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by Saur.
- a 4th ed (1805) 4^0 was published by Gottleb Youngmann
in Reading, Pa - much like Sauer's in typography +
general appearance

Christoph Saur I - born Germany 1693 - arrived in
America in 1724 - died 9/25/1758, at age 65,
Christoph Saur II succeeded his father, the founder
when he died.

R. Petre #159 1743 Bible. 4^0, Luther's version. 1st Germantown Bible -
the earliest Bible in a European language printed in America
Copy: HEHL -about 150 copies known to be in existence {1200 printed on [inserted] Long primer. type [end inserted]
995 pages in O.T. + Apocrypha; 227 in N.T.
sig letters to O.T. are in German to N.T. in Roman characters.
Bound in beveled boards, it was covered with strong leather.
Clasps held the cover together. The text was printed
in double col. with parallel references, short summaries
heading every chapter + 2 ornamental headpieces,
one for Genesis + the other for St. Matthew. The title
page was printed in red + black. Sower asked
18 schillings or about $2.50 for his work. He sent 12
copies to his benefactor Dr. Heinrich Ehrenfried Luther
had supplied the type font - (type found in Frankfurt - am Maur) Unfortunately
the ship that carried them was captured by Spanish
pirates off St. Malo. THe Spaniards made an ecumenical
gesture by seeing that Luther got his Bibles at last
2 yrs later.

1763 heading page # 1743 heading page #
at Stanford, leaf, Ege collection - "Mose p. 195"
It is thought that at least a portion of the paper
used for the 1743 Bible was made in the mill conducted
by the 7th Day Baptist brotherhood at Ephrata, [inserted] (on the banks of Cocalico Creek) [end inserted] Lancaster
Country, Pennsylvania, est. about 1736. The principal product
of the mill was a coarse brown paper called "macalatur."