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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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