Auction 14 · Lot 256

(LITURGY)

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

Joseph Athias

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1664 & 1689

Description

Machzor Sephardim Le’yomim Noraim [festival prayers for the High Holy Days]. According to Sephardic rite. TITLE PAGE ONLY PRINTED. Title within decorative typographical border. Single leaf. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 314; Fuks, Amsterdam 387]. * BOUND WITH: Machzor Sephardim Le’yamim Noraim [prayers for the Days of Awe]. According to Sephardic rite. Additional engraved title depicting the Temple Service. ff. (1),311 (of 312), lacking f.129. f.136 and last leaf loose. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 571; Fuks, Amsterdam 401].

summary

Only the title page has been preserved of the rare 1664 edition of Machzor Sephardim Le’yomim Noraim. It would seem that no more was ever printed. See L. Fuks, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, Part II, no. 387

Few light stains in places, guttered. Later blind-ruled black morooco, a.e.g., Dutch marbled endpapers, spine defective, upper cover loose. 12mo

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