Nos. 1 and 2. THE HEBREW BIBLE; FROM THE EDITION OF EVERARDO VAN DER HOOGHT

New York: Published by Whiting & Watson. Composed and printed by Fanshaw and Clayton. Stereotyped by D. & G. Bruce, 1815. First edition. 24 cm. [6], 41, 112 pp. Contemporary leather spine (cracked and worn) and marble boards, leather spine label. Joints cracked, strengthened with cloth straps over spine attached to boards. Ex-lib. Rosenbach 175. Goldman, Y. Hebrew printing in America, 1735-1926, 5. Not in Singerman. Early use of stereotype plates. Rosenbach considers this to be a prospectus for a work to be completed in sixteen numbers. The first complete Hebrew Bible was done in America in 1814 which may have caused a lack of subscription to this one, at any rate this is all that was printed. Additionally, the editors acknowledge in their introductory note "[t]he friendly and valuable aid which the editors have received from C.C. Moore, Esq....To whatever accuracy and merit their edition may lay claim, the labours of this gentleman largely contribute." [C.C. Moore, who was also a Hebrew scholar, is not however given any credit for authorship or editorship for this work by BAL]. Bookplate on the pastedown of the Andover Theological Institution [withdrawn]. "A small group of faculty members broke away from Harvard amidst a theological dispute to form Andover Theological Seminary in 1807. Its primary purpose was to educate Congregational ministers. At its founding, it was the first graduate school of any kind in North America. It served as the model for postgraduate theological education for generations." [see: the Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School into which it evolved]. Most recent auction record was Sotheby's in 2019 where it brought $5,250.