Seder Hatefiloth-Form of Daily Prayers. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Seder Hatefiloth-Form of Daily Prayers. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and English on facing pages. Translated by Solomon Henry Jackson. Edited by E.S. Lazarus (uncle to Emma Lazarus) ff. (3), 234, pp.11. Foxed. Contemporary crimson gilt-tooled morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentilles and extras, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. 8vo Vinograd, New York 6

New York: Solomon Henry Jackson 1826

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $21,000

The First Hebrew Prayer-Book Printed in America. Solomon Henry Jackson (d.1847), the first Jewish printer in New York, posessed both English and Hebrew type fonts and thus was the first to print bi-lingual Hebrew matter in America. Undoubtedly, his most important work was this Form of Daily Prayers, the crown jewel of early American Hebrew printing