Sewall, Stephen. An Hebrew Grammar

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Sewall, Stephen. An Hebrew Grammar

FIRST EDITION. English and Hebrew with nikud (vowel points). Headpiece. Marginalia in a contemporary hand pp. (2), 6, 83. Foxed. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked. 8vo Rosenbach 43 (includes facs. of title)

Boston: R. and S. Draper for the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1763

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

This grammar was preceded three decades earlier by Judah Monis' seminal Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet / A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue, published in Boston in 1735, "especially for the use of the students of Harvard College"