(JUDAICA) Isaac Leeser editor The Book of Daily Prayers for

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(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, editor. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year, According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [4], 243 leaves, in Hebrew and English on facing pages. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, moderate wear; minor foxing; early owner's inscription on front pastedown and her inked stamps on half-title and title pages. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5608 [1848]

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"To unite Ashkenazic Jews in America using different prayer books and to provide them with an error-free text, Leeser issued this work, the first Ashkenazic prayer book published in America"--Goldman 37. Rosenbach 636; Singerman 1024. Provenance: This prayer book was the property of Madame Bernheim of 613 Magazine Street in New Orleans. Antoinette Loewenberg Bernheim (1837-1893) was a dressmaker on Magazine Street from 1866 to 1877.