[Americana] [Sauer, Christoph] ["Gun-Wad" Bible] Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Gottliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen U

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Books and Manuscripts

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Feb 17, 2022

Set Reminder 2022-02-17 10:00:00 2022-02-17 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Books and Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/freemans/books-and-manuscripts-8807 Freeman’s February 17 Books and Manuscripts auction is an Americana collector’s delight, with highlights led by an extremely rare Northwest Territory Land Ordinance from 1785. Curated by Darren WInston, Head of the Books and Manuscripts Department at Freeman's. Freeman's info@freemansauction.com

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[Americana] [Sauer, Christoph] ["Gun-Wad" Bible] Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Gottliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers...
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. Third edition; one of only 3,000 copies printed. Two volumes in one. 4to. (ii), 992; 277, (3) pp.; lacking blank leaf at front. Gothic type; printed in two columns. Contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, boards rubbed and moderately worn, clasps perished, spine ends worn; all edges trimmed; pencil scrawl on front paste-down; title-page edges worn; scattered spotting to text; scattered light to moderate dampstaining in edges and in gutter; top edge repaired, pp. 477/478; loss at bottom corner, affecting some text, pp. 555-58; two-inch closed tear in top corner, pp. 771/772; open tear, affecting a few letters, pp. 877/878. Sabin 5194; Evans 14663

Scarce third edition of the first European language bible printed in America, and the first Bible printed from American-manufactured type. Famously known as the "gun-wad" bible, as its pages were used as cartridge paper and horse bedding by invading British troops during the battle of Germantown in the American Revolution. Due to this, most copies of this bible were destroyed, and it is estimated that around only 200 copies still exist. The first edition was printed by Chistopher Saur, Sr., in 1743, and the second by Saur, Jr.--the printer of this volume--in 1763.

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