Biblia : das ist, Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers, mit jedes Capitels kurtzen Summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen Parallelen ; nebst dem gewöhnlichen Anhang des dritten und vierten Buchs Esrä und des dritten Buchs der Maccabäer.

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TextLanguage: German Original language: hebgrc Publication details: Germantown : Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur, 1743.Description: 2 v. in 1 (v.[1]: [4], 995, [1] p.; v.[2]: 277, [7] p.) ; 27 cm. (4to)Other title:

Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments

General note: "The earliest Bible in a European language printed in America. Luther's version. A reprint of the Halle Bible (34th edition), with the books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible ..."--Darlow;
"Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi..." has separate t.p;
Printed in two columns;
T.p. in red and black;
Signatures: v. [1]: pi2 A-6I4 6K2 (pi1v, 6K2v blank); v. [2]: A-2L4 2M6.Citations: Seidensticker, O. German printing, p. 20;
Evans, 5127, 5128;
Sabin, 5191;
Hildeburn, C.R. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 804;
Wright, J. Early Bibles of America, 28-50, 163, plate [3];
Darlow, T.H., Hist. cat. of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the library of the Brit. and Foreign Bible Society, 4240;
Rumball-Petre, E.A.R., America's first Bibles, 14-37;
O'Callaghan, E.B. A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures, 22-23.Local Notes: Saur Sauer Sower Bible;
LIBRARY COPY CONTAINS HAND-WRITTEN NOTE TIPPED IN AT FRONT, CONCERNING FORMER OWNERSHIP BY ALTEMUS FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ABRAHAM HARLEY CASSEL, FROM WHOM THE BIBLE WAS PURCHASED.Provenance: Cassel, Abraham Harley, 1820-1908, former owner.Printer/Publisher: Sower, Christopher, 1695-1758, printer.
Imprint: Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1743.
Pennsylvania. Germantown. 1743.Uniform titles:

Bible. German. Luther. 1743.

Subject(s):

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1743

Genre/Form:

German-American imprints -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1743.

LOC classification:

BS239 1743

Citation/References note :

Seidensticker, O. German printing,
Evans,
Sabin,
Hildeburn, C.R. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania,
Wright, J. Early Bibles of America,
Darlow, T.H., Hist. cat. of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the library of the Brit. and Foreign Bible Society,
Rumball-Petre, E.A.R., America's first Bibles,
O'Callaghan, E.B. A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures,

List(s) this item appears in: Christoph Saur/Sower

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"The earliest Bible in a European language printed in America. Luther's version. A reprint of the Halle Bible (34th edition), with the books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible ..."--Darlow.

"Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi..." has separate t.p.

Printed in two columns.

T.p. in red and black.

Signatures: v. [1]: pi2 A-6I4 6K2 (pi1v, 6K2v blank); v. [2]: A-2L4 2M6.

Saur Sauer Sower Bible

Seidensticker, O. German printing, p. 20

Evans, 5127, 5128

Sabin, 5191

Hildeburn, C.R. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 804

Wright, J. Early Bibles of America, 28-50, 163, plate [3]

Darlow, T.H., Hist. cat. of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the library of the Brit. and Foreign Bible Society, 4240

Rumball-Petre, E.A.R., America's first Bibles, 14-37

O'Callaghan, E.B. A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures, 22-23

LIBRARY COPY CONTAINS HAND-WRITTEN NOTE TIPPED IN AT FRONT, CONCERNING FORMER OWNERSHIP BY ALTEMUS FAMILY, WRITTEN BY ABRAHAM HARLEY CASSEL, FROM WHOM THE BIBLE WAS PURCHASED.