Seder Hatefiloth-Form of Daily Prayers. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: $21,000

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Solomon Henry Jackson

Place

New York

Publication

1826

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and English on facing pages. Translated by Solomon Henry Jackson. Edited by E.S. Lazarus (uncle to Emma Lazarus)

references

Vinograd, New York 6

summary

The First Hebrew Prayer-Book Printed in America. Solomon Henry Jackson (d.1847), the first Jewish printer in New York, posessed both English and Hebrew type fonts and thus was the first to print bi-lingual Hebrew matter in America. Undoubtedly, his most important work was this Form of Daily Prayers, the crown jewel of early American Hebrew printing

ff. (3), 234, pp.11. Foxed. Contemporary crimson gilt-tooled morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentilles and extras, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. 8vo

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