(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

AUCTION 29 | Monday, June 20th, 2005 at 1:00

Superior Hebrew Printed Books: Singular Selections from Two Distingushed Private Collections with American-Judaica.

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Lot 72

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

(Hebrew Type-face). Watson, Richard. An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine. pp. 230. Stained. Contemporary calf. 12mo. [Not in Rosenbach or Singerman]. Litchfield, Conn. T. Collier, 1797. WITH: Stiles, Ezra. A Discourse on Saving Knowledge Delivered at the Installment of the Reverend Samuel Hopkins. pp. 54. pp.41-end shorter. Unbound. [Rosenbach 52; Freimann p.54]. Newport, RI. Solomon Southwick, 1770

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

Fist Volume: Only appearance of Hebrew type in Litchfield, Conn. Watson (1737-1816), the bishop of Llandaff, England, authored An Apology for the Bible in response to the second part of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason. Apology for the Bible was oft reprinted, but the present edition is the only work ever printed in Litchfield with Hebrew type (five Hebrew letters on p. 86). It is not recorded in Freimann, or similar. Second Volume: First appearance of Hebrew type in Newport. “Contains a passage in Hebrew [26 words], and an important discussion on the Trinity from statements in the Sapeher Hajatzirah, and rabbinical books” (Rosenbach)