Machzor [High Holiday and Festival prayers]. According to theAshkenazic rite of Poland, Bohemia and Moravia. With Yiddish translation, Megilloth and Orchoth Chaim

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Machzor [High Holiday and Festival prayers]. According to theAshkenazic rite of Poland, Bohemia and Moravia. With Yiddish translation, Megilloth and Orchoth Chaim

Two volumes. Each with own title page set within an ornamental border. Wide margins Vol. I: ff. 26, 294. Vol. II: ff. 262, 16. Some staining and browning, previous owners’ signatures including Moritz Prager of Frankfurt a/Main and others. Some leaves loose. Contemporary blind-tooled calf boards with clasps (lacking hinges), rubbed and chipped, front cover and flyleaf of vol. I detached. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 992

Amsterdam: Drucker, Katz & Proops 1713

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $800

Contains a lengthy approbation from R. Tzvi Aschkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi, on the importance of a reliable translation to the prayers. The 16-leaf addendum of the Megilloth and Orchoth Chaim not noted by Vinograd