March II 2021 Catalogue

B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s F a i t h 2 0 2 1 52 Handsome Livorno-Printed Jewish Prayer Book, In Contemporary Morocco With Brass Furniture 53. (PRAYER BOOK) Sefer Tefilot ha-Kadosh, ke-minhag kahal Kadosh. Livorno, circa 1838. Octavo, contemporary full black morocco, brass furniture. $1800. Click for More Info Scarce 19th-century Livorno-printed Sephardic prayer book, printed by Solomon Belforte, in handsome contemporary morocco binding with brass furniture. With a finely penned page in Hebrew manuscript bound in at rear. In the 19th century, Livorno “became the printer for Jewries across the whole of North Africa” (Yerushalmi, 55). “Leghorn [Livorno] also became a center of Hebrew printing… Sixteen printers set up in Leghorn between 1763 and 1870, the most important being the house of Solomon Belforte which supplied the North African and Levantine market with liturgical books until the outbreak of World War II” ( Encyclopaedia Judaica , X). Text in Hebrew. Vinograd, Livorno 823. Late 19th- century ink owner inscriptions in French. Several leaves roughly handled and expertly repaired, expert repairs to binding, without one brass cornerpiece and catch. A very good copy.