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![Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniatur](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale108/49.jpg "Festival Machzor – Amsterdam, 1740 – Miniature Format – Poem by Ramcha")
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Siddur for festivals, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, [1740]. Miniature format.
Original leather bindings, with gilt decorations (slightly faded).
Prayers for three festivals, including Passover Haggadah and Pirkei Avot.
At pp. 180b-181a, in the Tikun Simchat Torah, appears a poem for Chatan Torah and Chatan Bereshit composed by R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (the Ramchal). The Ramchal authored this poem for the Chatan Torah Yitzchak son of Avraham Nunes Enriques, and Chatan Bereshit Aharon de Yosef de Pinto, although they are not mentioned in this printing.
300 leaves. 8.5 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Minor marginal tears to several leaves. Original leather binding. Defects to binding (leather piece lacking from front of binding).
Provenance: Collection of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Year-round Selichot, following the rite of Bohemia, Poland, Moravia and Austria. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, [1751]. Fine decorated title frame.
Contents on last leaf.
On title page, signature of "Miryam Keyser" (another signature of hers on pp. 40a, 100a) and ownership inscription: "Here, London – belongs to the official Miriam wife of Ziskind Keyser, Shanah Tovah" (both in Hebrew).
Inscriptions deleted in ink on front endpaper (Hebrew): "This Selichot belongs to the distinguished woman Miriam wife of the official Ziskind Keyser, 1768"; "Belongs to R. Asher Goldsmid". This signature also appears on the front binding.
On back endpaper, stamp (Latin characters): "Mary Keyser, 1757" (the secular date is erased with ink, replaced by hand with the Hebrew year: "5527").
The present volume belonged to Mary Keyser of London, and was later passed down to her son-in-law Asher Goldsmid (1751-1822), who married her daughter Rachel Keyser (1752-1815) and signed his name on the present volume. The couple's son was Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778-1859), the first Jew in England to receive the hereditary title of baronet.
Mary and Ziskind Keyser were born in Amsterdam and immigrated to England. Mary was the daughter of Yissachar Ber Cohen-Kempen.
The Keyser and Goldsmid families were a mainstay of the early Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, some of whom immigrated to London from ca. the 18th century (see Lot 40 in the present catalogue).
113, [1] leaves. 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains (resulting from browning of paper). Dark ink stains to title page, slightly affecting text and title frame as a result of singeing. Early parchment binding, with defects (tears across spine).
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Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Set of machzorim for high holidays. Part I: Seder Ashmurot, Selichot for Elul and ten days of repentance, "according to the rite of the Carpentras, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Cavaillon community"; Part II, Rosh Hashanah service, and Part III, Yom Kippur service, "according to the rite of the Avignon community", edited by R. Avraham Montel. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, 1763-1766. Three volumes.
In some copies of Seder HaAshmurot, including the present copy, the title page reads "according to the rite of the Carpentras, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Cavaillon community" instead of "according to the rite of the Avignon community"; apart from this, the two editions are entirely identical (on the differences between the selichot rites of Carpentras and Avignon, see: Zunz, Rites of Synagogue Liturgy, Breuer-Fraenkel Hebrew translation, Jerusalem, 2016, pp. 137-138, 291-294).
The Carpentras prayer and piyyut rites are unique to the southeastern French community. Its text was copied in manuscript machzorim for community members until the local scribes were unable to meet the demand. At that point a young local Torah scholar named R. Avraham son of Shmuel de Monteux (Montel) began to print the unique Carpentras prayer rite.
On the background to the publication and the work of the publisher Avraham son of Shmuel de Monteux (here called Montel), see: Sh. Schwartzfuchs, Documents on the Printing of "Mahzor Karpentrats", Alei Sefer, VI-VII, 1979, pp. 145-147 (Hebrew).
Lengthy handwritten inscriptions on front endpapers and inside the boards of first volume. The front endpapers and boards contain another sermon for Yom Kippur eve. The writer mentions his own manuscript books Ir David and Sefer HaMefoar.
Signature on title page of second volume for Rosh Hashanah: "Shlomo Dalpuget".
Three volumes. Volume I (Selichot): 82 leaves. Volume II (Rosh Hashanah): 60, 65-68 leaves. Volume III (Yom Kippur): 88 leaves. Lacking last leaf. 24-24.5 cm. Varying condition of volumes; first volume in good-fair condition, second and third volumes in fair to fair-good condition. Stains, including large dampstains to second volume, and especially dark stains to first and last leaves of third volume. Wear. Marginal tears and open tears to several leaves, repaired with paper in several places. Volumes I-II in early leather bindings (non-uniform), volume III in binding with leather spine. Wear and defects to bindings (open tears to spine of second volume).
C. Roth, The Liturgy of Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, in: Journal of Jewish Bibliography (1939), pp. 102-103.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Siddur according to the Ashkenazic and Polish rite. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1795.
Prayers for weekdays, Shabbat and festivals, with instructions and halachot in Yiddish (Tzenah URenah typeface).
Illustrated woodcut title frame.
80 leaves. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Close trimming, affecting catchwords in several places. Early binding, with defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Bibliographically unknown edition.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Beit Tefillah, Italian-rite siddur. Livorno: Salmoni Gentiluomo and Katzigin, 1837.
Miniature format, Italian-rite siddur (after Pisa 1816 edition), with prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals, Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Original leather binding, with gilt decorations and metal clasp (inscribed with letters GB).
64, 49-224 leaves. 7.5 cm. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Overall good condition. Stains. Tears, affecting text of several leaves. Original leather binding, with decorations and metal clasp. Minor defects to binding.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Tikun Shlomo – order of Tikunei Shabbat, based on the Arizal, with prayers and blessings for various occasions, halachot and customs. Amsterdam: Yosef Proops, 1775.
Original leather binding, with gilt decorations (including an inscribed illustration of a bird with prey in its mouth), and silver clasps.
On endpaper, notable dedication dated 1786, of a mohel who gave the book as a gift to the child being circumcised.
[2], 164 leaves. 16.5 cm. Interior of book in overall good condition, binding in fair condition. Stains. Tears and minor defects to margins of some leaves. Original leather binding, with color endpaper. Much wear and defects to binding (some repaired; back side loose).
Provenance: Collection of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Midrash BeChidush, Passover Haggadah with commentary by kabbalist R. Eliezer Nachman Foa. Venice: Bragadin brothers by Gio. Calleoni, 1641. First edition.
The author, R. Eliezer Nachman Foa (d. 1659), disciple of R. Menachem Azariah (Rama) of Fano and one of the leading kabbalists in Italy, headed the Aluvim society in Reggio. At the end of the introduction are printed signatures of 25 members of this society, disciples of the author who published this book. At the end of the book is a "Confession for Jewish sinners" (a prayer written by the author, bound in this copy before the "Haggadah to be recited after the meal").
This commentary was reprinted in Leshon Chachamim, Livorno, 1809, and in the Tefillah LeMoshe siddur, Przemyśl, 1892.
Lengthy exegetical gloss on p. 5b (trimmed), in Italian script contemporaneous with printing.
36 leaves (leaves 33-36 bound out of sequence). 20.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and wine stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, to title page and other leaves, affecting text in several places. Worming, affecting text. Leaves and gatherings detached. Early cardboard binding, with defects.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Otzar HaHaggadot 58.
Category
Passover Haggadot
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
May 12, 2026
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Passover Haggadah, "with a beautiful commentary and fine illustrations of the signs and wonders G-d did for our ancestors", with commentary of R. Yitzchak Abarbanel and a map of Eretz Israel. Amsterdam: Asher Anshel son of Eliezer Chazan and Yissachar Ber son of Avraham Eliezer, 1695. Two title pages, the first one illustrated with copper engravings.
This Haggadah, illustrated by the artist Avraham HaGer (a German priest from Rhineland who converted to Judaism in Amsterdam), was the first Haggadah to be illustrated with copper engravings, and one of the first Hebrew books to be illustrated with this printing method, which, as the second title page asserts, is infinitely superior to previously used woodcuts. This edition served as a prototype for many subsequent Haggadot, either by inclusion of the map or by imitation of its illustrations (for more information on this Haggadah, see article by Cecil Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, pp. 22-25).
Ownership inscription (trimmed) at top of title page.
Stamp on title page and last leaf of the old Altona-Hamburg Beit Midrash.
[1], 26 leaves + [1] folding leaf. 29.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and dark food and wine stains (especially harsh stains to several leaves, covering entire page). Tears and open tears to title page and several other leaves, slightly affecting illustrated title frame and text, repaired with paper filling. Worming, slightly affecting text. New binding. Map in fair-good condition. Stains. Tears and marginal open tears to map, slightly affecting illustrations, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Variant. The first title page was printed in two forms. The bottom half of the title page is the same in both, depicting Moses and Aaron. The upper part of the title pages differs. The more common version has six miniature circles with various Biblical scenes. The present variant has a large illustration of Moses kneeling next to the Burning Bush (a title page of this type later appeared in the Amsterdam 1712 edition). Besides this, there are minor differences in the text on the title page.
Otzar HaHaggadot 93.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Passover Haggadah, in Hebrew with Judeo-Italian translation, with Tzeli Esh commentary, and illustrations. Venice: Bragadin, 1695.
Fine decorated frame on all pages, with woodcut illustrations and initial panels (some hand-colored at a later date).
Roman rite Haggadah.
On verso of title page, image of the Temple.
On leaf [25], illustrations of the Temple vessels and the Tabernacle.
[26] leaves. 31.5 cm. Fair to fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains to title page. Tears and open tears, affecting text and illustrated frames (including to title frame), repaired with paper filling. Close trimming, affecting top of some illustrated frames. Bookplate. Old parchment binding.
This Haggadah was printed in three editions with Judeo-Italian, Ladino and Yiddish translations (no copies of the Yiddish version are extant).
Otzar HaHaggadot 94.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Passover Haggadah, with Mateh Aharon commentary by R. Aharon Darshan Teomim, with an added kabbalistic commentary. Frankfurt am Main: Dayan R. Leib Schnapper, [1710]. Integrated Ashkenazic and Sephardic rite, with instructions and comments in Yiddish and Ladino respectively.
Copper-engraved illustrations (after Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer, Amsterdam Haggadah, 1695).
Elaborate title page, composed of several illustrated typographical decorations (interestingly, the Eye of Providence, later a Freemason symbol, appears in the left part of the frame).
[2], 2-44 leaves. 30.5 cm. Varying condition, fair to fair-good. Stains, including dampstains and dark food stains (heavy stains to several leaves). Wear. Tears and open tears, including large marginal open tears to title page, slightly affecting verso, repaired with paper. New binding, with leather spine and corners. Wear and minor defects to binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Otzar HaHaggadot 113.
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Passover Haggadot
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Passover Haggadah, in Hebrew and Spanish, with Tzli Esh commentary and illustrations. Venice: Alvise Bragadin, 1716. All pages in fine decorated frame, with many woodcut illustrations.
Translation and explanations in Haggadah printed in Ladino. This Haggadah was also printed in Yiddish and Italian editions.
[24] leaves. Approx. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wax stains, and many food stains to several leaves. Many tears and open tears, some large, affecting text and illustrations in many places, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 133.
Provenance: Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Passover Haggadot
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Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Passover Haggadah, with Zera Yehudah commentary, by R. Yehudah Leib of Mainz, with illustrations. Offenbach: Bonaventure de Launoy, 1721. First edition of the commentary.
Includes fine woodcut illustrations.
On title page, handwritten inscription (beginning trimmed) dated 1738.
36 leaves. 31.5 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including heavy dampstains and dark food stains. Wear. Tears and open tears, affecting text, partially repaired with paper (paper repairs across margins of title page). Worming, affecting text. Last gathering loose. Early binding. Much wear, defects and tears to binding and spine.
Otzar HaHaggadot 142.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
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Passover Haggadot
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