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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Year-round siddur according to the rite of Ashkenaz, Poland, Bohemia and Moravia, with Yiddish translation. Amsterdam: Gerard Johann Janson for Tzvi Premsla, [1776]. Printer's device depicting a deer (Tzvi) standing on its hind legs, on title page and leaf 161.
Polish rite siddur, mostly with line-by-line Yiddish translation in Tzenah URenah font.
Leaves 161-170: Pirkei Avot in Yiddish translation, with printer's device of Tzvi Premsla, dated 1777.
Dedication from a grandmother to her granddaughter, in early Ashkenazic script, on a piece of paper mounted inside front board.
4, 194 leaves. 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Light wear and signs of use to beginning of book. Marginal open tears to several leaves, slightly affecting text of one leaf, repaired with paper filling. Title page attached to front binding, detached from rest of book. Various bookplates and stamps. Original leather binding, with gilt decorations. Wear, tears and defects to binding (with repairs).
Does not include second title page and 15 leaves of Torah readings at end, apparently included only with some copies.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Tefillah Zakah – Sephardic-rite siddur for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals and holidays, with commentaries, halachot and customs of Livorno community, edited by R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo. Livorno: R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo and R. Eliezer Saadon, [1789-1792].
Edited by R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo, who added a commentary and customs of Livorno, until his death, when the printing continued posthumously.
Printed during the lifetime of the Chida. This is the first siddur to print halachic rulings by the Chida.
R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo (1726-1789), a rabbi and printer of Livorno, preacher and poet. The Chida, asked to give a Shabbat Shuvah sermon in place of R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo about a year after his passing, praised him profusely on that occasion.
The present siddur is an important and rare source of customs of the Livorno community.
R. Avraham Yitzchak Castilo's press, established in 1780 along with R. Eliezer Saadon, printed many important books, including most of the books of the Chida.
[6], 112, 114-136, 138-228 leaves. Lacking 2 leaves: 113, 137. 17.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Tears and open tears, extensively repaired with paper on margins of first leaves (around entire margins of title page), affecting text. Old binding, with leather spine and corners. Defects to binding.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Machzor set, Ashkenazic rite, with Targum and German translation (in Hebrew characters). Rödelheim: R. Wolf Heidenheim and Baruch Baschwitz, 1800-1805. First edition. Complete nine-volume set.
Fine set, printed on thick, high-quality paper, in original leather bindings (all volumes placed in original cardboard cases).
Two title pages in each volume.
These machzorim garnered enthused approbations and praise from such leading Torah figures as the Haflaah, the Chatam Sofer and the Baal HaTanya.
R. Wolf (Ze'ev) Heidenheim (1757-1832) was an exegete, grammarian and renowned Masoretic scholar. His press in Rödelheim printed his grammatical works, accurate editions of the Torah, and his celebrated machzorim.
On endpapers of all volumes, ownership inscriptions in Hebrew and Latin characters (dated 1819).
Nine volumes.
Volume I (first and second days of Pesach): [6], 104; 12 leaves.
Volume II (seventh and eighth days of Pesach): [3], 2-14; 116; 12 leaves.
Volume III (Shavuot): [8], 10; 12; 124; 12 leaves.
Volume IV (first day of Rosh Hashanah): [2], 103, 12 leaves.
Volume V (second day of Rosh Hashanah): [2], 99, 12 leaves.
Volume VI (Yom Kippur eve): [1], 56, 16 leaves.
Volume VII (Yom Kippur): [3], 68, 12, 22, 41, 12, 28, 12, 33, [1].
Volume VIII (first and second day of Sukkot): [8], 12, 63, 10, 12 leaves.
Volume IX (Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah): [2], 3, [1], 115; 12 leaves.
19.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Signs of wear. Tears in several places. Open tear across margins in one volume, affecting text. Bookplates on all volumes. Original leather bindings, uniform, with original color endpaper, in cardboard cases. Defects to bindings and cases.
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![Order of Sefirat HaOmer and Birkat HaLevanah. Amsterdam: David son of Yaakov Proops, [1817].
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Order of Sefirat HaOmer and Birkat HaLevanah. Amsterdam: David son of Yaakov Proops, [1817].
Small miniature format, with fine original leather binding, with gilt decorations.
The book opens with the blessing for counting the Omer and with the prayer recited after the counting. This is followed by the full text for each day's counting, a separate page for each day, with the Hebrew text above and the numbers of the days and weeks in Latin script below. The latter is written in the following manner (in Spanish or Portuguese): H [=Hoy/Hoje, today], S [=Semana, week], D [=Día/Dia, day]. Following that, the Birkat HaLevanah and the subsequent prayers are printed.
[32] leaves. Approx. 7 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding, with minor defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Niv Sefatayim, Sephardic-rite siddur for weekdays, Shabbat and festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Yosef Bueno de Maskita, [1872]. Printed on orange paper (apparently the entire edition was printed that way). Pocket format.
[4] leaves, 622 pages. 11.5 cm. Orange paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Old fabric binding, with wear and defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Sep 2, 2025
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Printed leaf to be hung in the Sukkah, Ulu Ushpizin Ila'in Kadishin, prayers and gematria for seven days of Sukkot, according to the order of the Ushpizin, with festival songs. Kokand (Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan): Rachamim David Bayof for Chizkiyah Chachamof, with assistance of Azariah Yusuvof and Yaakov Yusufwej Baruchof, 1916. Judeo-Tajik (Bukharian).
Eight parts, each dedicated to one of the seven days of the festival, with a short prayer and numerical values pertinent to the Ushpizin of each day. The eighth part contains songs for Sukkot.
42.5X35 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, including dampstains. Many creases and folding marks. Tears, including many open tears to center of leaf and folds, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. Pen inscriptions to verso of leaf.
Rare. Not recorded in Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Few books were printed in Kokand in the Hebrew alphabet.
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