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LOT 127:
The First Hebrew Tehillim Printed in England. London, 1656
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The First Hebrew Tehillim Printed in England. London, 1656
Pair of rare and important books printed in England in 1656 by the Scottish historian William Robertson. Bound together with separate title pages.
Sepher Tehillim u-Sepher Echah The Hebrew Text of the Psalmes and Lamentations with a transcription in Latin letters. London, 1656. Hebrew and English.
Each page has two columns, the Hebrew original and the Latin transcription. English-language publisher's dedication to John Sandler at the front of the book. Printed by William Robertson.
This is the first book of Tehillim printed in England after the Jews returned there about a year earlier.
[4] leaf, 248 [should be 272], 22, [2] pp, mispaginated. 17 cm.
Bound with:
* A Key to the Hebrew Bible [alphabetic index to words in Tana"ch with translations and explanations] by William Robertson. London, 1656. English, with Hebrew words.
Key to the Hebrew Bible: by which, most of the words in all the historical books, together with many (if not all) of the most used words, thorow all the prophecies, are unlocked and opened, in an alphabetical praxis, upon the Psalms of David, and Jeremiah's Lamentations
Thick book. (Close to 1000 pp.) Mispaginated. 17 cm.
Overall fine condition.
