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Auction 48 · Lot 162

Machzor mikol Hashanah [Festival prayer book for the entire Year]. According to the Aschkenazi rite.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$800

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

author

(LITURGY)

printer

Tobias Foa-Vicenzo Conti

Place

Sabbioneta-Cremona

Publication

1557-1560

Description

Title within wreath-like or floral decoration over architectural columns. On verso, printer’s mark of Tobias Foa (Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, no. 21). Initials historiated. Ownership inscription on front flyleaf dated 1757.

references

Vinograd, Sabbioneta 42; Benayahu, Cremona 28
ff. (3), 29-57,60-288, 293-388 (= 357 of ff. 394). Ex-library. Stained and censored, opening three leaves from a shorter copy, margins of title frayed. Recent boards. Thick 4to
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