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.

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Hilliard and Metcalf

Place

Cambridge, New England

Publication

1809

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title in Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew and Latin translation with Latin footnotes interspersed with Hebrew.

references

Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 1; Rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004; Sabin 66455.

summary

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.

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.

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