The Form of Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Fast Day Service.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 302

(LITURGY).

The Form of Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Fast Day Service.

Edited by Isaac Leeser. Hebrew and English on facing pages. <<David de Sola Pool’s annotated copy>> with many of his marginal notations, as well as additional typed notes laid in. pp. 215. Loss to upper corner of Hebrew title-page, browned. Later boards. 8vo.

Philadelphia: Slote & Mooney 1857

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $500

David de Sola Pool utilized this Leeser prayer-book as a working template for the new Fast Day liturgical edition he was preparing.