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Author: Zinman, Michael
Title: The American Bible. Original Leaves from Rare and Historic Bibles Printed in the Colonies and the United States of America During the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries...
Place Published: Ardsley, NY
Publisher:The Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts
Date Published: 1993
Description:

4 volumes. Volume I comprises: [13 text leaves], 8 leaves tipped into mats; Volumes II-IV each comprise: [6 text leaves], 10 leaves tipped into mats. Preface by Michael Zinman. Essay by Mark. A. Noll. Designed and produced under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press. 56x35.5 cm (22x14"), leaves loose in four clamshell cases, as issued. No. 23 of 100. First Edition. Portfolios titled:

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  Portfolio I, Original Leaves from the Bible in Indigenous Languages


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  Portfolio II, Original Leaves from the bible in English from the Eighteenth Century


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  Portfolio III, Original Leaves from the Bible in English from the Nineteenth Century


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  Portfolio IV, Original Leaves from the Bible in Other Languages

This important historical record is split into four portfolios by date or by theme, covering two centuries and over a dozen indigenous and immigrant languages of North America. The languages included comprise those of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Dakota, and Hawaiians, as well as Bibles in German, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, Swedish, and more, including the first American Bible printed for the blind. The first folio includes leaves from the 1663 Eliot Bible in the indigenous language sometimes referred to as Massachusett, the first Bible in any language printed in America. This history of the translation of scripture into indigenous languages, meant to produce converts, also produced an invaluable record of indigenous languages in print, supplementing existing cultural knowledge and language conservation efforts in the Americas.

Illustrated with tipped-in Bible leaves, comprising leaves from:

Portfolio I:

1. 
   Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament Kah Wonk Wusku Testament. Cambridge: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663. The Eliot Indian Bible, first Bible printed in America.


2. 
   Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament Kah Wonk Wusku Testament. Cambridge: Samuel Green, 1685. Second edition of Eliot Bible, in Massachusett [Wôpanâak].


3. 
   Kekitchemanitomenahn Gahbemahjeinnunk Jesus Christ. Albany: Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1833. New Testament in Chippewa [Ojibwa, Anishinaabemowin].


4. 
   Ne Raorihwadogenhti Ne Shongwayaner Yesus Keristus. New York: Young Men's Bible Society of New York, 1836. Gospels of Matthew and John, in Mohawk [Kanien?kéha].


5. 
   Ka Palapala Hemolele A Iehova Ko Kakou Akua. Oahu: American Bible Society, 1838. The Bible in Hawaiian.


6. 
   Genesis Or The First Book of Moses. Park Hill: Mission Press, 1856. Genesis, in Cherokee [Tsalagi].


7. 
   Dakota Wowapi Wakan Kin. New York: American Bible Society, 1865. New Testament in Dakota.


8. 
   The Books of Genesis, Exodus, Levitucus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Translated Into the Choctaw Language. New York: American Bible Society, 1867. The Pentateuch, in Choctaw.

Portfolio II:

1. 
   The Holy Bible. Philadelphia: Robert Aiken, 1782. First Bible in English printed in America


2. 
   A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. First Bible for children printed in America.


3. 
   The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1790. First Catholic Bible printed in America.


4. 
   The Holy Bible. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. First illustrated Bible in America.


5. 
   The Holy Bible. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. The second illustrated Bible in America.


6. 
   The Holy Bible. Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1791. First Bible printed in New Jersey.


7. 
   The Self-Interpreting Bible. New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1792. First Bible printed in New York.


8. 
   The Holy Bible. Philadelphia: Berriman & Co., 1796. The Berriman folio Bible modelled on that of Isaiah Thomas.


9. 
   The Holy Bible. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1797. The United States of Columbia Bible, the "Standing Edition".


10. 
    The Holy Bible. Philadelphia: John Thompson and Abraham Small, 1798. The first hot-press Bible printed in America.

Portfolio III:

1. 
   The Holy Bible. Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1808. First translation of the Septuagint Bible into English.


2. 
   The Pronouncing Bible. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1825. First pronouncing Bible printed in America.


3. 
   The English Version of the Polyglott Bible. Philadelphia: Key & Meilke, 1831. First American edition of Bagster's polyglot Bible.


4. 
   The Holy Bible. New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1833. Noah Webster's modernized Bible.


5. 
   The New Testament... Andover: Gould & Newman, 1837. First American edition of Tyndale's Bible.


6. 
   The Holy Bible. New York: American Bible Society, 1842. First Bible printed in America for the blind.


7. 
   The Illuminated Bible. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. The "most lavishly illustrated" American Bible.


8. 
   ΔΕ NW TESTAMENT OV ΦR LORD... Philadelphia: A. Comstock, M.D., 1848. The 'fonetik' New Testament.


9. 
   The New Testament... Augusta: Confederate States Bible Society, 1862. First New Testament published in Georgia.


10. 
    The Holy Bible. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First Bible translated by a woman.

Portfolio IV:

1. 
   Biblia, Das Ist. Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1743. First Bible in German printed in America.


2. 
   Biblia, Das Ist. Germantown: Cristoph Saur, 1763. Second Saur edition of the German Bible.


3. 
   Biblia, Das Ist. Germantown: Cristoph Saur, 1776. Third Saur edition.


4. 
   ΗΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Junior, 1800. First New Testament in Greek printed in America.


5. 
   ???? ?????? ??????? Biblia Hebraica. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1814. First Bible in Hebrew printed in America.


6. 
   La Sainte Bible. New York: New York Bible Society, 1815. First Bible in French printed in America.


7. 
   La Biblia Sagrada. New York: American Bible Society, 1824. First Bible in Spanish printed in America.


8. 
   O Novo Testamento... New York: American Bible Society, 1839. First New Testament in Portuguese printed in America.


9. 
   Het Niewe Testament. New York: American Bible Society, 1849. First New Testament in Dutch printed in America.


10. 
    Det Nya Testamentet. New York: American Bible Society, 1850. First New Testament in Swedish printed in America.

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Light shelfwear and foxing to clamshell cases; bible leaves with expected toning, occasional foxing and soiling, altogether near fine.