(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im u-Kethuvim / The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 23

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im u-Kethuvim / The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures.

Translated and with explanatory notes by Isaac Leeser. Second edition. English interspersed with Hebrew. Presentation inscription by Leo L. Schwarzenberger, 16th May, 1865. Manuscript records at end. pp. 8; 1011, (4). Lightly foxed, some wear, opening few leaves loose. Original morocco, gilt extra; boards detached, lacking backstrip. Lg. 4to.

Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co. 1859

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Final three manuscript pages record in English and Hebrew, detailed birth-marriage-death cycle of previous 19th-century owners of this Bible: Members of families Schwarzenberger, Roggenburger and Newgarden. Also records two wedding-services performed by Isaac Leeser for members of these familie