Seder Tephiloth-Kathimerinai Proseukhsi. According to Sephardic rite

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 86

(GREEK JUDAICA).

Seder Tephiloth-Kathimerinai Proseukhsi. According to Sephardic rite

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli with editorial assistance of Abraham Yizchaki pp. (8),427. Browned, stained in places, scattered worming in places, Greek title and dedication loose. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed. 8vo

Corfu: By the Translator 1885

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

ONLY PRAYER BOOK TRANSLATED INTO GREEK. One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu- the majority broadsides and all in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, “The Hebrew Press in Corfu” in Perakim Be’toldoth Ha’madphisim Ha’ivri’im (1978), pp. 337-42, No. 6 - without seeing a copy and quoting the bookseller David Frankel’s Catalogue of Greek Prints, No. 32