PSALMS IN HEBREW WITH LATIN TRANSLATION, EDITED BY FRANCIS HARE, CAMBRIDGE, NEW ENGLAND: HILLIARD AND METCALF, 1809

The earliest printing of any part of the Bible in Hebrew in America.

The present edition of the Psalms was the first complete book printed in the Hebrew language in America, issued by the press of Harvard College. In the upper portion of each page is the unvocalized Hebrew text of the psalter, below which appears a Latin translation. At the bottom are two parallel columns in Latin; the first contains “selected [Latin] notes from the edition of Francis Hare,” and the second, “selected variant readings” from the work of Benjamin Kennicott.