1787 MICHAEL BILLMEYER. Das Neue Testament - Rare First Billmeyer American - German Imprint. Ephemera fine houses

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how much is found to commend us as professed followers of Christ

and Illustrated with a New Introduction

Owing to the death of Bishop Asbury

1787 MICHAEL BILLMEYER. Das Neue Testament - Rare First Billmeyer American - German Imprint. Ephemera fine housesThe first Luther New Testament printed in America. Michael Billmeyer (1752 1837), a Lutheran, along with his father in law, Peter Leibert, a Brethren minister, were the successors to Christoph Sauer. They acquired in 1783 what was usable of the Saur printing equipment, and established a printing business in Germantown. After about three years, Leibert started a new printing business, and Billmeyer became sole proprietor. Billmeyer was a prolific