Kettilby Joshua (fl circa 1760) Hebrew Made Easy or a Brief

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Kettilby, Joshua (fl. circa 1760) Hebrew Made Easy: or, a Brief Introduction to the Hebrew Grammar. Octavo, A-B4, C5 +single leaf (addenda? shorter at head and tail) that begins, "A complete example of the old verb Pol.," disbound, holes punched along gutter from earlier bindings, generally good, small hole in title, rare, no copies of this edition in North America, only the Bodleian copy is listed in ESTC; the first edition (ca. 1760) is only held at the Huntington and British Libraries, no copies of either at auction, 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. London: by S. Chandler for the author, second edition, [n.d. circa 1762].

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Second edition. "The Hebrew language has a certain force of signification which is wholly lost in a translation." ESTC T192490.