SILVA, JOSHUA DA. Discursos Predycaveys que o Docto Haham Yeosuah da Sylva, Pregou no K.K. Sahar a Samaym em Londres

AUCTION 28 | Tuesday, April 05th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

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(ANGLO JUDAICA)

SILVA, JOSHUA DA. Discursos Predycaveys que o Docto Haham Yeosuah da Sylva, Pregou no K.K. Sahar a Samaym em Londres

FIRST EDITION. Portuguese interspersed with Hebrew. Printers device on title. Historiated initials and tailpieces pp. (16), 497, (1). 4to. Some browning. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed, loss to spine. 4to Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 322, no. 1; Kayserling, p. 102

Amsterdam: Jacob de Cordova 1688

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

The First Publication of any Jewish Sermon Delivered in England. (Hyamson, p.59) Haham Joshua da Silva, was Ab Beth-Din of London. Nine years after his death, da Silva's widow, published a selection of his synagogue addresses. The final sermon in the book (pp.487-97) is the eulogy delivered in da Silva's memory by his mentor, Haham Isaac Aboab of Amsterdam. Da Silva's sermons contain valuable material concerning the history of the Jews of London. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 41, 59