Machzor…Yamim Noraim [prayer service for the Days of Awe]. Two volumes ff. 143 and ff. 144-288. * Seder Tephilath LeMo’adim [Sukoth prayers]. ff. 168. According to Sephardic rite.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Abraham Athias

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1728

Description

Together three volumes. Two engraved frontispieces. Volume for Yom Kippur with penciled instructions. Each volume signed in several places by Abraham Seixas , and dated March 20th, 1808.

summary

New York born Abraham Seixas (1786-1834) was one of the 21 children of Isaac Mendes Seixas, one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Another one of the children was Gershom Mendes Seixas, hazan of the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, New York City.

Browned and stained, few leaves loose. Contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, covers detached. 8vo.

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