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[BIBLE, in Algonkian]. –– [ELIOT, John (1604–1690)]. The First American Bible: A Leaf from a Copy of the Bible Translated into the Indian Language by John Eliot and Printed at Cambridge in New England in the Year 1663. Boston: D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press for Charles E. Goodspeed and Company, 1929.
Small 8vo. With an original leaf of the 1663 Eliot Indian Bible (Book of Amos, Chapter I and II) in the Algonkian language. Original publisher’s gilt–decorated dark brown cloth, top edge gilt; original glassine (some edge chipping).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 157 copies. Includes George Parker Winship’s account of the translator and printing history of the first complete Bible printed in America.