(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 13

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Leeser, Isaac. The Jews and the Mosaic Law. “Part the First: Containing a Defence of the Revelation of the Pentateuch, and of the Jews for their Adherence to the Same” and “Part the Second: Containing Four Essays on the Relative Importance of Judaism and Christianity” pp. 8, (2), 278. Some browning. Original boards with paper spine-label, spine starting, rubbed. Lg. 8vo Singerman 578; Rosenbach 375

Philadelphia: A. Waldie 1833

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Isaac Leeser’s second published book and his first original work, was an outgrowth of his defense of Judaism that appered in American periodicals in 1829. It was because of these arguments that Leeser was invited to occupy the pulpit of Philadelphia’s Mikveh Israel - the base from which he established himself as leader of traditional Judaism in America. The boldness of Christian missionaries in America was of frequent concern to Leeser, duly reflected by his writings.