Seventh edition. Printed in black letter in two columns. 529,[3]pp. Eighteenth century manuscript register of the Shrank family. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, lacks hinges and clasps. Provenance: General Theological Seminary (blindstamps and other markings). Evans 13837; ESTC W4523; Hildeburn 3245; Bötte 454.

Item #376212

German translation of the New Testament published in Pennyslvania by Christopher Saur II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the first German Bible in America, in 1743. This is one of the earliest small-format German-language Bibles, published just a year before Saur's famous "Gunwad" Bible of 1776.

Variant A correctly identified as "Siebente Auflage" on title page.