Seder Tefilloth ke-Minhag Sepharadim [Prayer-book according to the Sephardic rite]

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Seder Tefilloth ke-Minhag Sepharadim [Prayer-book according to the Sephardic rite]

Prayer for Charles X, King of France and Navarre (Interestingly, these leaves are unpaginated.) ff. (2), 143. Stained. Calf-backed boards, spine distressed. 8vo Vinograd, Paris 115

Paris: Sétier 1826

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

FIRST HEBREW PRAYER-BOOK PUBLISHED IN PARIS The book was edited by Abraham de Cologna, rabbi of Mantua, who earlier served as vice-chairman of the Napoleonic Sanhedrin, and later, after the fall of the Empire, as a member of the Central Consistory. In 1826, Cologna returned to Italy. See Simon Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin (1979), pp. 130, 186-7