(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]
AUCTION 33 |
Tuesday, June 20th,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters
Lot 9
(ANGLO JUDAICA)
(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]
London: Richard Reily 1740
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,500
THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND. A FINE COPY HANDSOMELY BOUND
David Nieto (1654-1728), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London (1701-28), was a curious mixture of the traditional and the modern. See A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951), pp. 79-81; EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 1152-3