Sidur Siphthei Tzadikim / The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Volume Second - New Year Service. Prepared by Isaac Leeser. List of Subscribers at end.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1838

Description

Half-title inscribed: “REBECCA S. SEIXAS, NEW YORK, PRESENTED TO HER BY THE EDITOR. ”

references

Goldman, 36; Vinograd, Philadelphia 12.

summary

Sidur Siphthei Tzadikim, Rev. Isaac Leeser’s comprehensive prayer book, was the first American edition containing the liturgy for the entire year. A landmark in the early flowering of the Religious Jewish Community of America. A fine association copy. Rebecca Seixas was the wife of Isaac Benjamin Seixas (1781-1839) of Richmond, Virginia.

ff. 121. Touch foxed, bookplate. Contemporary calf, worn, backstrip damaged. 4to.

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