to Sephardic rite.

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 93
(LITURGY)

Seder Tephiloth [daily and Sabbath prayers, with other selections]. According to Sephardic rite.

<<Printed Entirely on Vellum.>> Printer’s device on title and final page. ff. 216. Stained in places, light wear through usage, repairs to lower corners of ff. 103-10 (home prayers for Friday evening) and with some loss of text. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, darkened, rebacked. Valmadonna-custom slip-case, with gilt-tooled morocco spine labels. Thick 24mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1794; Freimannn, Pergamentdrucke ZfHB Vol. 15 no. 152.

Amsterdam: Sons of the late Solomon Proops 1760

Est: $30,000 - $50,000
<<A luxury edition, finely produced in a neat lilliputian size, printed entirely on vellum.>> See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Vellum no. 39. A moving display of the spiritual devotion harbored by the well-to-do patron of this miniature liturgical edition. For despite the expense necessitated in commissioning this prayer-book on vellum, the unknown devotee of fine printing clearly recited and sang his prayers on a regular basis from this very volume. <<A first-rate example of the high quality inherent in the art of Hebrew printing that the presses of Amsterdam excelled in.>> For another copy of this rare vellum Siddur sold at auction, See Christie’s Amsterdam, Fine Judaica, 6th December, 1989, Lot 105.