The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
September 8 - December 12, 2009
First American Edition of a European Bible Translation
Biblia das ist: Die Heilige Schrift. Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1743.
The Lutheran German Bible printed by Christoph Saur I (1693–1758) in 1743 was the first European-language Bible published in the Americas. The second edition, printed by his son Christoph Saur II (1721–1784) in 1763, was the first Bible printed on American-made paper. The third Saur Bible, printed in 1776, was the first Bible printed with American-made type, which was manufactured at the Saur type foundry in Germantown.