(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto, Rab of K[ahal] K[adosh] of London

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

printer

Richard Reily

Place

London

Publication

1740

Description

One divisional title for Hebrew Calendar 1740-1762. Initials floriated. Headpiece and tailpieces

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 303; Kayserling, p. 78

summary

HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND. Isaac Nieto (1687-1773), succeeded his father David Nieto as Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. Nieto's translations are esteemed for their superior style and his Spanish translation became the basis of all subsequent translations into English. See Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), p.183; EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1153

pp. 16, 578, (2), 27, 25. Browned and slightly wormed. Contemporary crushed black morocco, gilt extra, rubbed. 8vo

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