Gebeden der Portugeesche Jooden.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

Lion Cohen

Place

Graavenhaage

Publication

1791

Description

Complete in four volumes. Text in Dutch with headers in Hebrew. Learned marginal notations in places, occasionally quite dense. Manuscript family-records on front free endpages of first volume. Formerly in the Willy Lindwer collection.

summary

First translation of the prayers into Dutch. A handsome set, in a fine contemporary binding.

Contemporary uniform tan tree-calf, gilt-tooled borders with central gilt-tooled crested cartouche on upper and lower covers, gilt-tooled spine with crimson spine labels, a.e.g. Lg. 8vo.

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