Leeser, Isaac (Ed.) Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews [in America]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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Leeser, Isaac (Ed.) Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews [in America]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Much used: Week-day prayers, Havdallah (wine-stained), Traveler’s prayers. Inscriptions on endpapers relate the prayer-book was given by Siegmund T. Meyer on his wedding-day, May 26th 1853, to his English-born bride Mary Phillips (1832-84) and then further given, to their daughter, Madeline Meyer in 1902. ff. (4), 243. Worn. Later covers detached, lacks spine 4to. Vinograd, Philadelphia 18; Rosenbach 636; Singerman 1024; Goldman, 37

Philadelphia: C. Sherman 1848

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

First Aschkenazi Prayer Book Printed in America. Prepared by the champion of American Orthodoxy, Isaac Leeser. Unlike many other American-issued prayer-books, this particular copy is of note for its well-worn appearance due to devoted daily use.