[Rarebooks] FS: Old Testament Bible in the Bengali language. Calcutta: 1844

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(BIBLE, O.T., BENGALI) THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE BENGALI LANGUAGE. 
Translated From the Original Hebrew, by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with Native 
Assistants. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, for the Bible 
Translation Society, and The American and Foreign Bible Society. 1844. Large 
8vo. (484)pp. Double column text. Half-title and title page in English & 
Bengali, otherwise the entire text in Bengali. Cont. calf with leather spine 
label.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the first single volume complete Old Testament in Bengali. It is a 
revised version translated by William Yates (1792-1845) a Baptist missionary 
who was first stationed at Serampore, and afterwards at Calcutta. The first 
Bengali Old Testament was translated by William Carey. It was published in 
4 parts between 1802-1809. Darlow & Moule 2079.

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