Torah Nevi'im U-Kethuvim . 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. 3rd edition.

Philadelphia: Printed by Sherman & Co. for Rev. Abraham de Sola, 5633 [1872-73]. Quarto. 22 x 28.5 x 2.5cm. [8], 1011pp.Original gilt with cartouches on roan covers and the rubbed name of the original owner C. Macnec or Macneo or Macned. New goatskin spine, label and endpapers by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov...OCLC Number 1007213457Notes:Tables ([4] p.) with green and red borders for recording "Marriages, Births, Deaths, Memoranda" at end....This is the first English translation of the Hebrew Bible produced and published in the United States. The translator, Rabbi Isaac Leeser (1806–1868), was the head rabbi of the Synagogue Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, where he became America’s most prolific Jewish writer. He compiled a Hebrew reader and Jewish catechism and also edited The Occident, the first Jewish periodical in America. Leeser’s translation of the Pentateuch was published at his own expense in 1845–1846, and the complete Bible was published for the first time in 1854. .....Abraham de Sola (1825-1882) was a renowned rabbi, scholar, and lecturer whose popularity went far beyond the bounds of McGill or Montreal. Born in London to a prominent Sephardic Jewish family, he gained recognition at a very young age for his writings on Eastern languages and literature, as well as on Jewish history and scripture. In 1847, at only twenty-two years of age, he moved to Canada to become the Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation of Montreal, a community he continued to serve for thirty years. In 1853, McGill invited de Sola to become Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, and later also appointed him Lecturer in Spanish Literature. The great popularity of his lectures is perhaps best demonstrated by an extraordinary invitation in 1872: he traveled to Washington, D.C. to deliver the prayer which opened that year’s session of the United States Congress. He was the first non-Christian theologian to perform this ceremony, and his speech was very well received.