Primitive Work Bench — auction comparables · Snaplot Comparables
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7,193
Median
£242
Suggested estimate
£50 – £560
25–75% range
£54 – £1,047
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£1 – £5,630,073
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Sell-through 94% of lots sold
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Trend→ steady -9% over 8y
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7,218 comparables for “Primitive Work Bench” · page 290 of 301
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>MONIS, JUDAH.</strong></span></p>
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<p>Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue. Being an Essay to Bring the Hebrew Grammar into English to Facilitate the Instruction of All Those who are Desirous of Acquiring a Clear Idea of this Primitive Tongue by their Own Studies…Published More Especially for the Use of the Students of Harvard College at Cambridge, in New England. </p>
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<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>FIRST EDITION.</strong></span></p>
<p>Title in English and Hebrew. English text interspersed with fully vocalized Hebrew.</p>
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<p>pp. (4), 94, (2). Lightly browned, extreme outer corer of couple leaves repaired. Original boards, later rebacked, upper cover detached, worn. 4to. Housed within folding-case and calf-backed slip-case. 4to. </p>
<p>Singerman 24; Rosenbach 28; Evans 3931.<br /></p>
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<p>Boston, Jonas Green, 1735.</p>
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<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>The First Hebrew Grammar Published in the New World. The First Book Printed by a Jew in North America.</strong></span></p>
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<p>Printed from “the first complete font of Hebrew types in the American Colonies.” </p>
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<p>Born into a family of former Portuguese conversos, Judah Monis (1683-1764) emigrated from Europe to North America around 1715. Settling first in New York City, he moved to Boston, where he was publicly baptized on March 27, 1722. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Harvard College’s first Hebrew Instructor, a position he held until his resignation in 1760. </p>
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<p>Already by 1720, Monis had completed a first draft of the grammar textbook he would eventually use to teach Hebrew at Harvard. Because of a lack of funds and sufficient Hebrew type, however, the book was not published until 1735. As the first Hebrew grammar printed on American soil, Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet would serve generations of students at Harvard and other institutions of higher learning in New England. </p>
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<p>See M. Klein, Judah Monis: A Jew at Harvard in the Eighteenth Century in: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. XCVII (1986); and G.A. Kohut, Judah Monis, The First Instructor in Hebrew at Harvard University in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages, Vol. XIV. </p>
<p> See also, W. Eames, On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America before 1735 in: Studies in Jewsh Bibliography and Related Subjects in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) p. 481.<br /></p>
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kestenbaum· Jan 2025
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>MONIS, JUDAH.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong><br /></strong></span>Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet. Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue. Being an Essay to Bring the Hebrew Grammar into English to Facilitate the Instruction of All Those who are Desirous of Acquiring a Clear Idea of this Primitive Tongue by their Own Studies…Published More Especially for the Use of the Students of Harvard College at Cambridge, in New England. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>FIRST EDITION.</strong></span> Title in English and Hebrew. English text interspersed with fully vocalized Hebrew. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>pp. (4), 94, (2). Lightly browned, extreme outer corer of couple leaves repaired. Original boards, later rebacked, upper cover detached, worn. 4to. Housed within folding-case and calf-backed slip-case. 4to. </p>
<p>Singerman 24; Rosenbach 28; Evans 3931.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Boston, Jonas Green, 1735.</p>
<p><br /></p>
<p><span style="color:#9C0000"><strong>The First Hebrew Grammar Published in the New World. The First Book Printed by a Jew in North America.</strong></span></p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Printed from “the first complete font of Hebrew types in the American Colonies.” </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Born into a family of former Portuguese conversos, Judah Monis (1683-1764) emigrated from Europe to North America around 1715. Settling first in New York City, he moved to Boston, where he was publicly baptized on March 27, 1722. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Harvard College’s first Hebrew Instructor, a position he held until his resignation in 1760. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>Already by 1720, Monis had completed a first draft of the grammar textbook he would eventually use to teach Hebrew at Harvard. Because of a lack of funds and sufficient Hebrew type, however, the book was not published until 1735. As the first Hebrew grammar printed on American soil, Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet would serve generations of students at Harvard and other institutions of higher learning in New England. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>See M. Klein, Judah Monis: A Jew at Harvard in the Eighteenth Century in: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. XCVII (1986); and G.A. Kohut, Judah Monis, The First Instructor in Hebrew at Harvard University in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages, Vol. XIV. </p>
<p><br /></p>
<p>See also, W. Eames, On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America before 1735 in: Studies in Jewsh Bibliography and Related Subjects in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929) p. 481.</p>
