[Aitken, Jane] Thomson, Charles (translator). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Covenant, Commonly Called the Old and New Testament: Translated From the Greek
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1808. In four volumes. 8vo. Each volume with general title-page and volume title-page. Full modern black goatskin, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; blindstamp in lower corner of each title-page and intermittently throughout text; library notations along gutter and lower edge of first page of text in each volume; spotting to text; scattered light wear in lower gutter in each volume. Hills 153; Darlow & Moule 1005; Herbert 1514; O'Callaghan 1808.2; Wright, p. 113
The first English translation of the Septuagint and the first printing by a woman of any part of the Bible in America. A handsome set.
Property of a Main Line Gentleman, Pennsylvania
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