(JUDAICA) Francis Hare editor Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce

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(JUDAICA.) Francis Hare, editor. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce. [2], 495 pages. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, moderate wear, rejointed; intermittent foxing; lacking the blank flyleaves found in some copies, title page washed and dampstained, intermittent lesser dampstaining elsewhere with some reinforcement, many early ink and pencil notes to text; early owner's signature on front free endpaper. In modern cloth folding case. Cambridge, MA, 1809

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"First printing of any part of the Bible in Hebrew in America"--Goldman. With translation and notes in Latin. After a few Hebrew characters appeared in the 1640 Bay Psalm Book, "more than one-and-a-half centuries passed before Americans attempted to publish a Hebrew edition of the Bible"--Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 1 and page 1. This copy is signed "SWillard," presumably by Sidney Willard (1780-1856), the longtime professor of Hebrew language at Harvard, who published "A Hebrew Grammar" in 1817. He may have planned a revised edition of the Psalms; one passage on page 184 is marked "to be omitted." Rosenbach 152; Sabin 66455; Wright, Early Bibles page 122 ("very rare").