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The Holy Bible: Old and New Testaments

by Julia Smith

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1st, 1st
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Hardcover
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
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€8,442.00
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A very good copy.. First appearance of the Julia Smith translation, one of 950 copies bound in cloth from a total issue of 1,000. A fully unrestored copy of the first full translation of the Bible ever published by a woman. Rare in any state, this one in near fine. Born in Glastonbury, Ct., Julia Smith (1792-1886) taught at the Emma Willard Seminary in Troy for a couple of years. She and her sisters were very involved in the abolitionist movement and attended their first woman suffrage meeting in Hartford in 1869. They fought against taxation of their property in that they did not have voting rights. They spoke to woman suffrage meetings and their case of their "Glastonbury cows" was infamous. ". hoping to aid the suffrage cause by demonstrating what a mere woman had accomplished . She published, at her own expense, this translation of the Bible, a literal, word-by-word translation of both the Old and New Testaments from the Greek and Latin. Purchased from the library of a pastor in Connecticut who… Read More
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