Seder Tena’im Rishonim.

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 18
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Seder Tena’im Rishonim.

Printed, with manuscript additions in pencil and pen. Single page. Central fold, light wear, lower margin frayed. Folio.

(Philadelphia): Isidor J. Friedman c. 1880’s

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
<<Unrecorded American Engagement Contract.>> Outlines in Hebrew the financial obligations of the bride and groom. There is no recorded listing of this printed contract, nor any sourced reference to the activities of this particular Hebrew printer. Indeed no Hebrew document of this nature is noted as ever having been printed in 19th-century America.