00B. [Isaac Leeser's Jewish Publishing Society Produces a Bible for Young Jews] Ennery, J. [Jonas]. Translated by A. I. H. Bernal. Preface and "Address to the Israelites" by Isaac Leeser.

[MESILAT YISRA’EL]. THE PATH OF ISRAEL; OR, ABRIDGMENT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: FOR THE USE OF THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION, BY J. ENNERY, OF STRASBURG. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. THE JEWISH MISCELLANY, NO. V, XI, XIV; [COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME AS ISSUED] מסלת ישראל

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1850. Item #42791

5610. 1st Complete English-language edition; First appearance of parts 2 & 3 (Nos. XI & XIV) anywhere. Part 1 (No. V) had first appeared by itself in 1847. Original boards, 12mo, [4], 390 pages. With 3-volume title page, no internal sectional title pages (?), presume as issued. Singerman 968. Rosenbach 609, 634, 668.
The copy belonging to Gratz College, itself founded by the copyright holders' family. The copyright page notes, "Entered....in the year 1847, by John Moss, Mayer Arnold, and Gratz Etting."
Published by Isaac Leeser's first Jewish Publication Society; Isaac Leeser had, himself, published the first Jewish translation of the 5 books of Moses into English just 5 years earlier, in 1845. Leeser's monumental Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, the first Jewish translation of the 24 books of the Bible into English, would not appear until 1852.
”The author, Jonas Ennery (1801-1863), was a French deputy. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish school of Strasbourg, of which he became the head. In collaboration with Hirth, he compiled a Dictionnaire Général de Géographie Universelle (4 vols., Strasburg, 1839–41), for which Cuvier wrote a preface. Soon afterward he published Le Sentier d'Israël, ou Bible des Jeunes Israélites (Paris, Metz, and Strasburg, 1843).
At the request of the Société des Bons Livres he took part in the editorship of Prières d'un Cœur Israélite, which appeared in 1848. In 1849, despite anti-Jewish rioting in Alsace, Ennery was elected representative for the department of the Lower Rhine, and sat among the members of the "Mountain." He devoted his attention principally to scholastic questions. After the coup d'état he resisted the new order of things, and was exiled for life in 1852. He retired to Brussels, where he lived as a teacher until his death.
For a brief overview of the Gratz-Etting family around the time of publication, see https://archives.cjh.org/agents/families/13583.
OCLC: 39900030. OCLC and Singerman together list only 6 of these complete sets worldwide including this copy [NYPL, JTSA, HUC, AJHS, Gratz (this copy), American Antiquarian]. Gratz College bookplate and stamps to blank endpapers and title page margin. Spine rebacked, front inside hinge repaired, Good Condition. (AMR-57-9AB-'d).

Price: $1,000.00