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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part42.utf8:279959626:3255
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 03255cam a2200445 a 4500
001 g 01000172
003 DLC
005 20120925085910.0
008 810612s1776 pau 000 0 ger
010 $ag 01000172
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$edcrmb
050 00 $aBS239 1776
051 $aBS239 1776 Copy 2$cTitle page printed in black only. Variant: New Testament p. 162 numbered correctly. Formerly owned by Michael Zinman with his book label on front paste down. Leather binding, raised bands on spine with two brass clasps.
130 0 $aBible.$lGerman.$sLuther.$f1776.
245 10 $aBiblia, das ist, die ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments /$cnach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers ; mit jedes Capitels kurzen Summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen Parallelen ; Nebst einem Anhang des dritten und vierten Buchs Esrä, und des dritten Buchs der Maccabäer.
246 18 $aHeilige Schrift.$5DLC
250 $aDritte Auflage.
260 $aGermantown [Pa.] :$bGedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur,$c1776.
300 $a2 v. in 1. ([4], 992, 277, [3] p.) ;$c25 x 19 cm. (4to)
546 $aPrinted in German with black letter script.
500 $aPreface signed: Chr. Saur.
500 $aPrinted in two columns.
500 $a"Das Neue Testament" has separate title page. Title page reads: "Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers, mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels, und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schrift-Stellen. Wie auch aller Sonn- und Fest-tägigen Evangelien und Episteln. Dritte Auflage. Germantown, Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1776."
500 $a"Register der Episteln und Evangelien, welche gelesen wereden am Sonntagen und namhaften Festen durchs ganze Jahr": p. [1]-[2] at end.
500 $a"Register. Episteln und Evangelien der Aposteltage, welche an einigen Orten gefeiret werden": p. [3] at end.
500 $aSignatures: pi² A-6I⁴; A-2M⁴.
500 $aErrors in paging: p. 198 of Old Testament misnumbered 189; p. 162 of New Testament misnumbered 192.
500 $a"An edition of 3000 copies was printed. For an account of the history of this edition, said to have been for the most part destroyed during the Revolution, see: Rumball-Petre, Edwin A.R. America's first Bibles, Portland, Me., 1940"--ESTC.
500 $aIn some copies, the title page is printed in red and black.
500 $a"The so-called 'Gun Cotton Bible'"--Bookseller's description.
510 4 $aEvans$c14663
510 4 $aBötte & Tannhoff. German printing,$c475
510 4 $aESTC$cW18549
500 $aLC copy title page printed in black only. Edges trimmed. Marbled fore-edges. Handwritten notes on fly leaves at end "Register of births and deaths of the Yost family" which records birth and death dates of eight Yost family members between 1765-1864.$5DLC
600 30 $3DLC copy 1:$aYost family.
700 1 $aLuther, Martin,$d1483-1546.
700 1 $aSower, Christopher,$d1754-1799,$eprinter.
700 1 $aZinman, Michael,$eformer owner.$5DLC
710 2 $aBible Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aUnited States$bPennsylvania$dPhiladelphia$fGermantown.