Machzor im Kavanoth HaPaytan [Festival prayer-book for the New Year and Day of Atonement]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 23

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Machzor im Kavanoth HaPaytan [Festival prayer-book for the New Year and Day of Atonement]

Aschkenazic rite with translation and commentary into Judeo-German. Additional engraved title in green and red. <<The Lidy Cohen copy>> with her morocco ownership label on upper cover. Wide margins. Some staining. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, London 110.

London: Alexander & Son 1785

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Lydia Cohen (nee Diamantschleifer) was the wife of Levi Barnet Cohen, founder of the distinguished (Waley-) Cohen family - a fixture upon Anglo-Jewish life for more that two centuries. Lydia bore nine children, including Hannah, who became Mrs. Nathan M. Rothschild; and Judith, who became Mrs. Moses Montefiore. See Cohen Family Pedigree in EJ, Vol. V col. 659; and C. Bermant, The Cousinhood (1971) pp. 175-76.