Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(JUDAICA.) Roy, William L. A Complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary. [7], vi-viii, [4], 9-740 pages. Large 8vo, early 1/2 calf, minor wear; dampstaining, minor foxing, short closed tear on final leaf; bound in after the title page is an additional leaf of recommendations on heavier stock, not called for in Goldman or Rosenbach; 1870 owner's inscription on title page. New York, 1837

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first edition. Roy was a New York language instructor who billed this work as "the first and only original English and Hebrew Lexicon ever published in the United States" (page vi). Though written by a gentile for the benefit of biblical scholars, it received the formal endorsement of Jerusalem rabbi Enoch Zundel--the first such endorsement by a foreign rabbi of an American book (following page viii). Goldman 185; Rosenbach 417.