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LITURGY. Seder arba ta'aniyot. [Fastday prayers according to the Sephardic rite]. Amsterdam: Immanuel ben Joseph Athias, 1688-89. [2], 120 leaves. Title within decorative border, dated 1688, and second title-page, dated 1689. 8vo, 153 x 95 mm. (6 x 3½ in.), contemporary calf, ruled in blind, two clasps (catches missing), lower spine end defective; hinges cracked, some light staining and browning. Steinschneider 2198; Fuks, Hebrew Typography 400 and 401; not in Zedner; not in Roest; not in Van Straalen. Issued both as part 3 of a 3 volume Sephardic festival prayerbook (1689) and as a separate edition (1688). This is most probably the 1688 issue.