Sold for:
$8,610
$8,610
Winship, George Parker (1871-1952) The First American Bible , Four Leaves from the Eliot Indian Bible. Boston: by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press for Charles Goodspeed & Co., 1929. One of 157 copies printed, normally containing one leaf only, this copy contains four leaves from the first edition of the Bible, printed in Cambridge in 1663, with Winship's essay, in publisher's dark brown cloth, tooled in gold, consisting of the first and second leaves of the book of John, Aa1 and Aa2, and two leaves from chapters nine and ten from Judges, Hh2 and Hh3; 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
