Just put to press, and will be published with all convenient speed, the first American edition of Van der Hooght's Hebrew Bible, without the points. By J. Horwitz..

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Author / Creator:Horwitz, J. (Jonathan), 1783-1852.
Imprint:[Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson, 1813]
Description:[4] p. ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:Library Company's copy (not folded) inserted, following preliminary advertisements for books published by Eastburn, Kirk & Co., in part 7 (1813) of their edition of the Holy Bible (1811-1826).
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not in AAS.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10360272
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Notes:Prospectus, by Jonathan Horwitz, for the first Hebrew Bible published in America, issued by Thomas Dobson in 1814.
Caption title.
Example of Hebrew text (p. 1 of Bible) printed on p. [4]
"In consequence of an arrangement with Mr. Horwitz, gentlemen holding subscription papers are requested to return them, by the 1st of August, 1813, to Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second street, Philadelphia. Subscriptions will be received by Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia; also by Eastburn, Kirk and Co. New York, and James W. Burditt & Co. Boston."--P. [3].
"The work is printing by William Fry ..."--P. [2]. Fry presumably printed the prospectus as well.
Signatures: A².
Not in: Shaw & Shoemaker.
Wolf, E. Unrecorded Judaica, 38
Singerman, R. Judaica Americana, 0232
Goldman, Y. Hebrew printing in Amer., 3
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa.: NewsBank, inc., 2010. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819

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