The present is a very rare first edition, first printing of the first Greek New Testament printed in America. The first printing is distinguished by the misprint of ςοφά at Jude 25, which was corrected in the second otherwise identical imprint.
Also contains the rather rarely preserved Isaiah Thomas woodcut as the final leaf.
Signed on the ffep by John Blanchard with a note to the title, "Translated the first day in America."
H KAINH ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. Novum Testamentum. Juxta Exemplar Joannis Millii Ac. Curatissime Impressum. Wigorniae, Massachusettensi. Excudebat Isaias Thomas. 1800. 478pp.
A good - to fair copy, bound in leather with the front board detached, but generally solid internally, with handled pages and toning throughout. Final advert leaf damaged as shown.
