Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

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Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two parts in one. Sidebars provide Hebrew transliteration with a distinctly Cockney intonation. pp. (4), 291, (7). Lightly browned and stained in places. Contemporary calf, upper cover detached. 8vo. Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6

London: for J. Wilcox 1738

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

<<The First Translation of the Prayer-Book into English>> . Provides an important source of information on Anglo-Jewish social and religious life. See C. Roth, “Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book,” JHSE, Miscellanies II (1935), pp. 1-8.