(LITURGY). Machzor Sephardim Le’yamim Noraim [festival prayers for The New Year]. According to Sephardic rite.

Estimate

$700–$1,000

Hammer price

$900

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

author

(BINDING).

printer

Francesco Mouki

Place

Florence

Publication

1735

Description

Engraved Biblical frontispiece. Title printed in red and black.

references

Vinograd, Florence 2

summary

No copy in the JNUL. x-ref women.

ff. (3), 120. Stained in places, previous owner’s inscrptions on front free end paper. Contemporary crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled with floral border-piece centered on a decorative cartouche depicting a pair of love-birds with Attributes including a quiver of arrows a torch and a tamborine, surrounded by flourishes and arabesques, upper cover gilt-tooled with the name “Ester DePaz.” Spine in compartments, green morocco inlaid spine lable titled in gilt Hebrew letters, gilt extras, Dutch marbled endpapers, clasps and hinges, (lacking one hinge), a.e.g. 8vo

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