Auction 67 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Machzor for the High Holidays and Machzor for the Three Festivals - Two Parts - Slavita - 1825-1827

Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
Two machzor volumes - machzor for the High Holidays and machzor for the Three Festivals, from two editions printed in Slavita in 1825-1827, forming together a complete set in two parts:
• Machzor for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, part I, according to the rite of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Bohemia and Moravia (Nusach Ashkenaz), with a commentary in Yiddish and in the Holy Tongue. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira, son of the rabbi of Slavita, 1827. Approbations by R. Yitzchak Izek Rabbi of Neustadt-Berditchev and R. Efraim dayan in Sudylkiv. These approbations, written in 1825, mention R. Moshe Shapira Rabbi of Slavita as the one who requested the approbations.
[2], 164 leaves. 25.5 cm. Some light-bluish leaves. Fair condition. Stains. Worming, affecting text. Marginal worming and tear to title page, repaired (title page and other leaves professionally restored). New binding.
• Machzor for the Three Festivals, part II, according to the rite of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Lithuania and Belarus (Nusach Ashkenaz), with a commentary in Yiddish and in the Holy Tongue. Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira, son of the rabbi of Slavita, 1825.
[1], 2-142 leaves. Lacking leaf 1 with the approbations. 27 cm. High-quality, light-bluish paper. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Minor worming to some leaves. Several tears. Open tear to leaf 119, affecting text with some loss. Minor damage. Paper repairs to inner margins of title page and margins of final leaf, affecting text. New binding.
Books Printed by the Shapira Family - Slavita, Józefów and Zhitomir
Books Printed by the Shapira Family - Slavita, Józefów and Zhitomir