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Seder Tephiloth-Kathimerinai Proseukhsi. According to Sephardic rite

Auction 19 · Lot 86

Seder Tephiloth-Kathimerinai Proseukhsi. According to Sephardic rite

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$2,750

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(GREEK JUDAICA).

printer

By the Translator

Place

Corfu

Publication

1885

Description

Separate Hebrew and Greek title pages. Hebrew with Greek translation on facing pages. Translated by Joseph Nahmuli with editorial assistance of Abraham Yizchaki

summary

ONLY PRAYER BOOK TRANSLATED INTO GREEK. One of only fourteen items printed on the Greek island of Corfu- the majority broadsides and all in very few copies. See A. M. Habermann, “The Hebrew Press in Corfu” in Perakim Be’toldoth Ha’madphisim Ha’ivri’im (1978), pp. 337-42, No. 6 - without seeing a copy and quoting the bookseller David Frankel’s Catalogue of Greek Prints, No. 32
pp. (8),427. Browned, stained in places, scattered worming in places, Greek title and dedication loose. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed. 8vo
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