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Lot #		18859
Auction End Date		10/9/2007 10:15:54 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Freuden-Gesang ... Franz des Ersten ...

Title (Hebrew)

Caroline Auguste.

Author

[Community - Only Ed. - Unrecorded]

City

Pesth (Budapest)

Publisher

Johann Thomas Trattner

Publication Date

1820

Collection Information

Independent Item

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Description Information

Physical
Description

Only edition. 11 pp., 231:185 mm., wide margins, light age staining, gilt edged, unsually clear text, high-quality paper, blue end-papers. A near fine copy bound in contemporary embossed red silk over boards, ruled in gilt, rubbed. Unusual exlibris (royal?) pasted onto supplementary rear end-paper. Unrecorded.

Detailed
Description

Title: Freuden-Gesang zur Feyer der beglückenden Anwesenheit ... Franz des Ersten und ... Caroline Auguste Zusatz zum Titel samt einem Gebethe, welches ... in der Synagoge am Monat September 1820 abgehalten wurde Verfasserangabe verfast von M[oritz] G. Saphir.

[Joyous celebration in honor of the presence of our sovereign Lord Franz the First, and our sovereign Lady Caroline Auguste; including prayers performed by our fellow-believers in the Mosaic religion in the Royal City of Pest in the Synagogue in the month of September, 1820]

One of the most beautiful Jewish books printed in Budapest. Poem (p. [3]-6) and prayer (p. 7-11) in honor of Franz I, Austro-Hungarian emperor, and his wife, Empress Caroline Auguste.

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