Seder HaTefiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Seder HaTefiloth - The 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 (as usual). Original calf with gilt-tooled roan spine-labels, rubbed. 8vo Singerman 436; Rosenbach 284; Vinograd, New York 6

New York: Solomon Henry Jackson 1826

Est: $25,000 - $30,000

PRICE REALIZED $40,000

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