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(ANGLO-JUDAICA). GAMALIEL BEN PEDAHZUR (i.e. Abraham Mears). The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews. FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one. Sidebars provide Hebrew transliteration with a distinctly Cockney intonation. 1741 owner’s inscription. Ex-library with shelf-stamp on title, lightly browned, marginal notations. Modern library boards. 8vo. Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6. London: for J. Wilcox 1738 THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE PRAYER-BOOK INTO ENGLISH. Provides an important source of information on Anglo-Jewish social and religious life. See C. Roth, Gamaliel Ben Pedahzur and his Prayer Book, in: JHSE, Miscellanies II (1935) pp. 1-8. SEE LOT 221.