Seder ha-Tephiloth ke-Minhag ha-Sephardim [Daily Prayers according to Sephardic Rite]
AUCTION 35 |
Tuesday, November 21st,
2006 at 1:00
Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 4
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Seder ha-Tephiloth ke-Minhag ha-Sephardim [Daily Prayers according to Sephardic Rite]
Amsterdam: Naphtali Herz Levi Rophe 1726
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $550
COPY OF REV. J.J. LYONS OF CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL, NEW YORK.
Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877), a native of Surinam, Dutch Guiana, was elected in 1836, Minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City, in which capacity he served for the next thirty-eight years. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 231. In 1857, together with Rev. Dr. Abraham De Sola of Montreal, he published a fifty-year Hebrew calendar.