Sepher Mo’adei Hashem u-Keri’ei Mo’ed [for Three Festivals; includes Passover Hagadah with kabbalistic meditatons]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $300

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Israel ben Abraham (Bak)

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1843-44

Description

Two volumes. Vol. I: Passover and Pentecost. Vol. II: Tabernacles. Two titles with woodcuts of the Temple Mount. Vol. I has additional title within typographic border

references

Vinograd, Jerusalem 22, 33; Halevy 19, 20

summary

First machzor printed in Jerusalem. With the haskamoth (encomia) of the Rishon Le-Tzion (Sephardic Chief Rabbi), Chaim Abraham Gaguine, and the Chief Rabbi of Damascus, R. Jacob Antebi. On f. 51v. of Vol. I the blessing for the Turkish Sultan states “Peloni” (Anonymous) rather than “Abdulmecid” as in other variants. See Halevy, p. 12

I: ff. (5), 4-20, 25-97, 62, 41-68. II: ff. (2), 5-108, 77. Marginal repairs to title of Vol. II. Both volumes stained. Second volume wormed. Recent endpapers. Vol. I contemporary red morocco, gilt. Vol. II contemporary blind-tooled calf with florets, rebacked. 4to

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