Tephilah Nechonah LeShe’eilath Rachamim Be'Eith Tzarah [“Prayer for the Welfare of the Rulers of Holland & West Vriesland and the City of Amsterdam”]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 143

(HOLLAND)

Tephilah Nechonah LeShe’eilath Rachamim Be'Eith Tzarah [“Prayer for the Welfare of the Rulers of Holland & West Vriesland and the City of Amsterdam”]

Hebrew and Portuguese. With signature on opening blank of Isaac Berlin dated 1755 ff (4). Contemporary marbled boards, lacking front cover. 12mo Unrecorded. Cf. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1607. See Roest p. 699 for a similar pamphlet published the same year, with variances in the wording of the title)

Amsterdam: Orphans of Solomon Proops 1747

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $350

This petite prayer book issued by the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, offers a heavenly plea on behalf of the “great and powerful burgomasters of Holland and West Vriesland,” as well as Prince William Charles Henry Friso of Orange and Nassau (William IV). In 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession, France invaded Holland and defeated an allied British force in the Battle of Lauffeld near Maastricht. See Gans, Memorbook (1977), p. 179