Bidspirit auction | Tehillim and Eichah – London,

Tehillim and Eichah – London, 1656 – Printed the Year After Return of Jews to England. - Sefer Tehillim and Sefer Eichah — The Hebrew Text of the Psalms and Lamentations, with transliteration in Latin letters, edited by the historian William Robertson. London, no printer’s name, 1656. Hebrew and English. This is apparently the first Hebrew Book of Psalms printed in England after the return of the Jews approximately one year earlier (following an absence of more than 350 years מאז the expulsion in 1290). This edition was printed in several variants; in this copy, the Hebrew text (with vowelization) appears alongside a transliteration in Latin characters. [8], 248, 22, [2] Pp. 16.5cm.