Sale 2432 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, November 17, 2016

56 ● (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. 2 maps, 16 plates, and one engraved table. [844] pages. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached, owner IsaacVredenburgh’s gilt nameplate on backstrip; lacking free endpapers, intermittent foxing and toning, minor wear to last few leaves. Laid in are 3 leaves of family records of Isaac Vredenburgh (1741-1831) of New Jersey and his children, dated 1767-1858. Philadelphia: Berriman & Co., 1796 [800/1,200] “Valued by collectors, as its illustrations give excellent examples of the work done by several American engravers of that time”—Wright page 325.Among the engravers represented are Alexander Anderson (two maps of the Holy Land, and a view of Solomon’s Temple) and Amos Doolittle (Triumph of David, and Judas Maccabeus defeating the Samarian army). Evans 30065; Hills 53.While several copies have appeared at auction, this is the only one we have traced with a complete complement of plates and text leaves. 57 ● (BIBLE IN GERMAN.) Biblia, das ist: Die heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments. [4], 992, 277, [3] pages. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, lacking clasps; lacking front free endpaper, extensive repairs to first 6 and final 4 leaves (mostly to margins), otherwise just moderate dampstaining; inked library number stamp on verso of title page, John Howell tag on rear pastedown. Germantown, PA: Christoph Saur, 1763 [800/1,200] The third Bible printed in America, after Eliot’s 1661 Indian Bible and the elder Saur’s 1743 first edition. Saur boasts in the introduction that “no other nation can claim to have printed the Bible, in this part of the world, in its own language.” Only 2000 copies were printed. Evans 9343;Wright, pages 44-46. 56