Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 157

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(JUDAICA--RELIGION.) Joseph Johlson. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. viii, 139 pages. 8vo, contemporary cloth, worn, failed repairs to joints; heavy foxing to preliminary leaves; uncut; numerous markings by early owners and Gratz College Library on front pastedown, title page, and elsewhere. Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 5590 [1830]
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First edition of this American translation by Isaac Leeser--and Leeser's first published work. Rosenbach 321; Singerman 0489.

Provenance: gift from "Amske" to original owner Harman Van Beil, a Dutch Jewish immigrant to Philadelphia, bookbinder and president of Congregation Rodeph Shalom (inscription on rear pastedown, 16 August 1830 inscription, inked name stamps on title and page 1); Judge Mayer Sulzberger (1843-1923), a noted collector and close colleague of Leeser (1866 inscription and his later bookplate); Gratz College Library (inked stamp on title page, bookplate with "withdrawn" stamp).

With--the expanded second edition. vii, [1], 212 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; various ownership markings to endpapers and title page. Singerman 2021. Philadelphia: Jones & Thacher, 5627 [1867].