Apr 07, 2022 - Sale 2600

Sale 2600 - Lot 126

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(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, crudely bound in circa 1920s boards with unrelated gilt trademark; hinges split, dampstaining, minor wear; all edges gilt; inscription on front pastedown. 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.