Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 15, 2018
USA
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LOT 178:
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
De La Motta, Jacob (d. 1845). Autograph Manuscript. Sermon: Bevo kol Yisrael… / When all Israel is come… (Deuteronomy 31:11-13). Written in Hebrew and English.
Hebrew in square Hebrew characters and English in cursive script.
39 pages, stained, final page torn. Unbound. 4to.
Charleston: 1832
“The Following Discourse was Delivered in the Year 1832 Before the Congregation Beth Elohim of Charleston, in their Synagogue, by Jacob De La Motta, M.D. their President or Parnass” (written on first page in another hand).===A native of Savannah, Dr. Jacob de la Motta was a physician and pharmacist, with far-reaching interests in politics, natural history and philosophy. He also acted as Reader of Charleston's Congregation Beth Elohim for several years. In 1820, de la Motta delivered a Discourse at the consecration of Savannah's synagogue which was later published and copies sent to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.===See C. Reznikoff, The Jews of Charleston (1950), pp. 86-88.
