JUDAICA. - VENTURE (Mardochée). Daily prayers... - Lot 146 - Giquello

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JUDAICA. - VENTURE (Mardochée). Daily prayers... - Lot 146 - Giquello
JUDAICA. - VENTURE (Mardochée). Daily prayers for the use of Portuguese or Spanish Jews. This volume contains the Prayers of all the Working Days, Saturdays, Ros-Hodes, Hanukkah, Purim, with their Paraschiot, the particular Fast & other Prayers, translated from the Hebrew. Nice, Et se trouve à Paris, Lambert, 1772. In-12, black crushed basane, gilt fillets and corner irons, initials JH gilt on the first board, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (Binding of the first half of the 19th century). First edition. Born in Nice around 1730 and died in 1789, Rabbi Mordecai Venture was secretary-interpreter of the King's Library for Oriental languages and one of the leaders of the French Jewish community. In his long preface (XXIV pages), he mentions the difficulties encountered in translating these Hebrew prayers into French. Some foxing. Binding rubbed.
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