Second edition of the first non-Native-American Bible to be published in America

Biblia, das ist: die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers...

Germantown: gedruckt bey Christopher Saur, 1763. Thick 4to, 2 parts in 1 (O.T. and N.T.); pp. [4], 992; 277, [3]; collating π1-2, A-6H4, 6I6; A-2M4; text in double column; moderate toning and foxing throughout, and a bit of occasional waterstaining, several leaves with marginal tears, A3 with small loss to lower outer corner affecting the ends of 3 lines recto and verso, 4S1 with 2 minute paper flaws affecting a couple of letters, 6D2 with clean tear entering from fore-margin (no loss), 2M4 in the N.T. also with 2 minute paper flaws affecting a letter or two; full contemporary calf, unadorned spine in 6 compartments; a very nice, unrestored copy, lacking the original clasps. The first Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere was Eliot's Indian Bible of 1663. The first Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere in a European language was Christopher Saur's German Bible, published in 1743 - this being the second edition of it. It was reprinted again in 1776. "On Saur's death in 1758 he was succeeded by his only son who bore the same name. Christoph Saur the younger enlarged the business and in 1763 issued a second quarto edition (2000 copies) of the Bible" (Darlow & Moule). Wright, Early Bibles of America, pp. 44-51; Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 9343; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1877; Bötte & Tannhof 269; O'Callaghan, p. 25; Sabin 5192. Item #59326

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