Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN GERMAN.) Biblia, das ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, front joint split, original clasps detached but present; lacking front free endpaper, moderate foxing and toning. Germantown, PA: Christoph Saur, 1763

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The third Bible printed in America, after Eliot's 1661 Indian Bible and the elder Saur's 1743 first edition. Saur boasts in the introduction that "no other nation can claim to have printed the Bible, in this part of the world, in its own language." Only 2000 copies were printed. Evans 9343; Wright, pages 44-46.