Three Tracts on the Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; with an Appendix addressed to the Hebrew Nation.

Published by Printed by W. Calvert Great Shire-lane Temple-bar; for Vernor and Hood Poultry; F. and C. Rivington St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. White Fleet-Street; J. Hatchard Piccadilly; W. Dwyer Holborn; and L. Pennington at Durham., London, 1804

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16mo, half black cloth with gold lettering, edgeworn marbled paper covered boards, spine and corners badly worn and chipped, old buckram repair to the bottom inch of the spine, front board detached (bearing the bookplate of the Private Library of Joseph A. Sadony, [viii], 66, ii, 106, ii, 32, iv, 146, 38, [viii], Indexes to the Three Tracts and Appendix on the Hebrew Tongue, The titles of the three tracts, which each hold their own original title pages, are "A Letter to a Learned Friend Respecting Some Particularities of the Hebrew Syntax, Which have no hitherto been Sufficiently Explained by the Hebrew Grammarians, Or by any other Commentator On that most ancient and most valuable Language," "An Account of Some Other Particularities in the Hebrew Tongue, in addition to That Class of Particularities lately explained in 'A Letter to a Learned Friend,'" and "A Short Tract on the Pronunciation of the Hebrew Vowel Letters, Without Points: being an attmpt to restore a regular sound to the Original Hebrew Vowels, by a Fair and Resonable Exertion of Etymology, in comparing derivatives of various languages with their Original Hebrew Source," all dated 1803. And with "Appendix to Three Tracts on the Peculiar Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; Addressed more particularly to the Consideration of the Hebrew Nation," dated 1804. Though Sharp was an estimable man who made important contributions to classical philology and to the struggle against slavery, his appendix is predictably of a Missionary nature.…

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Title
Three Tracts on the Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; with an Appendix addressed to the Hebrew Nation.
Author
Sharp, Granville.
Publisher
Printed by W. Calvert Great Shire-lane Temple-bar; for Vernor and Hood Poultry; F. and C. Rivington St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. White Fleet-Street; J. Hatchard Piccadilly; W. Dwyer Holborn; and L. Pennington at Durham., London
Publication year
1804
Condition
Fair
Binding
Hardbound

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