Principios de Instruccion Religiosa y Moral para la Ensenanza de la Juventad Hebrea

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Lot 294

JESURUN, ANGEL J

Principios de Instruccion Religiosa y Moral para la Ensenanza de la Juventad Hebrea

Two manuscript leaves laid in at end of Morning and Evening Prayers in Spanish with sporadic use of Hebrew pp.(4), xiv, 50(of?) lacking at least one leaf at end, signature on title, each leaf remargined and laid to size, stained, contemporary cloth, dampsoiled Unrecorded by both Palau and BMC. Unknown to Kayserling

Caracas: Imprenta Boliviana por D. Salazar 1845

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

Exceptionally early Venezuelan Jewish imprint. Jesurun, a member of an old Sephardi family, wrote this catechism of Judaism for Jewish children at a time when no organized Jewish life existed in Caracas. Indeed, the earliest documentation of Jewish settlement in the capital of this South American republic is 1880. See EJ, V 157