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Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society (JPS), 1893. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Octavo. Navy Blue cloth over boards, with gilt lettering and silver decorative border and vignette to front board. Gilt and silver lettering and design (respectively) also, to spine. Just a little bit of rubbing to extremities (some nudged corners, and shelf-fraying to spine-caps, but overall tight and bright. Fifty-four sermons, one for each Sabbath of the year, with two additional for leap years, were culled from two volumes of German sermons on texts from the Pentateuch, published by the late Rabbi Liebman Adler of Chicago. Brief biographical sketch of Adler included. [i-x] + 338 pp. + 11 pp. advertisements. Liebman Adler was born January 9, 1812. "...immigrating to America in his early forties. Adler served as rabbi at Temple Bethel in Detroit before assuming the pulpit of Kehillath Anshe Maarabh in Chicago in 1861. His arrival coincided with a period of dissension within the German… Read More