(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

printer

Richard Reily

Place

London

Publication

1740

Description

Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto. Includes Keter Malchut and Calendar

references

Roth B8, 7; Kayserling 78

summary

THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND. A FINE COPY HANDSOMELY BOUND David Nieto (1654-1728), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London (1701-28), was a curious mixture of the traditional and the modern. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 79-81; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 1152-3

pp. xxvii, (1), 578. Ex-library. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary splendid red morocco, gilt extra. Spine in compartments, somewhat starting. 8vo

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