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Auction 68 · Lot 302

The Form of Prayers. According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Fast Day Service.

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
$500

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

author

(LITURGY).

printer

Slote & Mooney

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1857

Description

Edited by Isaac Leeser. Hebrew and English on facing pages. David de Sola Pool’s annotated copy with many of his marginal notations, as well as additional typed notes laid in.

summary

David de Sola Pool utilized this Leeser prayer-book as a working template for the new Fast Day liturgical edition he was preparing.
pp. 215. Loss to upper corner of Hebrew title-page, browned. Later boards. 8vo.
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