Biblia, Das ist : Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments / nach der teutschen Uebersetzung d. Martin Luthers, mit jedes Capitels kurtzen Summarien, auch..

Germantown PA: Christopher Sower [Christoph Saur], 1763. Second edition. Leather Bound. pp. 992; 277 [1]. Thick 4to. Contemporary calf over reverse-bevelled wooden panel, with plain spine showing 5 prominent raised bands, and remains of clasps to foredge. Old leather band attached across spine head, presumably for reinforcement. Copious (family history) notes to front pastedown, some tide marks, closed tears, and the like throughout; p. 173 of NT shows corner torn off and laid in, last page tattered and only laid-in with some loss to edges; binding remarkably sound, text complete but end-matter and front free endpaper missing. Second edition of the earliest bible in a European language to be printed in America. Text printed in double columns in Gothic font. Family correspondance and photo laid in. Darlow & Moule 4240: "On Saur's death in 1758 he was succeeded by his only won, who bore the same name. Christoph Saur the younger enlarged the business, and in 1763 issued a second quarto edition (2000 copies) of the Bible. In 1776 he had just completed a third edition (3000 copies) when the outbreak of the American War of Independence interrupted the work, and nearly the whole of the unbound sheets were used to make cartridges." Sabin 5192. OCLC 2996651.