Seder HaTephiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 31
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Seder HaTephiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
New York: Solomon Henry Jackson 1826
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,000
<<The First Hebrew Prayer-Book Printed in America.>>
Solomon Henry Jackson, the first Jewish printer in New York, possessed both English and Hebrew type fonts and thus was the first to print bilingual Hebrew matter in America. Undoubtedly, his most important work was this prayer-book, the crown jewel of early American Hebrew printing.
Jackson (d. 1847) was active in several New York congregations and a supporter of the Chevrath Chinuch Ne’arim Jewish Educational Society. For more concerning his life, see A.J. Karp, Beginnings: Early American Judaica (1975) p. 38-41.