Sepher Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce cum Notis Selectis ex Editione Frances Hare S.T.P. Episcopi Cicestrensis: et cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P.
Auction 94 |
Thursday, June 17th,
2021 at 11:00am
Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx
Lot 479
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
Sepher Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce cum Notis Selectis ex Editione Frances Hare S.T.P. Episcopi Cicestrensis: et cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P.
Cambridge, New England: Hilliard and Metcalf 1809
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
<<The First Printing of Any Part of the Bible in Hebrew in America.>>
This Psalter represents the first printing in America of any portion of the Bible in Hebrew. Its appearance sparked a desire to print the complete Hebrew Bible in the New World, that reached fruition in 1814 (see Rosenbach 171).
Concerning this scarce and important American Hebrew Psalter, see J. Wright, Early Bibles in America (1894) p. 122.