Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto.

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto.

One divisional title for Hebrew Calendar 1740-1762. Initials floriated. Headpiece and tailpieces. Inscription to H. Benharoch pp. 16, 24, 27, 578. Trace foxed. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf, spine in compartments, gilt extra, clasps. On spine, "J.R. Arpalham." 4to Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 303; Kayserling, p. 78

London: Richard Reily 1740

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND. Isaac Nieto (1687-1773), succeeded his father David Nieto, as Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. Nieto's translations are esteemed for their superior style, his Spanish translation became the basis of all subsequent translations into English. See Hyamson, The Sephardim of England, p.183; EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1153