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Lot 117
Sale 5213 - Rare Books and Manuscripts
Apr 4, 2013
6:00AM ET
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$2,500
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1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Lesser, Isaac, ed.) The Book of Daily prayers for Every day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5608 [1848]. 1st ed. Tall 8vo, contemp. full gilt tooled & stamped green morocco, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g.; corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, joints and edfes occasionally rubbed. Tall, externally clean copy. Complete with 1/2 title. Rosenbach museum book plate & accession stamp on paste down.
First Ashkenazic Prayer book edited and printed in America; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, (2004), #1024; Rosenback #959; Goldman 37.