Psalterium Sextuplex, Hebraeum, cum tribus latinis videlicet, Divi Hieronymi, R. P. Sanctis Pagnini & Felicis Pratensis [Book of Tehillim, Hebrew text with five translations]. Lyon (France): Sebastian Gryphius, 1530.
First Hebrew Book of Tehillim printed in France.
This is Part I of the book, which contains the entire Hebrew text of Tehillim accompanied by three Latin translations of Hieronymo, Pagnino and Pratensis, printed in four columns. Part II (with a separate inner title page), with the Vulgate translation and the Septuagint (Greek), is lacking.
The book opens with an index of the Latin names of the chapters (according to the order of the Latin alphabet).
A fine printer's device appears in the center of the title page.
Handwritten Latin inscriptions to title page and final endpaper.

[200] leaves. Lacking [160] leaves of Part II. 18 cm. Some browned leaves. Fair-good condition, beginning leaves in fair condition. Stains, including dark stains to several leaves. Wear. Worming and open tears (extensive worming to title page), slightly affecting text. Early leather binding with embossed decorations, damaged and slightly detached, with extensive worming and open tears.

Listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to a copy found in the Palatine Library in Parma. The book is not recorded in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, nor in the NLI catalogue.
Darlow & Moule, 1415

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Siddur "for the entire year, beautiful and elegant, arranged according to the Ashkenazi and Polish rite", with prayers and supplications, and compilation of laws, edited by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman London. Amsterdam: Orphans of Shlomo Proops, [1742].

Bound with:
* Book of Psalms, arranged according to the days of the week and month, with short and long commentaries. Amsterdam: Proops, [1740].
* Seder Ma'amadot, arranged according to the days of the week, by Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz, the Holy Shelah. Amsterdam: Proops, [1742].

Book of Psalms with a fine illustrated title page. Small format, "in a small volume to ease the burden for travelers, of utmost beauty, both in letters and in paper and ink" (from the text on the title page). The two commentaries were first printed with the "Sha'ar HaShamayim" prayer book by the Shelah, (Amsterdam, 1717), edited by the Shelah's great-grandson R. Avraham Horowitz. At the beginning of this volume appear the words of R. Avraham Horowitz: "How to conduct oneself in reciting Psalms".
The extensive commentary is by R. Moshe ben Israel de Mercado from his "Commentary on Ecclesiastes and Psalms" (Amsterdam, 1653), which was inserted into the 1717 edition with changes (see: Rabbi Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss, On the Editions of the 'Shelah Siddur' and its Commentaries, Tzefunot, 17, 1993, pp. 28-31). The author of the short commentary may be Rabbi Avraham Horowitz.
This Psalms is bound with "Seder Ma'amadot" arranged by the Shelah, as stated on the title page: "As arranged by the great Gaon, the divine Kabbalist Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz Segal...", with "sufficient commentary" (by Rabbi Avraham Saraval). On the verso of the title page is stated that "the first printer [in the Amsterdam, 1717 edition, appended to the "Sha'ar HaShamayim" prayer book] did not manage" to print the Ma'amadot with the additions of the Shelah, and here they were integrated for the first time.

Siddur: [8], 184; 186 leaves. Psalms and Ma'amadot: 88; 60 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Gilt and decorated fore-edges. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Minor wear and signs of use to some leaves. Tears, including small open tears to margins of title page and several other leaves, partially repaired with paper, not affecting text. New leather binding, incorporating parts of the original leather binding (on spine and back binding board). With metal clasps.

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Tikun Shlomo – Tikunei Shabbat according to the Arizal, with prayers and blessings for various occasions, laws and customs. Amsterdam: widow and sons of Yosef Proops and Avraham Prinz, [1809].
Original leather binding, with silver clasps, marked by maker.
Copy containing a notable inscription attesting that the book was given as a gift by a grandfather to his grandson on the day of his circumcision, and that the grandson later died in his youth.
The inscription about the gift is written in neat Torah scroll characters on a piece of parchment mounted on the interior of the original paper wrapper, and dated 5th Tamuz 1834. On the margins of the parchment is added an inscription lamenting the death of the grandson on Wednesday 22nd Adar (March 6) 1850.

[2], 6; 180 leaves. 16.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Many stains, wear and open tears to margins of several leaves, affecting text. Early leather binding, with gilt decorations and silver clasps. Wear and damage to binding (tears to top of spine).

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Divrei Tzaddikim, The Book of Daily Prayers, containing year-round prayers according to the Ashkenazic and Poland customs. Proofread and translated by Isaac Leeser (Yitzchak son of Uri Ben Elazar). Philadelphia: Conger Sherman, 1848. First edition.
First Ashkenazic siddur printed in the American continent. Hebrew and English on facing pages, with corresponding numbering.
Fine copy, bound in original elegant leather bindings, with gilt decorations.
On front endpaper and additional leaf printed next to it – inscriptions on births, marriages and deaths, with texts of gravestones in English and Hebrew, dating to the second half of the 19th century, of the Hass family (of Hartford, Connecticut).

VIII, 242, 243, [1] pages. 23 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Stains. Original leather binding with gilt decorations. Damage to binding (repairs to edges of spine).

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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. Przemyśl: Zupnik, Knoller and Hammerschmidt, 1892. First edition. Both parts in one volume.
Does not contain Derech HaChaim by R. Yaakov of Lissa, originally printed at the end of Part II with a divisional title page.
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 this holy siddur will be blessed with sons, life and abundant sustenance, and it will serve as a protection in his home".

[5], 24, [1], 2-193, [4], 194-208, 210-286 leaves; [2], 289-432 leaves; 8 leaves. Leaves 180-184 misordered (including printing defects and misplacing of columns). Lacking 4 leaves ([3] leaves after title page with publisher's preface, and title page and introduction to Or HaYashar, and leaf 209 in the middle of the book). Does not contain Derech HaChaim HaShalem, which had been printed with a divisional title page at the end of Part II (4, [1], 5-48, [3] leaves). 22.5 cm. Dark paper, dry and brittle. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Many tears, including open tears, affecting title frame and text, partially repaired with paper and tape strips. Last leaf detached. Stamps. New binding.

[4] leaves with Shir HaShirim, bound in the present copy between leaves 193-194, are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book nor in the NLI catalogue (though they do appear in the Chabad Library copy digitized on HebrewBooks.org).


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