Sepher Tehillim. 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.

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Sepher Tehillim. 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.

Title in Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew and Latin translation with Latin footnotes interspersed with Hebrew. ff. (2), pp. 494 (of 495). Missing final leaf. Ex-library. Some foxing. Later cloth. 12mo Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 1; Rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004

Cambridge, New England: Hilliard and Metcalf 1809

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

The First Printing of Any Part of the Bible in Hebrew in America. This Psalter represents the first printing in America of any part 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 1809 Hebrew Psalter, see J. Wright, Early Bibles in America (1894), p. 122.