The Students Prayer Book - A New Interlineary Translation of the Daily, Sabbath and Festival Prayers… Designed to Serve as an Introduction to the Sacred Language by Abraham Pereira Mendes.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

printer

N. P. Vallentine

Place

London

Publication

1874

Description

Ex-library: Her Majesty’s CONVICT PRISON WORMWOOD SCRUBS, and Convict Prison Portsmouth, with institutional stamps.

summary

Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1825, Abraham Pereira Mendes occupied rabbinic and educational posts in England and the Americas. Following the death of Haham Artom in 1879, Mendes served as preacher and Dayan of the Sephardi Community of London. He also established Northwick College, a school for Jewish youth. See A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England(1951) index.

pp. (5), 9, 419 (i.e. 423), (1). Trace foxed in places, pp. 19-30 misbound, infinite number of institutional stamps on title and throughout the volume. Recent boards. 4to.

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