(Bible, English). Torah Nevi'im u-Kethuvim / The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 20

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(Bible, English). Torah Nevi'im u-Kethuvim / The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures.

Carefully Translated…and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes by Isaac Leeser. The Hester Rothschild Copy, with her signature and four manuscript pages of Rothschild family records. pp. 4, 1011, (1 blank). Ex-library, few stains. Contemporary diced calf, heavily scuffed, boards broken. Thick 4to Goldman no. 12

Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co 1853

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $8,000

the first english translation of the bible by a jew. Prepared by the celebrated American Rabbi, Isaac Leeser. 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. Isaac Leeser arranged for the publication of Hester Rothschild's Meditations and Prayers (Philadelphia, 1864). See L.J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser, pp. 209-10.