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Bidding Information
Lot #    17914
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:28:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Pronaos to Holy Writ
Author    [First Ed.] Isaac Mayer Wise
City    Cincinnati
Publisher    Robert Clarke
Publication Date    1891
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Cloth; 8vo. 193 pages. Gilt titles; floral endpapers. Printed on laid bond. Library stamp on one page, otherwise clean. Original boards, which are waterstained. Endpapers brown & detached as often found, but internal paper & binding remain very good. Good Condition thus.
          
Paragraph 1    Title: Pronaos to Holy Writ : establishing on documentary evidence, the authorship, date, form, and contents of each of its books, and the authenticity of the Pentateuch / by Isaac M. Wise.
          
Detailed
Description		    No. 4. Publication of the Hebrew Sabbath-School Union of America. Isaac Mayer Wise was an American Reform rabbi, author, and organizer; President of Hebrew Union College; editor of the American Israelite and Deborah, and of the Minhag America, the first common American prayer book, which preceded the Union Prayer Book.
          
Reference
Description		    Singerman 4295
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Reform:    Checked
Other:    Religion
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica