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Lot 27

Year-Round Machzor – Six Volumes – London, 1807 – Engraved Portrait of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell

Year-round machzor set following to the Polish rite, for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach, Sukkot and Shavuot, with English translation. London: E. Justins, [1807]. Six volumes.
Illustrated title page at beginning of each volume.
In the first volume, engraved frontispiece portrait of R. Solomon Hirschell Berliner, Rabbi of London, captioned in Hebrew and in English: "Portrait of the illustrious Torah scholar, R. Shlomo son of R. Tzvi, Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in London and the country, illustrious descendant of R. Heshel and Chacham Tzvi" / "The Rev. Solomon Hirschell; Chief Rabbi of the German and Polish Jews in England".

Six volumes. Rosh Hashanah: [2], 13 pages, 14-26, 232 leaves, 11 pages. Yom Kippur, Part I (Maariv, Kol Nidrei, Shacharit): 250 leaves. Yom Kippur, Part II (Musaf, Minchah, Neilah): [1], 212 leaves. Sukkot: [1], 240 leaves. Pesach: [1], 266 leaves. Shavuot: [1], 185, [7] leaves. 22-23.5 cm. Some leaves slightly browned. Overall good condition. Stains. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. Gilt edges to two volumes. New bindings.

Vol. I of Yom Kippur not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Vol. II of Yom Kippur recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book as having only 199 leaves (as does one of the copies in the NLI), while the present copy has 212 leaves.