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

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

printer

for J. Wilcox

Place

London

Publication

1738

Description

FIRST EDITION. Prayer section only, lacking initial descriptive section.

references

Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6; ESTC T86072.

summary

The First Translation of the Prayer-Book into English. Sidebars provide Hebrew transliteration with a distinctly Cockney intonation. See C. Roth, Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book, in: JHSE, Miscellanies II (1935), pp. 1-8.

pp. (4), 291, (7). Contemporary calf with central motif, rebacked. 8vo.

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