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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
The first English book which was solely about Texas was Texas (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.
In addition, the Handbook of Texas Online is provided by the TSHA for historical internet research of Texas. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly (initially the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association) is the oldest continuously published scholarly journal in Texas. The journal features 16 articles per year, covering topics in a ...
Pages in category "17th-century books" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "1700s in Texas" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Martín de Alarcón; D.