BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS KURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELE

by [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]:

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First edition

Germantown: Christoph Saur,, 1763.. The Second Saur Bible and the First Bible Printed on American Paper The second edition of the first European-language Bible printed in America, after the first of 1743, and the first Bible printed on paper made in America. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible, with Book Three of Edras, Book Four of Edras, and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. The present edition, supposedly issued in 2000 copies, was printed by Christopher Saur II, son of Christopher Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania, working variously as a tailor, clockmaker, and healer before finally turning to printing and publishing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. When his father died in 1758, the younger Saur, who up until then had overseen the bindery and all English-language publications, inherited the business. Under his ownership, the business continued to thrive and expand, making him "one of the wealthiest men in British America" before seeing his fortunes reversed during the American Revolution (ANB). A member of the German Baptist Brethren, or Dunkards as they were popularly known, the younger Saur would publish a second (the present 1763 edition) and third (1776, the so-called "Gun-wad Bible") edition of his father's German Bible, and in 1773 he would build a paper mill on the Schuylkill River. Next to the

• Year: 1763
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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