Beit Tefillah siddur, year-round prayers, Sephardic tradition. Pisa (Amsterdam letters), [1815]. Printed by Shlomo Molcho. Miniature volume, with an original leather binding. [2], 2-204 leaves. 7.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Several detached leaves. Ancient leather binding, damages and tears to binding. Rare. According to bibliographic records, two editions were printed that year in Pisa. One including 210 leaves and the other including only 196 leaves. This copy is the second edition, with the addition of Leaves 197-204 with piyyutim of Rabbi Moshe Adahan, and colophon on Leaf 204/b.

Machzor, Ashkenazi tradition [Italy], with Hadrat Kodesh commentary. Part 1 and Part 2, prayers for the whole year, the High Holidays and Festivals. Venice, [1599-1600]. Bragadini Printing Press, by Juan Di Gara. On the title page of Part 1 are signatures in ancient Ashkenazi handwriting from the time of printing: “I, Meir ben Moshe Shalit Morenkfort”. Another signature (erased) of “Binyanim Eliyahu…”. 2 volumes: 340 leaves; 315 leaves. 30-32 cm. Fair condition, wear and stains. Restored damages to several leaves. New bindings with vellum spine.

Set of machzorim, tradition of Poland, Pehm and Mehrin, published by Rabbi Wolf son of R’ Shimshon of Heidenheim. Redelheim, 1800-1805. Nine volumes. Some are first editions of the machzorim of Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim and others are from reprints of the edition at that time. The set is composed of a machzor for the first day of Rosh Hashanah – 1804; Machzor for the second day of Rosh Hashanah – 1804; for Arvit of Yom Kippur – 1803 (this printing has the approbation of the author of the Hafla’a); Machzor for Yom Kippur – 1803, first edition; Machzor for the first and second days of Pesach – 1804; for the seventh and eighth days of Pesach – 1800, first edition: Machzor for Shavuot – 1805, first edition; Machzor for Succot and Shabbat Chol HaMoed – 1804; Machzor for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah – 1805. Bound at the end of the Machzor of Shavuot is a bibliographically unknown leaf: “These are the words of the proclamation announced in public in the synagogues…Iyar 1805…in Frankfurt am Main...in the name of the Av Beit Din Rabbi…Pinchas HaLevi Ish Horowitz…” – “Approbation and ban” not to print the Redelheim machzorim. On one side in Hebrew and Yiddish and on the verso in German. The printing of the first edition of the Heidenheim machzorim began in 1800 and was completed in 1805 with the printing of the Shavuot machzor (written on that volume: “And the work of this part was completed and with it all the 60 Kerovot with all its nine divisions”). During this era, the first volumes were reprinted a number of times. Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Heidenheim – The Rava (1757-1832), exegete, grammarian and renowned mesorah researcher. In his printing press in Redelheim, he printed his works on grammar, his accurate Chumashim printed according to the mesorah, and his famous machzorim “Sefer Kerovot”. The Chatam Sofer gave his approbation for his books and praised them. Many times in his sermons and in his compositions the Chatam Sofer cites the commentaries and glosses of “The complete sage R’ Wolf Heidenheim”. His machzorim greatly contributed to the study and preservation of the piyyutim of Ashkenazi communities and they were reprinted in hundreds of editions until the Holocaust. 9 volumes, 19 cm. Partially printed on light-blue leaves. Overall good condition. Stains. Worming in several places. Ownership inscriptions and family inscriptions on a few volumes. Original leather bindings, with damages.