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Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $5,000
Sold for: $10,000
Including buyer's premium
Machzor in elaborate silver binding. Rome, Italy, 18th century.
Silver, repoussé (bearing hallmarks from Rome, late 18th century, and another unidentified mark, probably that of the maker or workshop); print on paper.
Elaborate binding decorated identically on both sides, in varied vegetal patterns, with a central cartouche topped by a crown above and a shell-like decoration below. Both cartouches feature a coat of arms – a lion leaning on a tower with another lion ascending from its top – the coat of arms of the Ascarelli family of Rome. The family coat of arms plays on the meaning of the Ascarelli name, apparently from the Hebrew words Az KaAri – "fierce as a lion".
The book: Sephardic-rite festival siddur. Venice: Bragadin, [1736]. Part II only: Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba, Shmini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Pesach and Shir HaShirim with Spanish explanation, Shavuot.
228 leaves. 15.5 cm. Overall good condition. Somewhat close trimming. Stains. First title page almost entirely detached. Endpapers more recent, with later handwritten inscriptions. Gilt edges.
Height of binding: 16 cm. Width: 11.5 cm. Thickness: 3 cm. Good condition. Minor warping of edges and minor defects.
Provenance:
• Collection of Guido Zevi (1883-1975), Rome.
• Daughter of Guido Zevi, Adriana (1913-1982), wife of Dr. Attilio Milano (b. 1907, Rome; immigrated to Palestine in 1939; d. 1969, Hod HaSharon).
Category
Decorative Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Siddur in decorated silver binding. Venice, Italy, 18th and 19th centuries.
Silver, cast, repoussé and engraved (unmarked); print on paper.
Silver binding (apparently dating to the early 19th century) decorated identically on both sides, in vegetal patterns, with a large crown set on the top shield. Family coat of arms on the shield on front binding – a rooster standing on a three-peaked mountain, under a sun and moon (perhaps the coat of arms of the Modigliani family). Another coat of arms is featured on the back binding – an erect lion holding a branch.
The book: Italian-rite siddur. Venice: Yitzchak Foa, [1796].
121 [i.e. 192] leaves (does not contain 32 additional leaves with Pirkei Avot). 9 cm. Overall good condition. Original binding, almost entirely detached from book, with some loose gatherings. Few stains. Tears and wear to some leaves. Gilt edges. Binding: 9.5 cm. Good condition, with pair of original clasps.
Category
Decorative Bindings
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $250
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Order of four fast days – 10th of Tevet, Taanit Esther, 17th of Tamuz and 9th of Av. Amsterdam: Immanuel Benveniste, 1658.
Early leather binding, with gilt decorations.
Fine title frame (woodcut), produced by Christoph van Sichem (CVS monogram at base of right pillar). Printer's device of Immanuel Benveniste at top of title page – a cartouche featuring a lion resting against a tower, under a star.
Haftarah of Tishah BeAv with verse-by-verse Ladino translation and commentary. Order of Tishah BeAv includes the Book of Iyov.
Handwritten corrections and additions on pp. 54b and 59a.
Handwritten inscription inside front binding.
60, [2], 61-93, 95, 97-104, 108-117, [2] leaves. Misfoliation. 15 cm. Gilt edges, gauffered. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark dampstains and wax stains. Light wear. Few tears, including small open tears to title page, affecting title frame. Early wood and leather binding, with defects (holes for clasps; spine and corners of binding repaired).
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $800
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Year-round siddur, with techinot and Yiddish commentary. Amsterdam: Moshe Dias and Shimon Shamash, trustee of Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, 1714.
Women's siddur, with Yiddish commentary in Tzenah URenah typeface in margins.
Green-colored leather binding, with gilt decorations. Each binding board decorated in an identical symmetric pattern, with six silver decorations to corners and edges, and a central decoration in the shape of a vase engraved with vegetal patterns. Both decorations between the four corner decorations feature a lion rampant. Includes a pair of fine silver clasps, with hallmarks of the Hague and Amsterdam from the 18th century.
Family inscriptions on both sides of front endpaper, in Dutch Ashkenazic cursive script.
Gilt inscription on binding: "Tefillat – M. M. P" (Hebrew and Latin characters).
[1], 20, 22-147, 158-166, 166-214, [10]; 16 leaves. Vast majority of leaf 21 torn and lacking. Several leaves may be lacking from middle. 15.5 cm. Gilt edges (partially faded). Varying condition, fair to fair-good. Stains, including dampstains. Wear and signs of use. Tears and open tears, including tears to title page, affecting text, partially repaired with paper. Gilt edges, affecting text. Original leather bindings, with defects (tear to bottom of spine).
Bibliographically unknown.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $400
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Tikun Shlomo – order of Tikunei Shabbat, based on the Arizal, with prayers and blessings for various occasions, laws and customs, edited by R. Shlomo Zalman London. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, [1760].
Elaborate original leather binding, with many gilt decorations on both sides of the binding and spine (decorations on spine faded). Owner's name inscribed on front binding: "Mordechai son of the official R. Shimon Boaz".
[2], 143 leaves. 17.5 cm. Thick paper. Color edges. Overall good condition. Stains. Original wood and leather binding, with original color endpaper. Wear and defects to binding.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $938
Including buyer's premium
Siddur Beit Tefillah and Shaarei Tefillah, with commentary and grammar by R. Shlomo Zalman Katz Hena (Hanau). The Hague: (J. H. Munnikhuizen for) Leib Zusmans, 1777.
With instructions and halachot in Yiddish, in Tzenah URenah typeface.
On verso of title page, Yiddish chart of estimated sunset times in Europe by secular month.
[2], 22, 22-31, 31-58, 49-71, 85-214 leaves. Misfoliation. Approx. 16 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Light wear and signs of use. Small tears in several places. Paper strips mounted over some leaves. Trimmed signature on title page. Old leather binding, with light wear.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Year-round siddur, Ashkenazic Polish rite, with Hoshanot, Maaravot, Yotzrot, Selichot for fast days, Perek Shirah and Passover Haggadah, edited by R. Shlomo Zalman London. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, 1773.
Bound with: Book of Tehillim. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, 1769; Order of Maamadot. Amsterdam: Yosef, Yaakov and Avraham sons of Shlomo Proops, 1767. Divisional title pages for Book of Tehillim and Maamadot.
Original elaborate leather binding, with many gilt decorations, decorations of angels and crowns, and a dove holding a leaf in its mouth.
Ownership inscription on title page of "Manis Levi Norden".
On front and back endpapers, many birth and death inscriptions of Norden family members between 1806-1859, with a detailed documentation of several generations. One of the deaths recorded is his son-in-law, R. Yehudah Leib Schaap, Rabbi of Amersfoort: "Alas for the death of my beloved son-in-law, the Rabbi and yeshiva dean R. Yehudah Leib Schaaps, who presided over justice in Amersfoort and the region… Erev Shavuot 1859…".
12, 415; 56; 47 leaves. 13 cm. Gilt edges. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear. Marginal tears to some leaves, affecting text. Several leaves and gatherings loose. Original leather binding. Wear and defects to binding (tears to top and edges of spine).
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Two Sephardic-rite machzorim, for high holidays and the three festivals, from two different editions printed in Venice and Pisa in the 18th century, housed in magnificent leather slipcases:
• Sephardic-rite three festival machzor, with additions from Chemdat Yamim and other additions following the Constantinople and Izmir rite. Venice: sons of Foa, 1774.
With many halachot in Ladino.
259, [4] leaves (misfoliation; last leaf numbered 268). 16.5 cm. Gilt edges. Fair condition. Severe browning of paper of many leaves. Stains, including especially dark stains. Marginal tears to several leaves.
• Sephardic-rite high holiday machzor, with additions from Chemdat Yamim and other additions following the Constantinople and Izmir rite. Pisa: Samuel Foa, 1781.
32, 25-351, [1] leaves. 16.5 cm. Gilt edges. Browning of paper of most leaves. Fair-good condition. Stains, including especially dark stains to some leaves. Marginal tears to several leaves.
Both machzorim were evidently bound in elaborate silver bindings, but these were removed, leaving behind the wooden boards of the binding only (with original color endpaper). Both bindings are housed in elaborate leather-coated cardboard slipcases (uniform), with gilt decorations of rich vegetal patterns, and an elaborate coat of arms on both sides of each slipcase, with a center cartouche featuring a lion waving its front paws towards a small tree.
One case has the coat of arms surrounded on its three sides with the letters "A.A.R.", while the other has the letters "S.A.R."; the spines of the volumes are inscribed with the contents of the volume ("Rosh Hashanah, Kippur"; "Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot"), and again the inscription "S.A.R.".
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $250
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Eight siddurim and machzorim printed in Jerusalem between the years 1893-1932.
See Hebrew description for a detailed list of books in the collection.
8 books. Varying size and condition. Most in old and original bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined, and are being sold as is.
Provenance: Formerly of the collection of Dr. Israel Mehlman (Ginzei Yisrael). Some books have bibliographic inscriptions in his handwriting, and most contain catalogue numbers of his library.
Category
Siddurim and Prayer Books
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Gedolim Maasei Hashem, commentary on the stories of the Torah, with Maasei Mitzrayim – Passover Haggadah and commentary (in Maasei Mitzrayim, chapter 24), by R. Eliezer Ashkenazi son of R. Eliyah HaRofe. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1583. First edition.
At center of title page, ownership inscriptions in early Ashkenazic script.
Inscription (faded) on leaf [6]. Another inscription on blank leaf between leaves 181-182 (Yiddish).
[6], 197 leaves. Blank leaf bound between leaves 181-182. 29.5 cm. Fair condition, some leaves in middle of book in fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains (many dark stains to title page, first and last leaves and other places). Tears and open tears to title page and other places, slightly affecting title frame and affecting text, partially repaired with paper. Worming, affecting text. Old binding, with defects.
Otzar HaHaggadot 30.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Beit Chorin – Passover Haggadah, with commentary of Alshich, Gevurot Hashem and Olelot Efraim. Metz: Moshe May and Joseph Antoine, 1767.
Two title pages, the first with an illustrated engraving. Copper-engraved illustrations based on those of Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer in the Amsterdam Haggadah.
Slight variants exist between copies in the text of the illustrated title page and caption with the printer's name at margin.
At the end of the Haggadah is a folding plate containing a map of the journeys of the Children of Israel from Egypt to the Land of Israel, with illustrations of the Tabernacle, its vessels and the high priest around the margins, with explanatory captions in German (the map is signed in print: "Colin Fecit 1753").
[2], 64 leaves + [1] folding map. Approx. 25 cm. Fair condition. Many stains, including dark dampstains, and heavy food and wine stains to some leaves. Tears, including open tear affecting text. Original leather binding, with wear and defects. Map in good-fair condition. Stains. Tears and minor defects to margins and folds.
Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.
First illustrated Haggadah to be printed in France, and one of the first printed Hebrew books in Metz. The illustrations were based on the Amsterdam 1695 edition. See: C. Roth, HaHaggadah HaMetzuyeret ShebiDefus, Areshet, III, 1961, p. 24.
Otzar HaHaggadot 251.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value
Auction 109 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Megillot and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Sep 1, 2026
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,375
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Maaleh Beit Chorin – Passover Haggadah, "Ashkenazic and Sephardic rites", with commentaries – Alshich, Gevurot Hashem by the Maharal and Olelot Efraim by R. Shlomo Ephraim of Luntshitz (the Kli Yakar). Amsterdam: Proops, 1781. First edition of the Haggadah under this title.
Engraved half-title. Engraved illustrations based on the Amsterdam 1695 edition. Early leather binding, with gilt decorations.
Signature on endpaper (Latin characters): "Isac Jacob Majler", and brief handwritten poem in Hebrew.
[2], 52 leaves. 25 cm. Fair to fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains (many dark food stains on some leaves). Wear and creases. Marginal tears to some leaves. Early leather binding, with wear and defects.
Without [1] leaf (folding plate) of Eretz Israel, included with some copies.
Otzar HaHaggadot 300.
Category
Passover Haggadot
Catalogue Value