Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 300
(LITURGY).

Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto.

Bound here into two volumes. Initials floriated. Headpiece and tailpieces. Later calf, covers gilt-tooled: “R.M. Henriquez, 5606.” From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. pp. 578, xxvii (Keter Malchut), (22) (Calendario). Heavily browned throughout. Worn and rubbed. 8vo. Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 303; Kayserling, p. 78.

London: Richard Reily 1740-41

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
<<THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND.>> Isaac Nieto (1687-1773), succeeded his father David Nieto, as Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of London. Nieto’s Spanish translation of the Jewish liturgy is esteemed for its superior style and became the basis of all subsequent translations into English. See A. M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p. 183; and EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1153.