Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

for J. Wilcox

Place

London

Publication

1738

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Sidebars provide Hebrew transliteration with a distinctly Cockney intonation.

references

Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6

summary

The First Translation of the Prayer-Book into English . Provides an important source of information on Anglo-Jewish social and religious life. See C. Roth, “Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book,” JHSE, Miscellanies II (1935), pp. 1-8.

pp. (4), 291, (7). Lightly browned and stained in places. Contemporary calf, upper cover detached. 8vo.

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