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Isaac Leeser (transl.) Instruction in the Mosaic Religion.

Auction 76 · Lot 6

Isaac Leeser (transl.) Instruction in the Mosaic Religion.

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$1,100

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

printer

Adam Waldie

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1830

Description

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. From the German of Joseph Johlson.

references

Singerman 489; Rosenbach 321.

summary

Isaac Leeser’s First Book, The First Religious Manual For The Jews of America. See L. J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) pp. 67-70.
pp. viii, 139. Heavily foxed, new endpapers. Original boards, broken. Tall 8vo.
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