Tephiloth Yisroel - Gebete der Israeliten.

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 240

(ROTHSCHILD).

Tephiloth Yisroel - Gebete der Israeliten.

Text in Hebrew and German. Translated by J.N. Mannheimer. <<Henrietta Rothschild Montefiore’s Prayer Book. Spectacular custom family binding.>> Bolted maroon velvet-covered boards with metal corners and clasps. With central sunken silk inlays on covers. Front illustrated with the Ten Commandments in Hebrew lettering, the rear with name Henrietta Rothschild. Spectacular gauffered gilt edges. Gilded fore-edge with three exquisitely painted color cartouches, most likely her (surviving) children. Silk endpapers. pp. 432. Very minor dampstaining. Velvet along joints slightly abraded and sunned. 8vo.

Vienna: 1857

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

<<Henrietta Rothschild Montefiore’s prayer book in exquisite binding with stunning gauffered gilt edges. >> Henrietta Rothschild (1790-1866) was the daughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. In 1815, she married the English financier, Abraham Montefiore (brother of Sir Moses Montefiore). Together, they had four children: Joseph Mayer (1816-80), Nathaniel Mayer (1819-83), Charlotte Simcha (1818-54) and Louisa (1821-1910). This sumptuously bound prayer-book depicts three of Henrietta Rothschild’s four children. Tragically, her daughter Charlotte, had died three years before this volume was produced.