Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 158

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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(JUDAICA--RELIGION.) 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 gilt-tooled full morocco, moderate wear, rejointed; lacking front free endpaper, foxing, minimal dampstaining. 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.