(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully Translated According to the Massoratic Text, After the Best Jewish Authorities and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes by <<ISAAC LEESER.>>

AUCTION 80 | Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully Translated According to the Massoratic Text, After the Best Jewish Authorities and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes by <<ISAAC LEESER.>>

Printed in two columns. <<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. iv, 1011, (8 - family record). Occasional foxing. Contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled calf, gilt dentilles, rubbed and scuffed. Lg. 4to. Singerman 1271.

Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co 1853

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

<<The first English translation of the Bible by a Jew. >> Perhaps Leeser’s crowning achievement was his translation of the Bible into English. His version, truly a monumental effort, became the standard American Jewish translation and remained so, well into the 20th-century. See L. J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) pp. 186-93.