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Auction 41 · Lot 230

Seder Tephiloth LeChodashim U'LeMo’adim [prayers for the entire year]. According to the Sephardi rite

Estimate
$4,000–$5,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(MINIATURE BOOK).

printer

Naphtali Hertz Levi Rophé

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1739

Description

Prepared by Meir Crescas. Divisional title on f. 223

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1505

summary

A MOST ATTRACTIVE COPY IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING. “A delightful miniature prayer-book in Hebrew is the Seder Tefilloth according to Sephardi rites, printed by Dr. Naphtali Herz Levi in Amsterdam in 1729 [sic]." L.W. Bondy, Miniature Books (1981), p.31
ff. 318. Slightly foxed in places, otherwise a fine copy. All edges gilt. Contemporary blind-tooled colored vellum with murex shell motifs, spine in compartments, starting. Housed in contemporary slip box with green floral patterns. 32mo
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