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

(LITURGY.

Richard Reily

London

1740

Initials floriated. Headpiece and tailpieces. With Keter Malchut. Attractive contemporary straight-grain morocco, spine in compartments, dentelles, gilt extra. Upper cover gilt-tooled: “Mary Amzalak”

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

HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY OF 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 of London. Nieto's Spanish translation of the Jewish liturgy is esteemed for its superior style and became the basis of all subsequent translations into English. See A. M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p. 183; and EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1153.