(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

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(LITURGY). Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]

Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto. Includes Keter Malchut and Calendar pp. xxvii, (1), 578. Ex-library. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary splendid red morocco, gilt extra. Spine in compartments, somewhat starting. 8vo Roth B8, 7; Kayserling 78

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