(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im u-Kethuvim / The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

L. Johnson & Co.

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1859

Description

Translated and with explanatory notes by Isaac Leeser. Second edition. English interpersed with occasional Hebrew. Presentation inscription by Leo L. Schwarzenberger, 16th May, 1865.

summary

Final three pages record in English and occasionally Hebrew, detailed birth-marriage-death cycle of previous 19th-century owners of this Bible: Members of the families Schwarzenberger, Roggenburger and Newgarden. Also records two wedding-services performed by Isaac Leeser for members of the families. The Leeser Bible remained the standard Tanach of the American Jewish community well into the 20th-century. See L. J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) p. 191-3.

pp. 8; 1011, (4). Lightly foxed, some wear, opening few leaves loose. Original morocco, gilt extra; boards detached, lacking backstrip. Lg. 4to.

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