(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH WITH HAPHTAROTH). Sepher Ezrath Hasopher

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Gerard Johann Janson

Amsterdam

1769

Five volumes each with additional title page engraved by Aaron Santcroos. Haphtaroth at the end of each volume with separate title page. * With (end of Vol.V): Piza, Jeudah. Luchoth Ha'Ibbur / Calendario Facil & Curiozo. [112-year calendar in Hebrew and Portuguese]. ff. (8). Six leaves on wider paper, folded. Bookplate of Rabbi David de Sola Pool. On final page of Vol. I, Dutch inscription: "Geschenke gegeven von de Heer Joseph Abarbanel de 3e Novbr. 1834. J. Lyons." ["Given as a gift by Mr. Joseph Abarbanel, November 3, 1834. (Signed) J. Lyons."]

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1975 and 1970

Copy of Jacques Judah Lyons, Minister of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York. Judah Eleazar Lyons and Mary Asser Levy Lyons were natives of Philadelphia who emigrated to Paramaribo, Surinam. There their son, Jacques Judah Lyons (1813-77), was born and educated and later served as Minister of Paramaribo's Congregation Neveh Shalom. After a brief stint as Minister of Richmond, Virginia's Beth Sholom (1837-1839), in 1839 Lyons was elected Minister of Shearith Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese congregation of New York, in which capacity he served until his death. He was buried encased in a casket made from the Reader’s desk of the Crosby Street Synagogue. In conjunction with Rev. Dr. Abraham de Sola of Montreal, Rev. Lyons published in 1857 a fifty-year Hebrew calendar (see Lot 21). See Biographical Sketch of Jacques Judah Lyons in: AJHSJ Vol. XXI (1913).