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1845 Pentateuch
Title: The Law of God. Volume First, Containing The Book of Genesis. Edited, and with former translations diligently compared and revised, by Isaac Leeser.
Date: Jewish date 5605 (1845)
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor.
References: Hills 1273; Herbert 1861, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.090
Contents: Genesis
Images: Hebrew Title page, English Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile is available at archive.org
Title: The Law of God. Volume Second, Containing The Book of Exodus. Edited, and with former translations diligently compared and revised, by Isaac Leeser.
Date: Jewish date 5605 (1845)
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor.
References: Hills 1273; Herbert 1861, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.090
Contents: Exodus
Images: Hebrew Title page, English Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile is available at archive.org
Title: The Law of God. Volume Third, Containing The Book of Leviticus. Edited, and with former translations diligently compared and revised, by Isaac Leeser.
Date: Jewish date 5605 (1845)
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor.
References: Hills 1273; Herbert 1861, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.090
Contents: Leviticus
Images: Hebrew Title page, English Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile is available at archive.org
Title: The Law of God. Volume Fourth, Containing The Book of Numbers. Edited, and with former translations diligently compared and revised, by Isaac Leeser.
Date: Jewish date 5605 (1845)
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor.
References: Hills 1273; Herbert 1861, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.090
Contents: Numbers
Images: Hebrew Title page, English Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile is available at archive.org
Title: The Law of God. Volume Fifth, Containing The Book of Deuteronomy. Edited, and with former translations diligently compared and revised, by Isaac Leeser.
Date: Jewish date 5605 (1845)
Publisher: Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, for the editor.
References: Hills 1273; Herbert 1861, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.090
Contents: Deuteronomy
Images: Hebrew Title page, English Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile is available at archive.org
Complete Jewish Bible - 1853
Title: (Hebrew Text) The Twenty-four Books of the Holy Scriptures: Carefully Translated According to the Massoretic Text, On the Basis of the English Version, After the Best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short explanatory notes. By Isaac Leeser.
Date: 1853
Publisher: Philadelphia: Published at 371 Walnut Street. 5614.
References: Chamberlin 116-2; Hills 1540, Herbert 1898, Taliaferro CN00134, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.100
Contents: Hebrew Bible
Images: Title page (from pdf facsimile.)
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile of the 1853 edition is available at archive.org
Later Edition
Title: (Hebrew Text) Twenty-four Books of the Holy Scriptures Carefully Translated after the Best Jewish Authorities by Isaac Leesser (sic.) Hebrew Publishing Company 83-87 Canal Street, New York 1909
Date: 1853 (reprinted many times)
Publisher: Hebrew Publishing Company: New York
References: Chamberlin 116-2; Herbert 1861, 1898, 1958, Taliaferro CN00134, Taliaferro-EELBV 7415.110
Contents: Hebrew Bible
Images: Title page
Comments: The first portion of Leeser's translation appeared in 1845. The complete Hebrew Bible was published in 1853 and a revised edition was published in 1865.
