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Proposals by Mills Day, New-Haven, for publishing by subscription, an edition of the Hebrew Bible, from the text of Van-Der-Hooght.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Mills, 1783-1812.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19935.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Hooght, Everardus van der, 1642?-1716.
- Hooght, Everardus van der.
- Bible. Old Testament--Hebrew.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible--Publication and distribution.
- Genre:
- Prospectuses.
- Physical Description:
- 6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New Haven] : [publisher not identified], [1810]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- "Conditions. ... Subscription papers to be returned to Walter, Austin & Co. booksellers, New-Haven, by the 1st of July. ... New-Haven, March 20, 1810."--p. 5.
- Apparently an insufficient number of subscriptions were received to encourage publication. The first Hebrew Bible published in America was issued by Thomas Dobson at Philadelphia in 1814.
- Without wrapper, but with a strip of paper attached to reinforce sewing.
- Includes blank form for subscribers' names, p. 5-6.
- "Liber Genesis," a specimen of Hebrew text, p. [7-8].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19935).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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