Order of prayer for the entire year according to the customs of Germany and Poland. Sulzbach, 1824. Miniature.

Specifications: 264 leaves, 7.8 cm.

Background: Vowelized miniature prayer book. Arranged nicely and precisely. For weekdays, Shabbat and festivals and for the High Holy Days. With Pirkei Avot, and with the Torah portions for Mincha on Shabbat and Mondays and Thursdays. With Tefillat HaDerech and Tefillat HaYam.

Unique Features: Especially rare prayer book. Not found in the National Library, and to the best of our knowledge, also not found in the large public libraries around the world. Listed in Otzar HaSefer HaIvri, Sulzbach 564 according to Weinberg, Magnusw, Die hebräischen Druckereien in Sulzbach, 682, without having seen the book.

Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains. Gilded page cuts. Original leather binding with gold embossing. Abrasions on the spine.

Seder Tefillat Yisrael, with prayers for the entire year in a small volume. Prague, 1841. Especially rare prayer book.

Specifications: 192 leaves, 9 cm. The last leaves were not bound in order, but the prayer book is whole.

Unique Features: Miniature prayer book for the entire year, for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals, and the High Holy Days. The prayer book is not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and is not found in the National Library. Other prayer books which are listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and found in the National Library were printed in Prague in the same year.

It is extremely rare to find a miniature prayer book in such good condition.

Condition: Very fine. Gilded page cut. Slight abrasions on the spine. In an original cardboard container covered in original marbled paper.

Machzor Moadei Hashem [the Ma'ariv prayer and the Pesach Haggadah] according to the custom of the Sephardim. Corfu, at the printing press of Yosef Nachmoli. 1877. Extremely rare.

Specifications: 52 leaves, 19 cm. Otzar HaHaggadot 1490. Ginzei Yisrael- Mehlman Collection 351.

Content: Contains the Ma'ariv prayer and the Pesach Haggadah. With piyutim at the end of the Haggadah according to the Ashkenazi custom.

Unique Features: Very few Hebrew books were printed on the island of Corfu by the printer Nachmoli, and some were printed in a limited number of copies. It seems that the Haggadah before us with the Ma'ariv prayer is part of a machzor for the entire year which was never printed. A similar Haggadah was printed in Corfu in the same year by the name Arvit V'Haggadah Shel Pesach. However, on the title page before us, "Machzor Moadei Hashem ... Chag HaMatzot" is printed. "Arvit V'Haggadah" is printed on the second leaf, and on page [25]: "Haggadah."

Background: For more information about the Hebrew printing press in Corfu, refer to: Haberman, Defusei Corfu (in: Perakim B'Toldot HaMadpisim Ha'Ivrim). The rare Haggadah before us is no. 2.

Condition: Moderate-fine. Slight tears in the margins.

Machzor L'Ymei HaSelichot and Hatarat Nedarim. The first Hebrew book printed in Bombay. Bombay, 1841.

Specifications: [1] 41 [1] leaves, approximately 20 cm. Lithographic print from a manuscript.

Unique Features: Extremely rare book. The entire book is written in vowelized print. Brought to print by Shalom Sharabi. He was a Jew who came from Yemen, lived in Cochin and later in Bombay, served as a poet, cantor, ritual slaughterer and mohel, and had a tremendous influence on the 'Bnei Israel' in India (refer to: A. Ya'ari, HaDefuss HaIvri B'Artzot HaMizrach, part two, page 52).

The first Hebrew book printed in Bombay, refer to: Moshe Rosenfeld, Hebrew Printing from its Beginning until 1948, Jerusalem, 1992, number 898. However, several years prior to the printing of this book, a missionary printed a book in Marathi which was aimed at Jews in Bombay, but this is the first Hebrew book printed there. Refer to Ya'ari, ibid.

Content: 'G-d in Heaven, give life and peace to our master and king,' is printed on page 20. In the manuscript, the words 'our master and king' are in parentheses and the words 'to our mistress the queen' are written. In this period, India was part of the British empire, which was ruled over by Queen Victoria. Ya'ari, Reshimat HaSefarim Shenidpesu B'Bombay, no. 90.

Condition: Fine. Aging stains. Original blemished leather binding.

Selichot for the High Holy Days, and for Shovavim Tat, with a list of Selichot for 20 Sivan. The Selichot were printed in large, vowelized print. Poritsk, at the printing press of Rabbi Mordechai Mardush, 1805.

Specifications: [114] leaves, paper, 18 cm. 9x18 cm.

Background: The printer, Rabbi Mordechai Mardush, son of Rabbi Hillel, was rabbi of Poritsk. A fire broke out in 1804 which destroyed the printing press. The parts of the machines that were saved were transferred to the rabbi's house, where the book before us was printed. Only one other book is known to have been printed there.

Unique Features: Especially rare book. Not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, not found in the National Library. Among the largest public libraries in the world, it is found in the JTS library. There is a known edition of Selichot printed in Poritsk in 1794 with Yiddish, but it is not similar to the Selichot before us.

Condition: Leaves 2, 11-12 are missing. Aging stains. Paint stains, wear and tear on the edges of the title page. A few leaves have small tears. Fine condition.