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(LITURGY). Selichoth [penitential prayers for the whole year]. According to the rite of Frankfurt a/Main. Prepared with commentary by Eliakim ben Jacob of Komorno. Text in Yiddish only, printed in Wayber-taytsch type. Striking title page set with seven engraved Biblical vignettes. The Elkan Nathan Adler copy. ff. (1), 79. Ownership and purchase notation by Raphael Halevi Hannover, 1721 on title-page. Lower portions of ff. 2 and 5 with some loss, stained. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 560. Amsterdam, Moses Kosman ben Elijah Gomperz, 1688. Unusually dramatic title-page. The first of some 50 Hebrew books produced by this Dutch printer (also known as Cosman Elias Gomperts), the son-in-law of the famed diarist Glueckel of Hameln.