Bidspirit auction | Exquisite Beauty! High Holiday Prayer

Exquisite Beauty! High Holiday Prayer Book – Amsterdam, 1726 – Two Volumes in Magnificent Original Leather Bindings with Rich Gold Tooling - Order of Prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, according to the custom of the Sephardic communities. Amsterdam, 1726. Printed by Naftali Hertz son of Alexander Süsskind of Emden. An exceptionally magnificent copy, in two volumes, preserved in beautiful original period leather bindings, richly and impressively decorated with gold tooling. Gilt edges and original colored endpapers. Amsterdam Hebrew printing has long been celebrated for its beauty and typographical elegance, and the present copy is a particularly fine example of the art of the Hebrew book in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. The two parts of the High Holiday prayer book – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – have been preserved in their original leather bindings. The bindings are decorated with elaborate gilt frames and ornamental designs, with the inscription “ANNO 5523” [תקכ”ג] tooled in gold on the rear covers. A particularly impressive copy: original leather bindings, lavish gold tooling, gilt edges and original colored endpapers – a beautiful and uncommon example of an Amsterdam Sephardic prayer book preserved in fine condition. Amsterdam, 1726. Two volumes. 81; 82–220 leaves. 16 cm. Very good condition. Original leather bindings with exceptionally rich and impressive gold tooling. Minor flaws to bindings. Small defect at the upper edge of the spine of the Yom Kippur volume. Gilt edges. Original colored endpapers.