Biblia: das ist die ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung Martin Luthers

Biblia: das ist die ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung Martin Luthers

Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi

Dritte Auflage.

Germantown, [Pa.] : Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1776.

German

[4], 992, 277, [3] pages ; 27 cm (4to)

L2015F60 1776

(OCoLC)02858725

Third edition of the Saur Bible and the first Bible printed in America from type cast in America.
Preface signed: Chr. Saur.
Includes the Old Testament Apocrypha; New Testament has separate title page and pagination.
Includes registers of Epistles and Gospels on pages [278]-[280] at end.
Text in double columns.
Signatures: π² A-6I⁴ ²A-2M⁴.
Page 198 in the first sequence misnumbered 189; page 162 in the second sequence misnumbered 192.
Reportedly printed in an edition of 3,000 copies; commonly known as the “Gun-Wad Bible” from later accounts that unbound sheets were used by British troops during the occupation of Germantown.
Library copy bound in calf over wooden boards with metal clasps; spine rebacked; with manuscript annotations and German-language newspaper clippings pasted to the front pastedown.

Evans 14663
ESTC W18549
Sabin 5194

Inscribed on the rear free endpaper: "Friedk. Limbach, June 17th, 1777" and "Learn sincerely love god and thy Neighbors until the End."

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