Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(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.