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Lot 21
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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Live / Chicago
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[BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Covenant, commonly called the Old and New Testament: Translated from the Greek [by Charles Thomson]. Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1808.
4 volumes, 8vo (216 x 126 mm). General title and volume titles to each volume. (Title-pages soiled, general titles to vols. III and IV with tape repairs, some minor browning or spotting.) Modern calf gilt; cloth slipcase.
First edition of the first translation of the ancient Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) into English. The 1808 Jane Aitken Bible has the dual distinction of being the first English translation of the Septuagint and the first printing by a woman of any part of the Holy Scriptures in America. (See previous lot.) Hills 153; Darlow & Moule 1005; Herbert 1514; Rumball-Petre 184; O'Callaghan 1808.2; Wright, p. 113.
Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.