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Seder Tena’im Rishonim.

Auction 62 · Lot 18

Seder Tena’im Rishonim.

Estimate
$5,000–$7,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Isidor J. Friedman

Place

(Philadelphia)

Publication

c. 1880’s

Description

Printed, with manuscript additions in pencil and pen.

summary

Unrecorded American Engagement Contract. Outlines in Hebrew the financial obligations of the bride and groom. There is no recorded listing of this printed contract, nor any sourced reference to the activities of this particular Hebrew printer. Indeed no Hebrew document of this nature is noted as ever having been printed in 19th-century America.
Single page. Central fold, light wear, lower margin frayed. Folio.
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