Siddur for high holidays, festivals and five fast days, according to the Sephardic rite. Amsterdam: Avraham son of Refael Chizkiyahu Athias, 1740.
Three (of four) parts in five volumes. Miniature format.

Three parts, for high holidays, festivals and five fast days, in five volumes (high holiday part divided into three volumes). Does not contain first part, with prayers for weekday and Shabbat prayer.

In the festival section, 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.

Five volumes. High holidays (volume I): 157 leaves. High holidays (volume II): 158-229 leaves. High holidays (volume III): 230-360 leaves. Festivals: 300 leaves. Five fast days: 199, [1] leaves. 8.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Wear to some leaves. Tears, including small open tears in several places, slightly affecting text. Different bindings, three in original decorated leather binding, and two volumes in early parchment bindings. Damage to bindings.

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Machzor according to the Ashkenazic rite, with prayers for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuot, with Yiddish translation. Amsterdam: Hertz Levi Rofe and his son-in-law Kosman, 1750. Four parts in four volumes.

Four fine volumes, with wide margins, in original wooden and leather bindings, with remains of clasps (in one of the volumes the clasps are whole). Without fifth part containing year-round Selichot.

Four volumes. Volume I (Rosh Hashanah): [2], 22, 92, 5 leaves. Volume II (Yom Kippur): [1], 22, 93-125, 146-252, 255-282 leaves. Volume III (Sukkot): [1], 22, 92; 5 leaves. Volume IV (Pesach and Shavuot): [1], 22, 93-232, 223-236, 5 leaves. 27.5 cm. Wide margins. Thick, high-quality paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Light wear to some leaves in volume IV. Tears, including small open tears and tears affecting text, partially repaired with paper. Title page, front binding and spine of volume IV disconnected. Inscriptions in several places. Original wooden and leather bindings, damaged. Open tear to spine of volume II.

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Siddur according to the Sephardic rite for weekdays, Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and fast days. Amsterdam: Gerhard Johan Janson by Yisrael Mondovy, [1771]. Four volumes, missing festival section.

In the weekday volume on p. 159b and in the fast day volume on p. 158a appear handwritten signatures of the publisher, Jacob da Silva Mendes, cantor of the Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam in the second half of the 18th century.
In the first volume, with the prayers for weekdays and Shabbat, a calendar for the years 5530-5643 (1770-1883) appears in the last six leaves.
Four fine volumes, bound in original leather bindings, with rich gilt decorations on bindings and spines.

Four volumes. Weekday and Shabbat prayer volume: [1], 159, [6] leaves. Rosh Hashanah: [1], 86, [1] leaves. Yom Kippur: [1], 128, 127-171, [1] leaves. Fast days: [3], 3-132, 2 leaves. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Original leather bindings with gilt decorations and original colorful endpaper. Wear and damage to bindings.

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Year-round prayer according to the Polish rite. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1819. Bound with: Book of Tehillim arranged according to the days of the week, with a Yiddish commentary and Techinot (supplications). Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1822-1823.
Divisional title pages for Tehillim and Techinot.

Woman's Siddur in elegant leather binding, with gilt decorations and silver clasps – fully marked, with marks for Amsterdam (lion in a diamond), the year (P with a circle – 1849) and the maker (AL and 20 in a square – Lanzonder, Adrianus Hoolbos). Original colorful endpaper.
On the front binding is an inscription of the woman's name: "Nena wife of Avraham of Emden".

On the front endpaper are inscriptions of births in the woman's handwriting (inscriptions on three daughters born to her in 1851, 1854 and 1857; one inscription from 1851 deleted on the birth of a son who apparently later died).
The Siddur includes a handwritten leaf with a prayer for a birthing mother mentioning the woman's name: "Nena born to Chanah".

[1], 243; 64-135, [1]; 36 leaves. Tehillim and Techinot: 144 leaves. Missing 92 leaves from the second sequence in the Siddur. In their place are bound leaves 64-135, [1], evidently from another edition. 20.5 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good-fair condition, about 30 of the last leaves in fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness, with mold stains to last tens of leaves. Wear. Tears in several places. Early leather binding, with clasps. Much wear and damage to binding, tears across the binding (remains of paper stuck to back side of binding).

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Tefillah LeMoshe siddur, year-round prayers according to the Sephardic-Chassidic rite, with the kabbalistic Tefillah LeMoshe commentary by R. Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak). Includes Or HaYashar – ethical and Chassidic conduct according to kabbalah, by R. Meir Poppers, and Derech HaChaim on the laws of prayer by R. Yaakov of Lissa. Premishla (Przemyśl): Zupnik, Knoller and Hammerschmidt, 1892. First edition. Two parts in one volume.

Copy of R. Yehudah Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Beclean, with his stamps in Hebrew and Latin script: "Yehudah Lichtenstein – Rabbi of Bethlen and the region – Beclean".
This Siddur was later handed down to another family member, who writes that he received it as a wedding gift from his brother-in-law R. Moshe Aryeh Gottesman who had received it from the writer's father. On the back endpaper are records of births.

R. Yehudah Lichtenstein (1855-1921), son and successor of R. Yaakov Koppel Lichtenstein Rabbi of Beclean (brother of R. Hillel Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Kolomyia), served as Rabbi of Beclean and headed an important yeshiva that at times numbered over a hundred students.

The present book contains 19 approbations from the leading Chassidic masters of the time, including Rebbe Yehoshua of Belz, Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov and Rebbe Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz, extolling the virtues of this siddur and assuring that it will bring blessing into the home. Rebbe Uri of Sambor writes: "Whoever purchases the holy siddur will be blessed with sons, life and abundant sustenance, and it will serve as a protection for his home".

[6]; [3], 2-24; [1], 2-189, [4], 190-286 leaves; [2], 289-432 leaves; 8 leaves; 4, [1], 5-48, [3] leaves. 22.5 cm. Dark, dry paper. Overall fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and wear. Tears, including open tears, affecting large portions of text on six leaves: first title page, leaf [2] (repaired with paper filling and text replacement), and several leaves in the book. Original leather binding, with new spine.

[4] leaves with Shir HaShirim, bound in the present copy between leaves 189-190, are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book nor in the National Library of Israel (though they do appear in the Chabad Library copy digitized on HebrewBooks).

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