Gomez, Isaac. Selections of a Father for the Use of his Children. In Prose and Verse.

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

Southwick and Pelsue

Place

New York

Publication

1820

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Singerman 322; Rosenbach 209

summary

Earliest Children’s Book by an American Jew. Isaac (1768-1831) prominent in Jewish communal affairs was the great-grandson of Lewis Moses Gomez founder of this successful early American Jewish family. See J.R. Rosenbloom, A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews (1960) p.45.

pp. viii, 408. Lightly browned. Contemporary calf, extremeties rubbed. 8vo

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