Auction 48 · Lot 264

Seder HaTephiloth - The Form of Daily Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portugese Jews.

Estimate: $20,000–$30,000
Hammer price: $17,000

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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 the printer, Solomon Henry Jackson. Edited by E.S. Lazarus (uncle to Emma Lazarus). Rare folding plate at end with blank cartouche frame.

references

Singerman 436; Rosenbach 284; 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. Jackson was active in several New York congregations and a supporter of the Chevrath Chinuch Ne'arim, a Jewish educational society. More concerning his life, see A.J. Karp, Beginnings: Early American Judaica (1975) p. 38-41. The Crown-Jewel of Early American Hebrew Printing. Rarely Appears at Auction.

pp. (7), ff. 2-234. With a further 11 pages of notes at end (minute hole in pp. 5-6 and 9-10). Mispaginated (as issued) but complete. p. 234 on different paper stock. Ex-library, top outer corner of ff. 38-9 torn away with small loss. pp.123 and 142-3 torn, lower fore-edge frayed in places, foxed. Later boards, a.e.g. 4to

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