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The Synagogue and the Covenant: Two Sermons.

Auction 83 · Lot 9

The Synagogue and the Covenant: Two Sermons.

Estimate
$4,000–$6,000
Hammer price
$12,000

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

author

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

printer

B. Brown

Place

Mobile, Ala.

Publication

1858

Description

The First Delivered at the Dedication of the New Synagogue, Shangarai Shamayim, of Mobile, Alabama, on Friday, Sevan I, 5618, A. M. (May 14, 1858). The Second, on the Sabbath Following. By James K. Gutheim, Minister of the Congregation Dispersed of Judah, of New Orleans, La. Printed errata-slip pasted to verso of upper cover.

references

Singerman 1530 (unseen).

summary

James K. Gutheim (1817-86) born in Westphalia, immigrated to the United States in 1843. Although he occupied pulpits in other American cities, Gutheim is most closely associated with New Orleans, the city where he eventually died, an avowed and unrepentant Confederate patriot.
pp. (1), 20. Foxed in places, margins of title-page stained. Original printed wrapper (upper cover only). 8vo.
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