Seder HaAvoda by Shalom HaCohen – Leipzig, 1819 – First Edition

Sefer HaAvoda / Historisch-Kritische Darstellung des jüdischen Gottesdienstes [Critical-historical presentation of Jewish prayer]. By Salomon Jacob Cohen [Shalom HaCohen]. Leipzig: Rein’sche buchhandlung, 1819. German and some Hebrew. First edition.
Composition by the poet and maskil Shalom HaCohen (1771-1845), about the history of Jewish prayer.
XXII, [6], 276 pages, 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, creases and slight defects to margins. Old, slightly worn cardboard binding, with abrasions and defects to edges and along the seam of the spine, two stickers on the spine.