(BIBLE IN GERMAN) Biblia Das ist Die Heilige Schrift Altes u

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(BIBLE IN GERMAN.) Biblia, Das ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments. [1], 9-995, 277, [9] pages. 4to, contemporary calf, lacking one clasp, recased; general title page quite worn and laid down, preface/contents leaf quite worn and misbound near the rear of the volume, lacking first four leaves of Genesis (pages 1-8) and front and rear endpapers, lacking half of New Testament leaf E1 and all of Ii3 and 4, general edge wear, finger soiling, foxing and toning, moderate dampstaining; title page in red and black. In modern cloth slipcase. Germantown, PA: Christoph Saur, 1743

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The first european-language bible printed in america. The preface explains that the publication was undertaken because "so many poor Germans come to the country who do not all bring Bibles . . . the well-to-do usually care for themselves and theirs." Saur later announced that the price for a bound copy was 18 shillings, "but to the poor and needy we have no price" (see Wright, Early Bibles of America, pages 32 and 43). Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 5128 (calls this the second impression with altered title pages).