Seder Tephiloth [prayers through the year]. According to Sephardic rite.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Chez Levi

Place

Paris

Publication

1808

Description

French inscription at front, dated 1887.

references

Unrecorded by Vinograd.

summary

The earliest recorded Hebrew prayer-book to be issued in Paris is dated 1826. This beautifully printed, unrecorded little Siddur was printed in Paris a full eighteen years earlier.

ff. 167, 17, 168-226. Touch stained, fore-edges painted red. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, expertly repaired. 16mo. Housed in custom solander-box.

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