(JUDAICA) Isaac Leeser editor The Form of Prayers According

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(JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, editor. The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. 7 volumes. 8vo and 12mo, mixed set in uniform modern calf; moderate wear to contents of Volume I, moderate dampstaining to Volume IV; some volumes with marbled edges; inked ownership stamps to Volume II. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1846 and Slote & Mooney, 1853

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Mixed second and third edition of Leeser's six-volume Form of Prayers series, which was "the first comprehensive prayer book published in America"--Goldman 36 (note). This set includes the "Second edition, revised" of Volume I from 5606 [1846] and Volumes II through VI from the stated "Second edition" (actually the third) of 5613 [1853] with Volume III here bound into two volumes. Both of these later editions are less frequently seen than the 1837 first edition. In Hebrew and English on facing pages. Singerman 0939, 1282.