Gomez, Isaac. Selections of a Father for the Use of his Children. In Prose and Verse.

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 137

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Gomez, Isaac. Selections of a Father for the Use of his Children. In Prose and Verse.

FIRST EDITION. pp. viii, 408. Lightly browned. Contemporary calf, extremeties rubbed. 8vo Singerman 322; Rosenbach 209

New York: Southwick and Pelsue 1820

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

Earliest Children’s Book by an American Jew. Isaac (1768-1831) prominent in Jewish communal affairs was the great-grandson of Lewis Moses Gomez founder of this successful early American Jewish family. See J.R. Rosenbloom, A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews (1960) p.45.