Tephiloth Yisroel - Gebete der Israeliten.

(ROTHSCHILD).

Vienna

1857

Text in Hebrew and German. Translated by J.N. Mannheimer. Henrietta Rothschild Montefiore’s Prayer Book. Spectacular custom family binding. Bolted maroon velvet-covered boards with metal corners and clasps. With central sunken silk inlays on covers. Front illustrated with the Ten Commandments in Hebrew lettering, the rear with name Henrietta Rothschild. Spectacular gauffered gilt edges. Gilded fore-edge with three exquisitely painted color cartouches, most likely her (surviving) children. Silk endpapers.

Henrietta Rothschild Montefiore’s prayer book in exquisite binding with stunning gauffered gilt edges. Henrietta Rothschild (1790-1866) was the daughter of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. In 1815, she married the English financier, Abraham Montefiore (brother of Sir Moses Montefiore). Together, they had four children: Joseph Mayer (1816-80), Nathaniel Mayer (1819-83), Charlotte Simcha (1818-54) and Louisa (1821-1910). This sumptuously bound prayer-book depicts three of Henrietta Rothschild’s four children. Tragically, her daughter Charlotte, had died three years before this volume was produced.