Tephilah Nechonah LeShe’eilath Rachamim Be'Eith Tzarah [“Prayer for the Welfare of the Rulers of Holland & West Vriesland and the City of Amsterdam”]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $350

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

author

(HOLLAND)

printer

Orphans of Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1747

Description

Hebrew and Portuguese. With signature on opening blank of Isaac Berlin dated 1755

references

Unrecorded. Cf. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1607. See Roest p. 699 for a similar pamphlet published the same year, with variances in the wording of the title)

summary

This petite prayer book issued by the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, offers a heavenly plea on behalf of the “great and powerful burgomasters of Holland and West Vriesland,” as well as Prince William Charles Henry Friso of Orange and Nassau (William IV). In 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession, France invaded Holland and defeated an allied British force in the Battle of Lauffeld near Maastricht. See Gans, Memorbook (1977), p. 179

ff (4). Contemporary marbled boards, lacking front cover. 12mo

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