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
Year-Round Siddur with Yiddish Translation – Amsterdam, 1776 – Original Leather Binding – Dedication from Grandmother to Granddaughter
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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.
Siddurim and Prayer Books
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