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Ashkenazic-Rite Siddur, with Tehillim and Techinot – Yiddish Translation – Amsterdam, 1786 – Original Wood and Leather Binding, Adorned with Silver Clasps

Year-round siddur following the Ashkenazic rite, with Tehillim and techinot; with Yiddish translation (in Tzenah URenah typeface). Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe, his brother-in-law Baruch and brother Hertz, [1786].
Divisional title page for the Book of Tehillim and techinot. Original leather wooden binding, with gilt decorations on both sides of binding and spine, and with silver clasps (with hallmarks of Amsterdam, dated 1795).

243; 92; 144 leaves. 19 cm. Gilt edges (with some gauffering). Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding and clasps. Minor defects to binding.

A similar Polish-rite edition was published the same year. The present Ashkenazic-rite edition is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or the NLI catalogue.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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