ANTIQUARIAN BIBLES 
IV:
MODERN LANGUAGES NOT ENGLISH OR AMERIND
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Bible.
German. 1829–34?
Luther. Biblia, das ist: Die
ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung
D. Martin Luthers.... Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, [ca. 1829–34?].
4to (28.5 cm, 11.125"). Frontis., 975 pp.; 39 plts.; [2] ff. “Familien=Register”
inserted between pp. 754 & [755]. 
Binding: Contemporary treed calf with clusters of small bosses in center and at corners of covers; red leather label on spine, gilt-filletted and -rolled above and below and gilt-lettered; remnants of clasps on edges of covers. All edges saffron.
Provenance: Rubber-stamp of Lee D. Snyder on front pastedown, verso of title-leaf, and reverse of many plates.
• Cf. O’Callaghan 181; not in Darlow & Moule. Binding as above with some scratches; joints and edges rubbed. Small holes or chips out of a few pages with loss of individual letters, not affecting sense. Small hole in printed area of plate facing p. 119. Foxed with some soiling on the sectional title-page of the New Testament and a few darker spots elsewhere. A good, solid, satisfying copy.
Revised
First Marathi
N.T. — First
American Press in India
Bible. N.T. Marathi. Hall et al. 1836. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated from the original Greek into Maráthí. [Bombay]: The Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society (pr. at the American Mission Press), 1836. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [662] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. holdings, one of which has been deaccessioned.
• Darlow & Moule 6673; Book of a Thousand Tongues (2nd ed.) 818 (for 1830 ed.). Contemporary half sheep with marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title; rubbed, scuffed, and faded, spine with small area of discoloration from now-absent shelving label. Front cover slightly sprung, front hinge (inside) strongly reinforced some time ago with cloth tape. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate and rubber-stamp, title-page verso also stamped; front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; rear pastedown and free endpaper with light pencilled annotations. Pages age-toned, with scattered spots of light foxing; some corners dog-eared; one leaf with small hole with loss of a few letters. Occasional inked and pencilled annotations (in Marathi). (25144)
In
a GOOD
AMERICAN
Binding — SarahBible.
French. 1839–40. Martin. La Sainte Bible...revue...par David Martin....
New York: Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees, pour la Société
Biblique Americaine, D. Fanshaw, Imprimeur, 1839–40. 8vo. 819 [1 (blank)] pp.,
261, [1 (blank)] pp.
The name "Sarah B. Leverett" is lettered in gilt on the front cover, and the same name is given in precise gothic calligraphy on the front free endpaper.This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available, for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.
• Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above, corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto, dulling outermost elements of gilt border (only) on front cover, just at those corners. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages (only). The whole very attractive and well preserved.
Uncommon Edition of
Martyn's Landmark Translation Bible. N.T. Persian. 1841. Martyn. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated from the original Greek into Persian, at Sheeraz.... Calcutta: Pr. at the Baptist Mission Press for the American & Foreign Bible Society, 1841. 8vo (24.2 cm, 9.5"). [4], 584 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Scarce. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only one U.S. holding of this edition.
• Darlow & Moule 7340; Book of a Thousand Tongues (2nd ed.) 1047 (for first ed.). Publisher's blue textured cloth, spine with printed paper label; boards and spine sunned (spine more so), with cloth cracked at joints and rubbed at extremities, spine label chipped and faded, spine with small area of discoloration and inked shelving number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplates. Two leaves towards front and last two leaves each with inner margins reinforced some time ago. Pages slightly age-toned, with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis and marginalia in both English and Farsi. (25151)
Calcutta
Baptist
Mission
Press
Bible.
O.T. Psalms. Bengali. 1844.; Bible. O.T. Proverbs. Bengali. 1844.
[four lines in Bengali, then] The Psalms of David and the Proverbs
of Solomon in Bengálí. Calcutta: Pr. for the Bible Translation
Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press,
1844. 12mo (16.3 cm; 6.5"). 178, 53, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's purple cloth with faded printed paper spine label. Ex-library: call number on spine, bookplate removed, pencilled notations, rubber-stamps. Withal, a clean crisp copy. (21736)
An
ABS Offering in
Portuguese
Bible.
N.T. Portuguese. 1848. Alameida.
O Novo Testamento de nosso senhor e redemptor Jesu Christo, traduzido em Portuguez
pelo Padre Joao Ferreira A. D'Alameida, ministro pregador do santo evangelho
em Batavia. Reimpreso da edicao de 1693, revista e emendada. Nova York: Sociedade
Americana da Biblia, 1848. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.625"). 283, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking
pp. 267–68). 
Provenance: Late-20th-century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown.
• Not in Darlow & Moule; not in O'Callaghan. Contemporary speckled sheep; spine with double gilt rules and a black leather title label, gilt-lettered. Rubbed, label chipped at edges, front joint opening at top. Scattered foxing; one leaf lacking, in the Apocalypse of St. John. All edges speckled brown.
A
Scarce Testament
in a
Pacific
Language
Bible.
N.T. Maori. 1852.
Ko te Kawenata Hou o to tatou ariki te kai whakaora a Ihu Karaiti.... [Tr. by
W. Yate]. Ranana: He mea to ite perehi o T.R. Harihona.... [i.e., London: Pr.
by T.R. Harrison...], 1852. 12mo. [2] ff., 371 pp.
• Darlow & Moule 6650. Recent quarter tan calf with marbled paper sides. Rodent has nibbled on the upper outer corner of the first 15 leaves with some loss of paper and of a very few page numbers; no text affected. A clean copy.
Scripture Selections — TAMILBible. Selections. Tamil. 1865. A selection of scripture texts. Madras: Religious Tract and Book Society, printed at the American Mission Press, 1865. 12mo (13.5 cm; 5.5"). 36 pp.
• Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15152)
“Oh,
Wha’ll
Gie Me
Wings
like the Doo?”Bible. O.T. Psalms. Scots. Waddell. 1871. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew intil Scottis. Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co.; Glasgow: T. & J. Lochhead and Wm. Love, 1871. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [2], 2, 105, [1] pp.; illus.
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• Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded along edges and spine. Front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Pages faintly age-toned; in fact, a very clean nice copy.
TheFamous September Testament — Well Evoked! Bible. N.T. German. (1522) 1883. Luther. Die Septemberbibel: Das Neue Testament deutsch von Martin Luther. Berlin: G. Grote, 1883. Folio (32.4 cm, 12.75"). [4], 9, [9] pp., CVII, [6], LXXVII, [26] ff.; illus.
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21 full-page woodcuts by Lucas Cranach. Illustrating the Book of Revelation, the woodcuts appear here in their original state, before ordinary crowns took the place of the papal tiaras worn by the Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon.
• Binding as above, with light rubbing; front pastedown with Leipzig bookseller's small ticket. Occasional faint smudges; pages mostly clean. 
A handsome thing. (26301)
First Printing ofAny Portion of the Bible in This Language Bible. O.T. Genesis. Fang. 1894. La Genèse, premier livre de Moïse. Londres: Societé Biblique Britannique et Étrangè, 1894. 12mo (16 cm; 6.25"). Frontis. color map, 186 pp.
This is the first printing of any portion of the Bible in Fang (here Gabon-Fang). The translator was A.W. Marling of the American Presbyterian Mission.
Rare: We trace only two copies in U.S. libraries.
• North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 387. Publisher's black flexible leather (very black, not the charcoal that our photo seems to show!) stamped in blind and gold: chipped at edges and spine repaired. Now in a cloth clamshell case with a leather spine label. (25426)
The Gospels in a
Turkic Language Bible. N.T. Gospels. Yakut. 1898. [title-page in Cyrillic transliterated as] Gospoda nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie na iakutskom iazykie. Kazan: Tipo-lit. V.M. Kliuchnikova, 1898. 8vo (24 cm; 9.5"). 237, [1(blank) pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Uncommon: We find only one copy reported as held in a U.S. library.
• Darlow & Moule 9538. Publisher's red cloth stamped in blind and with one word in gilt on front cover. A very good copy. (25045)
Psalms
in Sangir
/ Sangihe
/ Sangirese:
Siau
Bible. O.T. Psalms. Sangir. Kelling et al. 1901. Buke u Masmur ko susi. London: British & Foreign Bible Society, 1901. 8vo (19.2 cm; 7.5"). 222 pp.
Sangir is an Austronesian language spoken inthe Philippines and Indonesia, especially in the Silawesi and Siau regions.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Uncommon: We locate only one copy in U.S. libraries.
• Darlow & Moule 7983. Publisher's red cloth. Very good copy. (25001)
For
Vanautu, Where They SpeakTOLOMAKO Bible. N.T. Acts. Tolomako. Yates et al. 1906. A translation into Santoese (St. Philip's Bay) of the Doings of the Apostles[:] ra vei hira Varisula. Melbourne: Melbourne Auxiliary, British & Foreign Bible Society (Arbuckle, Waddell &Fawckner, Printers), 1906. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 70 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The first translation of any portion of the Bible into Tolomako only occurred in 1904.
Given the small size of the Tolomako-speaking population, this must have been printed in an edition of 200 or fewer copies. We find only one copy in U.S. libraries.
• Darlow and Moule 8064; Dance, Oceanic scriptures, 573. Publisher's moiré-style dark green cloth, plain without lettering or labels. Front free endpaper excised with front hinge (inside) exposed; title-page with significant off-setting, therefore, from the binding. A good copy of a very scarce work. (25030)
A Language ofKazakhstan Bible. N.T. Gospels. Udmurt. 1912. [title-page in Cyrillic type transliterated as] Gospoda nashego Iisusa Khrista Sviatoe Evangelie ot” Matfeia, Marka, Luki i Ioanna na votskom” iazykie. Kazan: TSentral’naia tipografiia, 1912. 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). 327, [1 (blank)] pp.
Only one U.S. library reports owning a copy of this translation.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Darlow & Moule 9564 (for the 1904 printing). Publisher's quarter brown cloth with tan paper covers, stamped in blind. “Kazakhstan Russia” in ballpoint on the front free endpaper. A very good copy. (25046)
First Pentateuch in thisIsland Language Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. Pangasinan. 1912. Benitez. Saray simaran onaan á lebro'y Santa Biblia ya Genesis, Exodo, Levitico, Numero tan Deuteronomio. Manila: Sociedad Bíblica Británica y Extrangera, 1912. 12mo (18 cm; 7.25"). 541, [1 (blank) pp.
The first translation of any book of the Bible into Pangasinan did not come about until 1887, followed by the first Testament in 1908 and the first complete Bible in 1915. This is the first printing of the Pentateuch. It was translated by Eduardo Benitez assisted by Teodoro Basconcillo and A. Rayner, all of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. It has chapter headings and some footnotes.
Rare. Searches of NUC Pre-1956, COPAC, and OCLC locate no copies in U.S. libraries and only the B.F.B.S. copy at Cambridge.
• North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 346. Publisher's flexible black fabric over light boards, stamped in blind on front cover; expertly rebacked and remnants of original spine reapplied. Small “nick” to fore-edge of first two leaves, without loss; paper a little age-toned, with interior otherwise quite clean. Housed in a dark blue cloth clamshell case. (25180)
New Testament forFlorida Island Bible. N.T. Gela. Graves. 1923. Na lei gegere te tabu. London: British & Foreign Bible Society, 1923. 12mo (17 cm; 6.5"). 579, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon: We trace only one copy in U.S. libraries.
• Publisher's black cloth; title blind-stamped on cover. All edges carmine. Light offsetting to the free endpapers. A very good copy, clean and even bright. (25028)
First Printing ofAny Portion of the BiblePacific Island Language Bible. N.T. Gospels. Roviana. Goldie et al. 1946. Ka made Gosipeli pa zinama Roviana (Matiu, Maka, Luke, meke Jone). Sydney: Commonwealth Council of the British & Foreign Bible Society, 1946. 8vo (18 cm; 7"). 77, 43, 82, 59 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The title-page states: “This book is one of 300 [copies] paid for by the parishioners of Beecroft and Cheltenham in the Diocese of Sydney, in memory of the Rev. Joseph Young, Rector of the Parish 1903-1926. He passed to his rest on the 21st January, 1945.”
Uncommon. We trace only two copies in U.S. libraries.
• Publisher's red cloth. “North Central New Georgia” in ballpoint on the front free endpaper. A very good copy. (25022)
One from the
Church of Scotland Mission Bible. N.T. Lala. 1947. Ichalayano Ichabwangu icha ku Sikulu wesu no Mupanusi wesu Yesu Kristu. Edinburgh & Glasgow: National Bible Society of Scotland, 1947. 12mo (19 cm; 7.5"). [2] ff., 519, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. This is the first printing of the New Testament and Psalms in this language. The translation is the work of Cecilia M. Irvine and J.S. Howie of the Church of Scotland Mission.
We locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership.
• North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 1352. Publisher's red cloth, slight discoloration at top of spine and abrasion/discoloration to back cover. Upper outer edges of pp. 17–92 bumped and crumpled, front free endpaper with spots of soil. NOT a dreadful copy but not a fresh one! (25341)
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