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The Sauk Centre Herald
Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota
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The Bay Psalm Book (1640, Cambridge, Mass.) was once thought the first American book, but a 1535 devotional was printed in Mexico by Antonio d'Ispanola, per 1611 Spanish history; no copy survives.
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The Bay Psalm Book, which was published at Cambridge, Mass., in 1640, was for many years supposed to be the first book printed on the American continent, until it was noted that books had been printed by the Spaniards in Mexico over a century earlier. It is stated in "Fernandez' Ecclesiastical History," published in Toledo, Spain, in 1611, that the first book printed in the New World was a devotional book for the guidance of the faithful members of the church, published by Antonio d'Ispanola in the city of Mexico in 1535 by order of the Spanish viceroy. There is no copy of this first American book known to be in existence.
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Cambridge, Mass.; Mexico; Toledo, Spain
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1535
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The Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 at Cambridge, Mass., was long considered the first book printed in America, but books were printed by Spaniards in Mexico over a century earlier, with the first being a devotional book published in 1535 by Antonio d'Ispanola by order of the Spanish viceroy, as stated in Fernandez' Ecclesiastical History (1611). No copy of this 1535 book exists.