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Tehillim Siftei Renanot – Jerusalem, 1890 – Bound with Two Additional Books Printed Concurrently in Jerusalem

Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Three books printed in Jerusalem in one volume:

• Tehillim Siftei Renanot, with two kabbalistic commentaries: Kan Tzipor by R. Avraham HaKohen, and Tehillot Yisrael by R. Khalifa HaKohen. Jerusalem: Yisrael Dov Frumkin, 1890.
Includes Sephardic-rite weekday and Shabbat Minchah and Maariv prayers.
Sh. Halevy, No. 735.
This edition of Tehillim contains three leaves after the title page, including one leaf with a printed dedication by the author and publisher – R. Khalifa HaKohen – filled in by hand (apparently by R. Khalifa), dedicated to "R. Tzror and his brother Mr. Eliyahu"; and two leaves with approbations by rabbis of Djerba.
Kabbalah scholar Prof. Gershom Scholem noted in his personal copy that Tehillim Siftei Renanot is extraordinarily rare.
Bound with:
• Sefer Maftechot Arachei HaKinuyim, by R. Shlomo Kahana. Jerusalem: Y. D. Frumkin, 1890.
Sh. Halevy, No. 720.
• Luach HaIbur, calendrical details for ten years, 1891-1901. Jerusalem: Y. D. Frumkin, 1890.
Sh. Halevy, No. 713.

Tehillim: [11], 231, 7, 7-12 leaves. Maftechot Arachei HaKinuyim: 39 leaves. Luach HaIbur: 36 leaves. 19 cm. Dry, somewhat brittle paper. Condition Varies, most leaves in good-fair condition, some leaves in fair condition. Stains. Many dark stains to four leaves of Tehillim. Light wear. Tears and open tears. Large open tears to three leaves of Tehillim (about half of each leaf), heavily affecting text. Light worming, slightly affecting text. Stamp. Old binding with leather spine. Wear, worming and damage to binding.