The Testimony: An Address

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Lot 9

(AMERICAN JUDAICA). LEESER, ISAAC.

The Testimony: An Address

FIRST EDITION Trace foxed, unbound, 8vo Singerman 1195; Levine 8

Philadelphia: C. Sherman 5611 [1851]

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

Sermon delivered at the opening of the Hebrew Education Society’s first Day School. A development Leeser had been urging for nearly a decade. See M. Friedman (ed.) Jewish Life in Philadelphia 1830-1940 (1983) pp. 239-42