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BIBLIA DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHER. . .

Christopher Saur: Germantown, PA, 1763. Item #97-2150

10.5 x 8, full calf over wooden boards with five raised bands, 992; 227 pp, binding somewhat rubbed, spine top chippping, piece of leather missing from top of front cover, clasps missing, some staining to prelims and first few pp, pp 109-248 of New Testament loosening, pp toned, usual wear to page edges. Printed by the son of the original Christopher Saur, who printed the first foreign language Bible in America (1743), this too is an important, early American printing. See Seidensticker (p61), Evans 9343, Sabin 5192.

Price: $5,500.00