Auction: Sale #2040 - 2040Location: BostonDate / Time: April 23, 2001 10:00AM
Description:
(Haggadah) SERVICE FOR THE FIRST NIGHTS OF PASSOVER, according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews, with a compendium of the laws relating to the festival and its observances; copious explanatory notes and a new English translation by the Rev. A. P. Mendes, London, P. Vallentine, 1862, 51 leaves , 2 p., 3rd edition, 8vo, original stamped cloth, (Yudlov 1159; Yaari 859),(discolored, staining). Note: English Rabbi and educator, Abraham Pereira Mendes (1825-1893) was Rabbi for the Newport, Rhode Island, Sephardic congregation.
Estimate $400-600