Levi, David. A Succinct Account of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 21

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Levi, David. A Succinct Account of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew. Single engraved plate depicting Mezuzah and Tephilin pp. 312, 6, (1). p. 32 marginalia in pencil. p.35 torn. Lightly browned. Contemporary tree calf, scuffed, starting. 8vo Roth, Magna, p.331, no. 17

London: J. Parsons (1784)

Est: $400 - $600

A comprehensive presentation of the quotidian laws and life-cycle celebrations of Judaism, as well as a survey of the Mishnah or Oral Law. The Author was the first Jew to present in the English language a defense of Jews and Jewish religious practices. See J. Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1956), pp. 219-20