Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 175:
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
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Sold for: $2,500
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2,500
Estimated price:
$3,000 - $5,000
Auction house commission: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On lot's price, no sales tax on commission
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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
Machzor - Form of Prayers for the New Year.
According to the Custom of the Polish Jews. Hebrew with English translation on facing pages.
Lightly foxed, previous owner’s inscription (post-1900) on rear pastedown. Contemporary morocco with gilt extra, rubbed, upper cover detached, backstrip lacking. 8vo. Singerman 1285.
New York: Henry Frank 1854 (or 1853)
HEIDENHEIM EDITION. THE FIRST SUCH MACHZOR PRINTED IN AMERICA. Issued by the Jewish printing establishment of Henry (Chaim) Frank of New York and based upon the celebrated Wolf Heidenheim edition, this prayer-book enabled the newly rising community of Aschkenazi American Jews to conduct services according to their own custom, as opposed to that of the Sephardic rite. See Goldman (Hebrew Printing in America, no. 40) who notes that the printer also prepared a version of the High Holiday Machzor for German Jews alongside this Polish version. Goldman however does not possess a copy of this Polish edition. See Kestenbaum Sale 55, lot 20.
