ELIOT INDIAN BIBLE- FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN AMERICA Start Price USD 195,000.00 Current Price USD 195,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 03, 2008 End Time Wednesday, December 03, 2008 Location Hagerstown, Maryland See more about 'ELIOT INDIAN BIBLE- FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN AMERICA' Description The 1685/1680 Eliot Indian Bible The First Bible Printed in the New World - The First Bible printed in America"The first Bible to be printed in a new language as a means of evangelization" (Printing and the Mind of Man)The Complete Second EditionThe Reverend Grindall Rawson’s copy:Evangelist to the Indians of New-Englandand occasional collaborator with John Eliot[Bible in Massachusetts.] ELIOT, John, translator. [General Title-page:] Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament Kah Wonk Wusku Testament … John Eliot … Cambridge: Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green, MDCLXXXV. [New Testament Algonquian Title-page:] Wusku Wuttestamentum nul-Lordumun Jesus Christ Nuppoquohwuffuaeneumun. Cambridge: Printed for the Right Honourable CORPORATION in London, for the propagation of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England, 1680. Second edition. Quarto. Complete (per collation in Darlow and Moule). Includes the Metrical Psalter and Rules of Christian Living at back. (Copies intended for England contained an inserted Dedication leaf to Robert Boyle – not expected in an American copy such as this one.)Beautiful condition, clean and fresh. Luxuriously margined. This edition was carefully revised by Eliot with the assistance of the Reverend John Cotton, Minister of Plymouth. The new edition was needed because of the general attrition rate of the first edition through usage by the “Praying Indians” and, sadly by the destruction of many copies during King Philip’s War. Printing on the New Testament began in 1680 and was completed in late 1681. The Metrical Psalter was completed in 1682. The Old Testament was begun in 1682 and completed in 1685, at which time the full work was published. This edition is notable for its opening summation paragraphs in English for each chapter.The importance of the John Eliot Indian Bible is impossible to overstate, unrivalled in the history of American printing, in the history of books for Native Americans, and in the history of Christian evangelical movements -- a work of singular importance and recognized as such even upon its publication.In a signed late 19th Century binding by F[ranics] Bedford (1799-1883), one of the leading Victorian bookbinders. Gorgeous full dark blue morocco, fine gilt extra. Red morocco doublures with flower and leaf gilt dentelles. Feather combed marbled free endpapers. All edges gilt (slightly on the rough). Absolutely beautiful. Text block washed and sized in rebinding. Preserved in a cushioned, hardgrain blue-green morocco clamshell case, spine gilt.Darlow and Moule 6738. See note at Darlow & Moule 6737: "Massachusetts belongs to the Algonquian family of languages, and was formerly spoken by a large tribe, now extinct, dwelling in Massachusetts. The name 'Virginian' given to the language by many writers from the seventeenth century downwards is incorrect. 'Natick' is the name of a place where a settlement of 'praying Indians' was established. The 'Centennial Survey of Foreign Missions' wrongly states that Eliot's Indian Bible is in 'Mohegan' or 'Mohican' though it records the Psalter of 1709 under the 'Massachusett Dialect.' The language is called 'Massachusetts' by the best authorities." Ayer, Indian Linguistics, Massachusetts 1; Church 580; Evans 72; Field 495; Pilling, Algonquian pp.132-152; Printing and the Mind of Man 142; Sabin 22154; 22155. WINSLOW, Ola Elizabeth, John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1968. See also deHamel, The Book and Biondi, Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America for anecdotal material on John Eliot and this Bible. PROVENANCE: This copy is the copy of the Reverend Grindall Rawson – a classmate and close friend of John Cotton and Cotton Mather – and a direct pastoral influence on the “Praying Indians” who survived and remained and rebuilt after the disastrous King Philip’s War. Rawson was at the very core of the Puritan elite in the American plantations of New-England during the period of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. One account of Rawson’s work among the Indians is published in Massachusetts Historical Collections, First Series, Volume 10. Cotton Mather, in his sermon preached at the 1715 funeral of his friend, Grindall Rawson, said: “We generally esteemed his a truly pious man… We honored him for his industrious oversight of the Flock in the Wilderness… We honored him for his intellectual abilities… and we usually took it for granted that things would be fairly done where he had a hand in doing them. We honored him for his doing the work of an Evangelist among our Indians, of whose language he was a master that had scarce an equal, and for whose welfare his projections and performances were such as render our loss herein hardly to be repaired.” Rawson’s great grand uncle and namesake was The Right Reverend Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of Canterbury under Queen Elizabeth, a vigorous and noted opponent of the Roman Church. Grindall Rawson co-authored with John Eliot Sampwutteahae Quinnuppekompauaenin (“The Sincere Convert” – 1698), a religious tract written in the Massachusetts language. Of course, Rawson authored also “The Necessity of a Speedy and Thorough Reformation” – 1709. Reverend Grindall Rawson was born in Boston (Suffolk) in January 1658 (modern reckoning) and died in February 1715 in Mendon, Massachusetts. This copy bears this inscription on the front flyleaf (integral to the collation of the printed book): “Grindall Rawson. His Indian Bible. Given him by his Father. 1712.” Grindall Rawson’s father was Edward Rawson, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1636 at the age of nineteen, graduated Harvard, and rose to become Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was officially chosen as the Plantation’s “steward or agent for the receiving and disposing of such goods and commodities as should be sent to the United Colonies from England toward Christianizing the Indians.” ALSO: The Reverend John Tyrrell Bailey (or Baylee), Pastor at Watertown, inscription of title-page: “Jo:Baily/ Jan.1. 86/7 N-E.”. Further inscribed on title-page: “John Tyrrell Baylee to his son Joseph Baylee.” The title-page was professionally washed by Bedford in the binding process but these inscriptions were masked to prevent running or fading.   SHIPPING: FREE shipping and secure packaging for all 50 US States and Territories. Additional overseas fee apply. Our products are securely shipped in sturdy packages via USPS priority mail or FedEx. We accept Visa, Master Merchant Credit Cards, Pay-Pal, Money Orders, Cashiers Checks, and Personal Checks (will ship after check clears). Question please call toll free 877-313-9002 or e-mail us at info@rarebiblesandmore.com or info@ChristianHeritageMuseum.com  Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!