Seder Tefilloth ke-Minhag Sepharadim [Prayer-book according to the Sephardic rite]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $500

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author

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

printer

Sétier

Place

Paris

Publication

1826

Description

Prayer for Charles X, King of France and Navarre (Interestingly, these leaves are unpaginated.)

references

Vinograd, Paris 115

summary

FIRST HEBREW PRAYER-BOOK PUBLISHED IN PARIS The book was edited by Abraham de Cologna, rabbi of Mantua, who earlier served as vice-chairman of the Napoleonic Sanhedrin, and later, after the fall of the Empire, as a member of the Central Consistory. In 1826, Cologna returned to Italy. See Simon Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin (1979), pp. 130, 186-7

ff. (2), 143. Stained. Calf-backed boards, spine distressed. 8vo

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