Shanah Chadashah [Blessings, customs and talismans for Rosh Ha’shanah]. Edited by JOSEPH CHAIM OF BAGHDAD (Ben Ish Chai)

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BAGHDAD)

printer

Ezra Dangoor

Place

Baghdad

Publication

1912

Description

Title (on wrapper) within typographical border, printed in red. On lower cover, a cresent above two Ottoman flags with the rallying cry “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” in Judeo-Arabic

references

Yaari, Baghdad 197

summary

ONLY KNOWN COPY COMPLETE WITH ILLUSTRATED WRAPPER. The decoration on the lower wrapper is no doubt a tribute by the Jewish community of Baghdad to the Young Turks who were attempting to modernize the Ottoman Empire

pp.8. Lightly browned, stained in places. Modern wrappers with original printed wrappers bound in, taped repairs.12mo

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