Seder Tephiloth - Kathimerinai Proseukhsi

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 152

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Seder Tephiloth - Kathimerinai Proseukhsi

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli with editorial assistance of Abraham Yizchaki. According to Sephardic rite pp. (8), 427. Browned, pages loose. Original calf-backed marbled boards, worn, needs rebinding. 8vo

Corfu: By the Translator 1885

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

THE ONLY JEWISH PRAYER BOOK TRANSLATED INTO GREEK. One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu - the majority broadsides and all in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, The Hebrew Press in Corfu in: Perakim BeToldoth HaMadphisim Ha’ivri’im (1978) pp. 337-42, No. 6 - without seeing a copy and quoting the bookseller David Frankel’s Catalogue of Greek Prints, No. 32