Shanah Chadashah [Blessings, customs and talismans for Rosh Ha’shanah]. Edited by JOSEPH CHAIM OF BAGHDAD (Ben Ish Chai)

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 79

(BAGHDAD)

Shanah Chadashah [Blessings, customs and talismans for Rosh Ha’shanah]. Edited by JOSEPH CHAIM OF BAGHDAD (Ben Ish Chai)

Title (on wrapper) within typographical border, printed in red. On lower cover, a cresent above two Ottoman flags with the rallying cry “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” in Judeo-Arabic pp.8. Lightly browned, stained in places. Modern wrappers with original printed wrappers bound in, taped repairs.12mo Yaari, Baghdad 197

Baghdad: Ezra Dangoor 1912

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

ONLY KNOWN COPY COMPLETE WITH ILLUSTRATED WRAPPER. The decoration on the lower wrapper is no doubt a tribute by the Jewish community of Baghdad to the Young Turks who were attempting to modernize the Ottoman Empire