Machzor - Sepher Kerovoth [Festival Prayers for the final days of Sukoth (Shemini Atzereth and Simchath Torah)].

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(ROTHSCHILD)

printer

Wolf Heidenheim and B.M. Baschwitz

Place

Roedelheim

Publication

1802

Description

With German translation (in Hebrew characters) and Hebrew commentary by Wolf Heidenheim. Additional title. Printed on thicker paper. THE CARL MAYER ROTHSCHILD COPY. Spine gilt-tooled with Hebrew title and “C. M. Rothschild.”

references

Vinograd, Roedelheim 15.

summary

Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788-1855) was the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples. Born Kalman Mayer Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main, he was the fourth of the five sons of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743–1812), founder of the Rothschild dynasty.

ff. (2), 115, 12. Lightly browned. Contemporary mottled calf, all edges gilt, scuffed. 8vo.

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