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Burgess, Thomas [1756-1837] : HEBREW ELEMENTS or A Practical Introduction for the Reading of the HEBREW SCRIPTURES

Richard Priestley, 143 High Holborn, London, 1823

8vo. xii, 187, [i], [2pp pub. cat. listing the Tracts as available separately. Bound in the original blue boards with brown paper spine and a printed paper label. A RARE Hebrew primer printed by Richard Priestley. The slim volume consists of four tracts each with its own title-page Tracts one and two are a Hebrew Pirmer and Syllarium Herbraicum and 3 and 4 Hebrew Readers each with a separate dated title-page 1822-23. Printed at the University Press, Glasgow for Richard Priestly. [Copac 1 copy only]. Added title-page [1. A Hebrew primer, to which are prefixed, the opinions of Melancthon, Luther, and others, on the utility, necessity, and easiness of the study of the Hebrew language -- 2. Syllabarium hebraicum: or, a second step to the reading of Hebrew without points -- 3. The Hebrew reader: Part I. Containing the Decalogue, and the first chapter of Genesis, in Hebrew and English, with the reading of the Hebrew in roman letters. To whish are prefixed, testimonia de officio instituendi pueros in hebraicis litteris -- 4. The Hebrew reader: Part II. Containg extracts from the Bible.]. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardback

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