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Lot #    17919
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:30:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    A Hebrew grammar
Title (Hebrew)    compiled from some of the best authorities
Author    [First Ed.] Sidney Willard
City    Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publisher    Harvard University Press by Hilliard and Metcalf
Publication Date    1817
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Cloth, 8vo, 1, l, [iii]-xv, 86 pages. 22 cm. Bound in modern buckram. Library blindstamp on title page, usual foxing, otherwise a very nice clean copy.
          
Detailed
Description		    Willard's father and grandfather were both presidents of Harvard. For twenty-four years he was Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at Harvard, and in later years a dedicated public servant serving as both state senator and mayor of Cambridge. In his preface Willard argues for his book citing the great expense to which students of theology must go to procure suitable Hebrew grammars. But surely he was not in ignorance of Sewall's (1802, 1806, 1812) , Smith's (1803, 1810.) , Stuart's (1813) , and Carvalho's (1815) grammars, all but the last printed in either Cambridge or Boston to meet the Harvard demand.
          
Reference
Description		    Shaw 42908. Not in Goldman. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Grammar
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica