Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo.

PARDO, JOSEPH.

Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi

Amsterdam

1686

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch incorporating printers device (cf. Ya’ari’s Printers Marks no. 66). Five page dedication in Spanish to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London. Approbations by members of the Rabbinate of Amsterdam.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 534.

Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, London, a post to which his son succeeded him. “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola.” See A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) p. 78.