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    <title>Biblia, das ist, die ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments</title>
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    <title>Heilige Schrift</title>
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    <title>Bible. German. 1776</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Luther, Martin</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1483-1546</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sower, Christopher</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1754-1799</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">printer.</roleTerm>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Zinman, Michael</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">former owner.</roleTerm>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Bible Collection (Library of Congress)</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">pau</placeTerm>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Germantown [Pa.]</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1776</dateIssued>
    <edition>Dritte Auflage.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ger</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>2 v. in 1. ([4], 992, 277, [3] p.) ; 25 x 19 cm. (4to)</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers ; mit jedes Capitels kurzen Summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen Parallelen ; Nebst einem Anhang des dritten und vierten Buchs Esrä, und des dritten Buchs der Maccabäer.</note>
  <note>Preface signed: Chr. Saur.</note>
  <note>Printed in two columns.</note>
  <note>"Das Neue Testament" has separate title page. Title page reads: "Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers, mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels, und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schrift-Stellen. Wie auch aller Sonn- und Fest-tägigen Evangelien und Episteln. Dritte Auflage. Germantown, Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1776."</note>
  <note>"Register der Episteln und Evangelien, welche gelesen wereden am Sonntagen und namhaften Festen durchs ganze Jahr": p. [1]-[2] at end.</note>
  <note>"Register. Episteln und Evangelien der Aposteltage, welche an einigen Orten gefeiret werden": p. [3] at end.</note>
  <note>Signatures: pi² A-6I⁴; A-2M⁴.</note>
  <note>Errors in paging: p. 198 of Old Testament misnumbered 189; p. 162 of New Testament misnumbered 192.</note>
  <note>"An edition of 3000 copies was printed. For an account of the history of this edition, said to have been for the most part destroyed during the Revolution, see: Rumball-Petre, Edwin A.R. America's first Bibles, Portland, Me., 1940"--ESTC.</note>
  <note>In some copies, the title page is printed in red and black.</note>
  <note>"The so-called 'Gun Cotton Bible'"--Bookseller's description.</note>
  <note>LC copy title page printed in black only. Edges trimmed. Marbled fore-edges. Handwritten notes on fly leaves at end "Register of births and deaths of the Yost family" which records birth and death dates of eight Yost family members between 1765-1864.</note>
  <note>Printed in German with black letter script.</note>
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      <country>United States</country>
      <state>Pennsylvania</state>
      <city>Philadelphia</city>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS239 1776</classification>
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    <note>Evans 14663</note>
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  <relatedItem type="isReferencedBy">
    <note>Bötte &amp; Tannhoff. German printing, 475</note>
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  <relatedItem type="isReferencedBy">
    <note>ESTC W18549</note>
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