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(LITURGY). Sepher Mo’adei Hashem Ukeri’ei Mo’ed [prayers for three Festivals with Hagadah for Passover]. According to Sephardic rite. Two volumes. Both with large woodcut vignettes of Jerusalem on titles. Vol. I with additional letterpress title. Contains the Haskamoth of the Rishon LeTzion, Hayyim Abraham Gaguine and the Chief Rabbi of Damascus, R. Ya’akob Antebi. With blessing for the Turkish Sultan. Vol. I: ff. (5), 4-20, 25-97; 62, 41-68. *  Vol. II: ff. (2), 5-108; 77. Stained in places, few leaves of differing sizes. Modern elaborately blind-tooled chestnut morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Jerusalem 22 and 33; Halevi, Jerusalem 19-20 (noting variants); and see Israel Museum Catalogue, Amanut Ve’Omanut Be’Eretz Yisrael (1979) fig. 167. Jerusalem, Yisrael Bak, 1843-4. THE FIRST MACHZOR ISSUED IN JERUSALEM. For nearly two millennia, Jews around the world could only dream of one day make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for one of the three Regel Festivals: Pesach, Shavu’oth and Sukoth. The present work nods towards how the Jewish position in the Land of Israel was shifting, increasingly becoming more firmly established and materially productive.  The title proclaims the book was executed upon the printing-press of ‘Moses and Judith.’ Sir Moses Montefiore, and his wife Lady Judith Montefiore of Ramsgate, England, donated the press, thus a publishing industry came to be established in Eretz Israel. For a rare variant issue of this Machzor, containing prayers in English for the British Royal Family, see Kestenbaum Sale 94, lot 306.