(LITURGY). The Students Prayer Book- A New Interlineary Translation of the Daily, Sabbath and Festival Prayers....Designed to Serve as an Introduction to the Sacred Language by Abraham Pereira Mendes

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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(LITURGY). The Students Prayer Book- A New Interlineary Translation of the Daily, Sabbath and Festival Prayers....Designed to Serve as an Introduction to the Sacred Language by Abraham Pereira Mendes

EX-LIBRARY: Her Majesty’s CONVICT PRISON WORMWOOD SCRUBS, AND CONVICT PRISON PORTSMOUTH, with institutional stamps pp.(5),9,419 (i.e. 423),(1). Trace foxed in places, pp. 19-30 misbound, infinite number of institutional stamps on title and thoughout the volume. Recent boards. 4to

London: N. P. Vallentine 1874

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1825, Abraham Pereira Mendes occupied rabbinic and educational posts in England and the Americas. Following the death of Haham Artom in 1879, Mendes served as preacher and Dayan of the Sephardi Community of London. He also established Northwick College, a school for Jewish youth. See A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England(1951) index