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Auction 51 · Lot 152

Seder Tephiloth - Kathimerinai Proseukhsi

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$900

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

author

(CORFU).

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. According to Sephardic rite

summary

THE ONLY JEWISH 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 BeToldoth HaMadphisim 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, pages loose. Original calf-backed marbled boards, worn, needs rebinding. 8vo
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