Auction 7 · Lot 468

Machzor Keminhag Polin [prayers for the entire year]. According to the custom of Poland. Volume II

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $6,000

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Joseph ben Judah Bak

Place

Weckelsdorf

Publication

1680

Description

Title within a decorative tyopgraphical border. Decorative woodcuts in margins, and unusual decorative woodcut opening letters

references

Vinograd, Weckelsdorf 1; Cowley p.538; Rosenfeld, Gazetteer 723

summary

DELETE: The only Hebrew book printed in the Czechoslovakian town of Wekelsdorf. See illustration in Posner & Ta-Shema, “The Hebrew Book, An Historical Survey (1975, p.210 With grateful thanks to Dr. Moshe N. Rosenfeld, London, for his bibliographic assistance INSERT: The printing of this Machzor commenced in Prague in 1697, whereupon the plague made it’s appearance in the city. The printers fled to nearby Weckelsdorf where they completed the publication (see St. Cat. Bodl. 2487). This is the only Hebrew book printed in the Czechoslovakian town of Wekelsdorf to date. No copy has appeared at auction for more than fifty years

ff. 72 (of 77), (2), 78-89 (out of 136). Lacking ff. 6,13,26,61-2, f.18 repaired with loss of text. Browned and stained. Needs rebinding.

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