Biblia Hebraica Secundum Ultimam Editionem Jos Athiae A Johanne Leusden Denuo Recognitam

by Hebrew Bible

$18,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Printed by William Fry for Thomas Dobson, 1814. First edition of the first Hebrew Bible printed in America, of major importance in the field of American Judaica – this copy with the leaf explaining the genesis of this edition and present in very few copies. Based on a Bible published in Amsterdam in 1705 by Everard van der Hooght, which became a model for many other editions of the Hebrew Bible,

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