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(AMERICA). Sepher Tehilim. Liber Psalmorum Hebraïce cum Notis Selectis ex Editione Frances Hare S.T.P. Episcopi Cicestrensis: et cum Selecta Lectionum Varietate Ex Ed. Vet. Test. Heb. Benj. Kennicott S.T.P. First Edition. Title in Hebrew and Latin. Hebrew and Latin translation with Latin footnotes interspersed with Hebrew. Marginalia. ff. (2), pp. 495. Lightly foxed in places, 19th-century inscriptions. Modern gilt-ruled crushed morocco. 12mo. Housed in custom solander-box. Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America no. 1; Rosenbach 152 (locating only one copy - his own); Shaw & Shoemaker 17004; Sabin 66455. Cambridge, New England, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1809. The First Printing of Any Part of the Bible in Hebrew in America. This Psalter represents the first printing in America of any portion of the Bible in Hebrew. Its appearance sparked a desire to print the complete Hebrew Bible in the New World, that reached fruition in 1814 (see Rosenbach 171). Concerning this scarce and important American Hebrew Psalter, see J. Wright, Early Bibles in America (1894) p. 122.