(JUDAICA) [Sewall Stephen] An Hebrew Grammar Containing a

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(JUDAICA.) [Sewall, Stephen]. An Hebrew Grammar . . . Containing a Specimen of the Whole Hebrew Language. Contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear, front board detached; occasional early annotation; early owners' signatures on front free endpaper, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Boston: R. & S. Draper for Harvard College, 1763

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first edition. In 1761, Sewall replaced Judah Monis at Harvard, and thus became the second college instructor of Hebrew in America. This book was the second published in America with extensive Hebrew text, following Monis's Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. 'The Hebrew types used in its printing were destroyed by fire in January 1764'--Evans 9514. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America, 172; Rosenbach 43; Sabin 79458.