Select Sentences: Designed as a Moral Guide-Book for Young Israelites.

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Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 16

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Select Sentences: Designed as a Moral Guide-Book for Young Israelites.

Introduction by Rev. Isaac Leeser. Front free endpaper with signature of the American historian and communal leader Emily Solis-Cohen. Few penciled marginal notes. pp. 200. Browned. Original boards, light wear, a.e.g. 12mo. Singerman 1325.

Philadelphia: 1854

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,000

Issued anonymously by Sarah Harris, “a lady for whom I entertain the highest esteem,” writes Isaac Leeser in his preface to this scarce little book.