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Auction 19 · Lot 157
(MINIATURE BOOKS).
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $1,400
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
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Description
Group of c. 38 Miniature Books. Including: (Liturgy). Seder Tephiloth Le’moadim Tovim [festival prayers]. According to Sephardic rite. Part II only. ff. 223-318. Previous owner’s inscription: “Moses Mendoza Sr. Sunday, 13th Tammuz 5597 - 16th July 1837,” on rear paste-down. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco, gently rubbed. 32mo. [Vinograd, Amsterdam 1505; and see L.W. Bondy, Miniature Books (1981) p.31]. Amsterdam, Naphtali Hertz Levi Rophe, 1739. * (Bible, Hebrew. Psalms). Sefer Tehillim. pp. 378. Original gilt-tooled crimson cloth. 32mo. Vilna, Widow and Orphans Romm, 1885. * Zsidósors Somogyban 1944 [Jews in Somogy County in 1944]. Text in Hungarian. No. 38 of a limited Edition of 100. pp.62. Original boards with brass plaquette inlay. Oblong 32mo. With c. 35 others similar, including scrolls, majority 19th-20th century
Variusly worn, variously bound
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