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.

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 12

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

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.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title in Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew and Latin translation with Latin footnotes interspersed with Hebrew. ff. (2), pp. 495. Foxed in places, few leaves starting, 19th-century inscriptions on opening blank. Contemporary tree-calf, rubbed, small chip at top portion of spine. 12mo. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 1; Rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004; Sabin 66455.

Cambridge, New England: Hilliard and Metcalf 1809

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

<<The First Printing of Any Part of the Bible in Hebrew in America. A highly desired American Judaicum.>> 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.