Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Polish Jews. With Psalms and Techinoth. Divisional titles

AUCTION 33 | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Seder Ha’tephiloth Mikol Ha’shanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Polish Jews. With Psalms and Techinoth. Divisional titles

Contemporary vellum binding, elaborately gilt-tooled and hand-colored in green, red and black inks within an arch form and central obelisk, embellished with birds, flowers, tooled scrolls and flourishes on upper and lower covers ff. (1), 243,105,144. Lightly stained in places, a.e.g. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 2156

Amsterdam: Jochanan Levi Rophé 1786

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

a beautiful Dutch, hand-colored vellum hebrew binding A quite unusual and uncommon work of craftsmanship. The central motif on the covers of a pair of cherubs supporting a crown indicate the owner was one of the Elders of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Congregation. See M. Gans, Memorbook p.189 for other examples of fine Dutch-Jewish bindings ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR FUTURE USE: See Chaya Benjamin, The Stieglitz Collection [The Israel Museum, Jerusalem] (1987), p. 286, no. 196 (includes facsimile of binding), for a practically identical binding. Item is Passover Hagadah (Hamburg, 1762)