Wilson, James P. An Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the Hebrew Language Without the Points. Selected Translations of the Pentateuch, Psalms, Prophets and Job; plus a Hebrew Grammar.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Fry and Kammerer

Place

Philadelphia

Publication

1812

Description

FIRST EDITION.

references

Goldman, 175.

summary

The first work in Hebrew to appear in Philadelphia. The first Hebrew text with translation of selected passages of the Bible (other than psalms) published in America. See Wolf and Whiteman, The History of the Jews of Philadelphia (1957) p. 308.

pp. 275, (1). Foxed and stained, leaves loose. Contemporary calf, boards detached, worn. 8vo.

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