Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews.

Auction 90 | Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 1:00pm

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Lot 74

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Prayer section only, lacking initial descriptive section. pp. (4), 291, (7). Contemporary calf with central motif, rebacked. 8vo. Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6; ESTC T86072.

London: for J. Wilcox 1738

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

<<The First Translation of the Prayer-Book into English>>. Sidebars provide Hebrew transliteration with a distinctly Cockney intonation. See C. Roth, Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book, in: JHSE, Miscellanies II (1935), pp. 1-8.