Eliot Indian Bible single leaf from the second edition

Description

2nd Edition. 18×14 cm. S. Green. Cambridge. 1685. 2 pp. Very good, light toning and foxing, two spots of tape to the recto, trimmed into the side notes on the outside margin. A leaf from the rare “Eliot Indian Bible” translated into the Algonquian language. This Bible was the first Bible published in British North America, making this leaf (from the second edition) a historic item for collectors of early Algonquian language books as well as for Bible collectors. weight: 0.1 lb.