Orden de las Oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kippur [Prayer-Book for New Year and Day of Atonement]. Translated into Spanish by Isaac Nieto.

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

printer

Richard Reily

Place

London

Publication

1740

Description

One divisional title for Hebrew Calendar 1740-1762. Initials floriated. Headpiece and tailpieces. Inscription to H. Benharoch

references

Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 303; Kayserling, p. 78

summary

THE FIRST JEWISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLAND. Isaac Nieto (1687-1773), succeeded his father David Nieto, as Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. Nieto's translations are esteemed for their superior style, his Spanish translation became the basis of all subsequent translations into English. See Hyamson, The Sephardim of England, p.183; EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1153

pp. 16, 24, 27, 578. Trace foxed. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf, spine in compartments, gilt extra, clasps. On spine, "J.R. Arpalham." 4to

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