Auction 43 Catalogue - Kestenbaum & Company

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1 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). Bikurei ha-Yam: The First Fruits of the West. Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 3.
Kingston, Jamaica, 1844. * Olath Tamid, Book of Prayers for Israelitisch Congregations. Prepared by
David Einhorn]. [Singerman 2340; Karp, From the Ends of the Earth pp. 303-4]. New York, 1872. *
Lazarus, Emma. Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and other Poems. FIRST EDITION. New York,
1882. * Friedman, Lee M. Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal: His Newport Sermon and His Yale Portrait.
Boston, Privately Printed, 1940. Together four works. Some wear. Variously bound. v.s.
$500-700
2 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). The Occident and American Jewish Advocate. A Monthly Periodical
Devoted to the Diffusion of Jewish Knowledge. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Volumes I (pp. 616). *
Volume II: (pp. 616). * Volume III: (pp. 628). Together three volumes, each with detailed Table
of Contents. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rubbed. 4to. [Rosenbach 541].
Philadelphia, C. Sherman: 1844-46. $800-1200
3 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). LEESER, ISAAC. “History of the Jews and Their Religion” in:
Cyclopedia of Religious Denominations. Containing Authentic Accounts of the Different Creeds
and Systems Prevailing Throughout the World. Written by Members of the Respective Bodies.
Third edition. pp. 8 (Leeser’s contribution). Very light stains. Original boards, gilt extra. Sm. 4to.
Glasgow, Bell and Bain: (1853). $1500-2000
❧ In this overview of Judaism, the “Pastor of the Hebrew Portuguese Congregation,
Philadelphia,” Rev. Isaac Leeser, takes the reader back to the times of Abraham and Moses,
presents Maimonides’ Thirteen Articles of Faith, and quotes Mendelssohn’s “Jerusalem”
concerning the signifi cance of the commandments and ceremonies
Rare to appear at auction.
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4 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). LYONS, JACQUES J[UDAH] AND DE SOLA, ABRAHAM. A Jewish
Calendar for Fifty Years. FIRST EDITION. pp. 177, (1). Trace foxed, a few scribbles in pencil. Modern boards. 8vo.
Montreal, John Lovell: 1854. $2000-2500
❧ In addition to calendars for 1853 to 1903, the most important feature of this volume is
that it contains the fi rst Jewish communal directory published in North America. It consists
of a comprehensive detailed twenty-fi ve page survey of synagogues, societies and other
Jewish institutions across America, Canada and the Caribbean. The inclusion of such a
communal survey in the volume was likely the initiative of Jacques J. Lyons (1813-1877).
A native of Surinam and the Minister of New York’s Shearith Israel congregation, Lyons
was the fi rst to express a serious interest in American Jewish history and actively collected
communal data and other such ephemera.
Abraham De Sola (1825-1882), a native of London, moved to Montreal to assume the pulpit
of Shearith Israel of that city. De Sola was the fi rst Jew to be awarded a Doctor of Laws degree
in the English-speaking world and became senior professor at McGill University. Despite
being both a Jew and a British subject, de Sola was invited by President Grant to deliver the
convocation at the opening of a Congressional session. Both Lyons and De Sola were vigorous
upholders of traditional Judaism.
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5 (AMERICAN JUDAICA). (Bible. Hebrew). Torah Nevi’im u-Kethuvim. Biblia Hebraica.
Edited by Everard van der Hooght. With notes by Isaac Leeser. Square Hebrew characters with
vowel points and cantillation. Title Latin and Hebrew. Two-page introduction by Isaac Leeser
in Latin (dated September 1848), followed by two-page Latin introductuion by Augustus
Hahn. Appended, a short Hebrew-Latin dictionary of terms occurring in the Masoretic notes.
pp.(6),1416. Some marginalia in light pencil, otherwise clean copy. Contemporary diced morocco, scratched.
Thick 4to. [Not in Vinograd or Darlow & Moule; cf. Singerman 1271].
Philadelphia, L[aurent] Johnson et Soc.: 1856. $500-700
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