Slichot M’Kol HaShanah K’Minhag K”K Ashkenazim … un Teitch Geshtalt Amsterdam, Hertz Levi Rofeh Press. 1735.
Specifications: 14, 190 leaves, 25 cm.
Beautiful edition of selichot for the whole year in large letters with Ivri Teitch, and with shacharit for weekdays. Written on the title page: Third Part, as a continuation from the Amsterdam machzors of 1733 which one of the two printers of this book had printed.
The printer also printed an edition without Ivri Teitch the same year. The edition before is especially rare.
Condition: Very fine. Chafed original leather binding.
Prayers for the weekdays, Shabbat, fasts, three pilgrimage holidays, Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, based on “Nusach HaAri,” by publisher Shlomo Moussaieff. Jerusalem, Zukerman press. [1893-1895]. Six volumes.
Specifications: Section one: Weekday siddur. [3], 14, 236, [1] leaf. Two title pages, the first in color. Section two: Siddur for Shabbat. [2], 122; 152 leaves. Two title pages, the first in color. Section three: Seder for the five fasts. [1], 240 leaves. Section four: Siddur for the festivals. [1], 30; 9, 17-301 leaves. Section five: Siddur for Rosh HaShanah. [1], 102, 9, 17-136 leaves. Section six: Siddur for Yom Kippur. 81, 252 leaves. 16 cm.
Siddur and machzorim for the entire year in the Sephardic nusach, with kabbalistic laws and customs. Published by Rabbi Shlomo Moussaieff, who moved from Bukharah and helped found the Bukharim neighborhood in Jerusalem and built the Moussaieff Synagogue. Includes his introduction and some biographical information. With enthusiastic approbations from Jerusalem rabbis, Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elishar, Rabbi Shmuel Salant, and Rabbi Eliyahu Manne of Hebron. Siddurs and machzors proofread by Nissim ben Ezra Eini are particularly significant, because he was both an expert in grammar and tradition and a noted kabbalist and sage.
Unique Features: Important set of prayer books that were a significant landmark in the development of siddurim in the sephardic nusach. It is related that the Ben Ish Chai recommended using them for prayer. Many Sephardic prayerbooks are based on this one. Complete sets, with all the color title pages, are very hard to find.
Condition: Fine, other than aging and usage stains. Section 1 has slight tears to solitary leaves, with slight blemish to the text. Three beautiful leather bindings and three simple half-leather ones.
Order of prayer for the Days of Awe, o rder of prayer for the festivals and o rder of prayer for fast days. According the the Sephardic customs, by Rabbi Shmuel Rodriguez Mendez. Amsterdam, 1726.
Specifications for the o rder of prayer for the Days of Awe: 220 leaves, 15 cm. With the HaNoten Teshuah prayer also in Spanish.
Specifications for the o rder of prayer for the festivals: 175 leaves, 18 cm. With Passover Haggadah, with instructions in Ladino. Magnificent leather binding with gilt embossing.
Specifications for the o rder of prayer for fast days: 126 leaves, 18 cm. Haftarah for Tisha B’Av, with Spanish translation. Leather binding with gilt embossing.
Before us are three parts out of a set of four volumes. Lacking the order of prayers for weekday and Shabbat. The set was also printed for the Marranos who had immigrated to Amsterdam. The entire set is in-demand, but uncommon.
Condition: Overall fine condition. Antique leather bindings with slight blemishes.
Siddur as per the Italian community’s custom. Leghorn, 1861. Miniature.
Specifications: 288 leaves, 9 cm. Including prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals and high holidays. All with vowelized letters. With the prayer for our Jewish brothers and Marannos … which is recited after the Torah reading. The LaMenatzeach psalm is printed on the first page in the form of a menorah. That year, a different edition was printed as well, which is also found in this catalog.
Condition: Very fine. Original magnificent leather binding with slight abraisions. Red page cuts.
Beit Tefilah . Siddur per the customs of the Sephardic community for weekdays, Shabbat and holidays. Leghorn, [1861]. Miniature .
Specifications: 207, [1] leaf. 9 cm.
Unique Features: The last leaf [1] features the “LaMnatzeiach BeNiginot” hymn in the shape of a menorah. This leaf is not listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and is not in the copy in the National Library. Another edition of this prayer book was printed in Leghorn this same year – it also appears in this catalog.
Condition: Very fine. Original leather binding with gold embossing. Gilt edges.
Seder Tefilot L’Moadim Tovim per the Sephardic customs. Amsterdam, at Yosef Attias press. 1689.
Specifications: [1] 295 leaves, 15 cm. The title page notes: Proofread with all our efforts from the mistakes that were printed in previous prayer books.
Unique Features: Opens with an eye-catching copperplate engraving of eating the Passover sacrifice. This engraving is not included in all copies.
Condition: Fine. Aging stains. Tears with slight loss on leaf 31-32. Simple binding.
Yom Kippur Katan prayers. Exceedingly proofread and beautiful, portable and easy for anyone to carry. Karlsruhe, 1799. Miniature.
Des cription: [48] leaf, 9.5 cm.
Background: Printed in very large letters, with Ivri-Teitsch instructions in Tzenah U’Re’enah lettering.
Unique Features: Uncommon prayer book. With owners’ signatures.
C ondition: Fine. Aging stains. Old, worn semi-leather binding.
Psalmes and Lamentations but Published, without the Points or Vowels … By William Robertson … London, 1656.
Specifications: [1], 4 leaves; [2], 96, 70-81, 109-156, 149-191; 15 pages, 14.5 cm.
Background: There are a number of variants of this Psalms. Before us is the Psalms and Lamentations in Hebrew only, in unvowelized letters. Following the title leaf; introduction by the historian William Robertson four leaves, followed by one leaf of a name index.
Unique Features: First Hebrew Book of Psalms printed in London. The expulsion of Jews from England was in 1290, and only after hundreds of years – in the 1650s – did Jews return to England. Following the vigorous activities of Menashe ben Yisrael, Oliver Cromwell was convinced to permit the Jews’ return. The first Jews began to come to England in 1655 while the government turned a blind eye. The Psalms before us were published only one year after the first Jews came to England.
Condtion: Very fine except for blemishes on the margins of the title page and the subsequent page. The blemishes damage solitary letters. New binding.
Psalms with the Tehillot Yaakov commentary by Rabbi Yaakov U”S [Uri Shraga] Feivel. Hamburg, [1784]. Only edition.
Specifications: 65, [1] leaf. About 32 cm.
Background: Psalms with lengthy commentary by Rabbi Uri Shraga Feivel, rabbi of Zlatova. Commentary through chapter 41. The author [1710-1780] also authored Beit Yaakov Eish [Frankfurt A.M., 1775] and Rishpei Eish [Altona, 1779]. This work was printed posthumously, with a foreword by his son and publisher and prominent approbations.
Unique features: Uncommon work.
Condition: Very fine, other than slight blemishes to the corners of the title page. New, simple binding.
Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, with Latin: Psalmi Davidis, Proverbia Salomonis, Ecclesiastes, et Canticum Canticorum Hebraice cum interlineari versione Santis Pagnini. Paris, 1632.
Specifications : [8] leaves, 416 pages, 19 cm.
The Latin translation is interlinear, with grammatical notes on the margins of the pages. The first leaves contain a dedication to Cardinal Richelieu [Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu], and an introduction to the Book of Psalms by an anonymous author, both in Latin. The title page bears a large emblem of the printer, Sebastiani Cramoisy. Printed as a separate book and not as part of a Bible.
Condition: Fine. Blemish on the title page’s margins and the following page without damage to the text. Aging stains. Chafed antique leather binding.
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, with Latin translation: Psalmi Davidis, Proverbia Salomonis, Ecclesiastes et Canticum Canticorum. Hebraice cum interlineari versione Santis Pagnini, Benedickti Arie Montani & aliorum collato studie, ad Hebraicam dicktionem diligentissime expensa. Publishers Kappa Alin, Geneva [1616].
Specifications : [8] leaves, 334 pages, 19 cm.
The Latin translation is interlinear. Includes a long introduction in Latin. Printed as a separate book and not as part of a Bible. The year of printing according to Steinschneider is 1052.
Unique Features: Rare book, recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to a copy from private collection.
Condition: Very fine. Few again stains. Original parchment binding.
Psalms, exquisitely reprinted with Rabbeinu David Kimchi’s commentary, and the addition of new prayers. Amsterdam, printed by Yaakov Proops. [1778].
Specifications : [1], 281 leaves. 12 cm.
Unique Features : Handsome miniature Psalms with the Radak’s commentary. With Shimush Tehillim and various prayers, including Pidyon Nefesh according to the Ramban, Tefillat Avot al Banim, and more. The verses were numbered numerically.
The same year, a similar edition was printed in Amsterdam, without the Radak’s commentary.
C ondition: Fine. Some aging stains. Old damaged leather binding, lacking front part.
