Auction 80
Fine Judaica: * A Singular Collection of Important Hebrew Manuscripts. * Printed Books: Exceptional Offering from Two Notable Collections. * The Yosef Goldman Collection of American-Judaica.
Mar 28, 2019
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LOT 161:
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(Bible, English). Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim- The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully Translated According to the Massoratic Text, After the Best Jewish Authorities and Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes by <<ISAAC LEESER.>>
Printed in two columns. FIRST EDITION.
pp. iv, 1011, (8 - family record). Occasional foxing. Contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled calf, gilt dentilles, rubbed and scuffed. Lg. 4to. Singerman 1271.
Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co 1853
The first English translation of the Bible by a Jew. Perhaps Leeser’s crowning achievement was his translation of the Bible into English. His version, truly a monumental effort, became the standard American Jewish translation and remained so, well into the 20th-century. See L. J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995) pp. 186-93.
