Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Latin Prayer for the Coronation of Leopold II – The Jewish Community of Pressburg, 1790

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Sold for: $688
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Preces ac piae functiones a comunitate Judaeorum Posonii [...]. Pressburg: Francisci Augustini Patzko, 1790. Latin.
Prayer composed by the Jewish community of Pressburg for the coronation of Leopold II in 1790 as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Hungary and Bohemia, in place of his brother Joseph II.
16 pp, 15.5 cm. No wrappers. Good condition. Horizontal fold line. Some stains. Detached spreads. Glue traces to spine.
Not recorded in OCLC.
From the estate of Prof. Shlomo Simonsohn.
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