Seder Tephiloth - Kathimerinai Proseukhsi.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 92

(CORFU).

Seder Tephiloth - Kathimerinai Proseukhsi.

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli with editorial assistance of Abraham Yizchaki. Hebrew inscription on opening blank dated Ioannina (Greece), Rosh Hashanah 1918 written by a soldier, Eliahu Izmo of Corfu, stating he leaves this prayer-book for public use: “The merit of which should rescue me from the labors of the army …and return to my home in peace.” pp. (8), 426 (of 427), lacking final page. Browned, stained in places, p. 425 torn on bottom affecting text, slight worming on a few leaves, few leaves loose. Contemporary boards, worn. 8vo.

Corfu: By the Translator 1885

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

<<THE ONLY JEWISH PRAYER BOOK TRANSLATED INTO GREEK.>> One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu- the majority of which were broadsides and all issued in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, “The Hebrew Press in Corfu” in: Perakim Be’Toldoth Ha’Madphisim Ha’Ivri’im (1978) pp. 337-42, no. 6 - without seeing a copy and quoting the bookseller David Frankel’s Catalogue of Greek Prints, No. 32.