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Bidding Information
Lot #    23893
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:25:44 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Seu Biblia Hebraica
Title (Hebrew)    úåøä ðáéàéí åëúåáéí
Author    [Bible] R. Isaac Leeser
City    Philadelphia
Publisher    J. P. Lippincott
Publication Date    1868
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    xx, [1], 1416 pp., 8vo., 223:131 mm., usual light age staining, wide sharp margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather and cloth boards, rubbed and starting. This edition not in CD-EPI, HPA, Singermann.
          
Detailed
Description		    Reprint of the first pointed and cantillated Bible printed in America (Philadelphia 1849). It is considered “a fine piece of printing as well as a careful edition of the text” (Matityahu Tsevat, “A Retrospective of Isaac Leeser’s Biblical Work,” Essays in American Jewish History [Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1958], 297-99). The volume contains a preface by Leeser in Latin.
          
Reference
Description		    Not in CD-EPI
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, some Latin
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica