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Biblia, das ist: die ganze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments
Nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung von doctor Martin Luther.
Mit lehrreichen Vorreden, und vielen nutzlichen und seltenen Registern versehen. Nebst dem dritten Buch der Maccabaer, und Zugabe des dritten and vierten Buchs Esra.
Imgleichen: Eine kurz gefasste Biblische Geschichte und Lebenbeschreibung Doctor Martin Luthers.
FIRST FOLIO PRINTED GERMAN BIBLE IN AMERICA
LANCASTER, PA: JOHANN BAR ; 1819
Size 15.5 x 10.5 x 4.5
The previous German-American Bibles were all smaller, quarto Bibles that had been printed by the Saur family in Germantown, near Philadelphia, (1743, 1763, and 1776), by Gottlob Jungmann in Reading (1805) and by Friedrich Goeb in Somerset (1813).
In 1819, the young 23-year-old Johann Bar (John Baer, or John Bear) of Lancaster County's printed this substantial work which was the largest German-language Bible printed in America to that date.
Despite the numerous subscribers listed on five preliminary pages in four-column format, he was nearly bankrupted by the enterprise.
Original glossed leather over wooden boards with aggressively thick raised bands to spine, reverse beveled edges, lacks straps/clasps.
Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispiece plates by John Henry.
Both boards are detached, first frontis also detached, with repaired tears.
Title page is frayed , first about 20 pages with faded dampstain at the lower margin, last about 70 pages and back cover are also dampstained
some foxing
Text in German
Reserve: $550.00
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1819 BIBLE 1st Folio Ed PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN Lancaster PA JOHANN BAR antique RARE
Estimate $700-$800
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