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MONIS, Judah (1683-1764). Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue. Being an Essay to bring the Hebrew Grammar into English...Published More Especially for the Use of the Students of Harvard-College at Cambridge, in New England. Boston: Jonas Green for the author, 1735.
4o (227 x 177 mm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers (spine chipped in several places, minor dampstain to upper margin of last several quires), but AN EXCEPTIONALLY TALL COPY, WITH NONE OF THE OVERSIZE PLATES CROPPED (as is often the case with this book); blue half morocco clamshell case. Provenance: Samuel C. Webster (ink inscription dated 1758 and a list of Hebrew words on first blank).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HEBREW GRAMMAR PUBLISHED IN AMERICA, displaying the first complete font of Hebrew type used in America. Monis (1683-1764), who was born in Algiers or Italy, studied at Leghorn and in Amsterdam, and was a rabbi in Jamaica and then New York. He moved to Boston and in 1720 proposed to Harvard College the publication of a Hebrew grammar. He was awarded an M.A., and in 1722 formally accepted baptism and was named the first instructor in Hebrew at Harvard. RARE: Only three copies have been offered at auction since 1975. "The first complete fount of Hebrew types in the American colonies was that used in the printing of Judah Monis's Hebrew Grammar..." (W. Eames, "On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America Before 1735," A. S. Friedus Memorial Volume, New York, 1929, p. 481). Evans 3931; Rosenbach 28.
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A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HEBREW GRAMMAR PUBLISHED IN AMERICA, displaying the first complete font of Hebrew type used in America. Monis (1683-1764), who was born in Algiers or Italy, studied at Leghorn and in Amsterdam, and was a rabbi in Jamaica and then New York. He moved to Boston and in 1720 proposed to Harvard College the publication of a Hebrew grammar. He was awarded an M.A., and in 1722 formally accepted baptism and was named the first instructor in Hebrew at Harvard. RARE: Only three copies have been offered at auction since 1975. "The first complete fount of Hebrew types in the American colonies was that used in the printing of Judah Monis's Hebrew Grammar..." (W. Eames, "On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America Before 1735," A. S. Friedus Memorial Volume, New York, 1929, p. 481). Evans 3931; Rosenbach 28.