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1830ABC_483971830. Contemporary navy blue morocco with the title lettered in gold on spine marbled endpapers. 4to 21.5 x 27 cm. With 2 folding tables 17 lines to the page written in red and black ink. A unique handwritten vocabulary and phrasebook of English and Arabic from the first half of the 19th century. This meticulously prepared manuscript is written in the fashion of a printed book opening with a title page and ending with an index of topics. It is divided into four main sections: nouns adjectives verbs and example sentences. The vocabulary especially in the nouns section is arranged by subjects which include such interesting headings as "Druggist" "Painter" "Merchant" "Cities" "the Bride's Paraphernalia" "Precious Jewels" "War" "The Church" "Clerical Vestments" "Ecclesiastical Degrees & Kinds of Sin" "Festivals" and "Monks their prayers and their dress". Presumably the dictionary was created to help a traveller or merchant who may have had an association with the Church. The final section offers an interesting selection of phrases and sheds some light on the experience of foreign language learning in the early 19th century. The phrases are a mixture of sentences that would be useful in daily life and such as would be included to practice the words from the vocabulary. Examples include: "We roasted a lamb and ate the whole of it and drank wine with it"; "I descended from above with the youth my enemy"; "I shot the bear in the water and he sank"; and "Why dost thou scratch thy head and spit in fire". As a cheat sheet for Arabic grammar the author includes two folding tables of Arabic verb tenses and conjugations. Overall a curious example of a 19th-century Arabic vocabulary and phrasebook.With a presentation note in English indicating it was a Christmas gift in 1881 presented by G. W. Bernard Esq. Binding and spine worn some browning and staining throughout. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
187769585Buffalo NY: Young Lockwood & Co's Steam Press 1877. Hardcover. Good . 453pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Decoratively embossed red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Prominent dings to board edges. Cloth at spine ends a bit chipped and frayed. Small stains at fore-edge of the text block. Slight lean to spine. Elbert H. English 1816-1884 was chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court when the state seceded from the Union in 1861. Young, Lockwood & Co's Steam Press hardcover
1973338255London: Privately Printed for Edward and Catherine Ardizzone 1973. First edition issued as a 1973 Christmas greeting card by Edward and Catherine Ardizzone. Very slightly rubbed at tips of corners with one small tan soil spot at one corner else a near fine copy. First edition issued as a 1973 Christmas greeting card by Edward and Catherine Ardizzone. Scarce no holding of this 1973 Christmas greeting card is located by OCLC. Seven examples of other Christmas cards illustrated by Ardizzone are included among the Edward Ardizzone papers housed by de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. This 1973 Christmas card pre-dates the earliest of those seven known examples the earlist of which was dated 1976. [Privately Printed for Edward and Catherine Ardizzone] unknown
1766BB0214Hafinae & Lipsiae Copenhagen and Leipzig: Printed By Pelt Friedrich Christian 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Near Fine. Fourth Edition in Latin of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels second only to Gulliver's Travels eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: 10360pp with portrait frontispiece engraved title-page folding map and six full-page plates engraved by Brühl the 1741 first edition published in Copenhagen contained only 3 three plates in addition to the frontispiece; the first English edition none. Contemporary dark brown mottled sheep elaborately gilded spine sewn on five bands green and tan lettering pieces gilt red paste-paper end papers marbled edges. Spine rubbed with some loss of gilt else an extremely pleasing and collectible copy of this satirical romance in the style of Gulliver's Travels although Bleiler notes that "Holberg's satire is wider in scope more penetrating in analysis and less local than Swift's" by the father of Danish literature "Holberg found Denmark with no books and he wrote a library for her."—Encyclopedia Britannica. Internally fine and bright with excellent plate impressions. Hoover 425. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1114 of "international importance". Gove pp. 303-305; Stammhammer II p. 171. Brunet III 260. Originally published in 1741 this highly imaginative Swiftian journey to a fifth underground continent is set in the Norwegian town of Bergen where a penniless student visits a strange cave falls into a void and ends up on the subterranean planet Nazar which is inhabited by sentient monkeys thinking trees goat philosophers and double basses that communicate musically. According to Lewis Utopian Literature p. 92 Niels Klim is the first important fictional use of the astronomer Edmond Haley's theory suggested in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1692 that three concentric hollow balls nested inside the earth account for the magnetism of the poles through their movement and that openings at the poles provide access to hidden worlds through a series of caves. Nor was Haley alone: from the 1600s to the early 1900s the notion of a hollow earth was treated seriously by leading scientists including Johannes Kepler and Athanasius Kircher. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian unknown
AQ32799London: Samuel Bagster and Sons s.d. c. 1860 Finely bound in publisher's luxurious blind-decorated gilt- titled brown morocco gilt-metal corner bosses to beveled boards gauffered edges marbled endpapers gilt dentelles morocco label to FEP lettered in gilt 'FROM INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - 1862'. Lightly rubbed gilt-metal clasp broken away and absent. An exhibition quality Victorian Neo-Gothic binding executed by Bagster and Sons for display at the Great London Exposition of 1862. The International Exhibition of 1862: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department p.87 issued to accompany the event states: 'The publishers of London show together in a collective case where may be seen some of the most luxurious volumes produced by the leading houses. The reprint of the first edition of Shakespeare; the Bibles of Bagster and Spottiswoode are also in this collection.' Founded by Samuel Bagster the elder 1772-1851 who was succeeded in the by his sons Samuel Bagster the Younger 1800-1835 and Jonathan Bagster 1813-1872 Bagster and Sons was renowned in the early nineteenth-century for bringing a wealth of rare scholarly Bibles and Liturgical texts to the mass market most notably Polyglot Bibles and reprints of early protestant translations by Tyndall Wycliff and Cranmer. Their efforts in producing affordable yet finely printed versions of Biblical texts allowed the Bagsters to pioneer the avoidance of the monopoly printing of the Authorized version. . 8vo. Samuel Bagster and Sons, [s.d., c. 1860] paperback
1835AQ29761London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1835. Unpaginated. Contemporary sombre binding blind-stamped black morocco. A trifle rubbed. Small hole to FFEP without front blank fly-leaf. A late Regency edition of the bible in a handsome contemporary sombre binding. . 8vo. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode unknown
1657AQ33174Cambridge: Printed by John Field 1657. 1354pp. Title printed within an ornamental border containing the seal of Cambridge University signed: Rob. Vaughan sculp. The New Testament and the Psalms both have separate title pages dated 1657 the register is continuous. Handsomely bound by Gilmour of Salisbury in early nineteenth-century black panelled morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed some surface loss to upper board. Armorial bookplate of J. L. Jackson with later pencilled inscription 'to Mr. Calcraft. John 1.29. I Thess. v. 23 ' to FEP head of text-block trimmed with occasional loss to running- title small hole to leaf Cc1 with slight loss of text and sense very occasional chipping to margins. A choice example of a Commonwealth era Cambridge-printed King James Bible notorious for its errors from the press of John Field in a finely executed later provincial binding - to a very distinct style - by the Gilmour family Andrew then George of binders and stationers of Salisbury fl.1800 onwards. As was noted by the contemporary pamphleteer William Kilburne in his Dangerous errors in several late printed Bibles London 1659 part of a series railing against the poor-quality Bible printing work of Henry Hills and John Field this edition omits Psalms Ch.143 v.4 in its entirety 'and there are many other faults as I am well informed of very great notoriety'. Provenance: With the bookplate of James Leonard Jackson 1777-1854 rector at St. Mary's Church Swanage; presented by him to a male member of the Calcraft family of Wareham most likely John Hales Calcraft 1796-1880 Member of Parliament for Wareham. ESTC R38638 Herbert 656 Wing B2252. 8vo. Printed by John Field unknown
1865AQ34604Oxford: Printed at the University Press 1865. Unpaginated printed in double columns. With a divisional title page to the New Testament. Bound by Field stamp-signed to front turn-in in contemporary blind-stamped black morocco lettered in gilt to spine initials 'H. L.' lettered in gilt to upper board. A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked with light surface wear to head and foot of spine. Scattered spotting to initial and terminal leaves. A fine Victorian Bible bound by Field of Regent Street and printed by the Oxford University Press. Provenance: from the library at Lowther Castle H.L. presumably referring to Henry Lowther 3rd Earl of Lonsdale 1818-1876. . 8vo. Printed at the University Press unknown
1825AQ33924Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith printer to the University 1825. Unpaginated. Contemporary black morocco ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt to spine A.E.G. Rubbed with wear to extremities and light scoring to boards. Later book-label of Lowther Castle library to FEP. Leaves lightly browned light scattered spotting. A Regency edition of the Holy Bible printed by John Smith at the Cambridge University Press and bound for the use of the Lonsdale family of Lowther Castle Cumbria. Provenance: from the library at Lowther Castle. . 8vo. Printed by J. Smith, printer to the University hardcover
1869AQ34657Oxford: Printed at the Oxford University Press 1869. unpaginated and can't find a copy. Contemporary blind-stamped black morocco lettered in gilt to upper board with the initials 'C. E. L.'. Rubbed and marked with some bumping to corners. Inked ownership inscriptions 'Lowther' 'C.E. Lowther' and 'Charlie Lowther July 3rd 1869' to FEP FFEP and first blank fly-leaf respectively. Manuscript doodles of the crucifixion to FEP. Leaves lighly browned light spotting and scuffing to endpapers. An apparently unrecorded Victorian edition of the Holy Bible printed by the Oxford University Press and bound for its young owner the ten year old Hon. Charles Edwin Lowther 1859-1888 son of Henry Lowther Third Earl of Lonsdale. His manuscript scribbles of Christ on the crucifix can still be seen doodled on the front endpaper. . 8vo. Printed at the Oxford University Press unknown
1811AQ33894Lewes: Sussex Press Printed and sold by John Baxter 1811. In two volumes. With an engraved title page to each volume and a further 30 of 32 plates. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplates of John Trotter Royal Artillery to both FEPs naive clear tape repair of head of leaf 4Z2 of Vol. I small marginal hole to leaf 5N2 loss to lower corner of leaf 6M1 with slight loss of sense slight marginal loss to leaf 7S1 small central hole to leaf 10Q1 naive marginal paper repairs to initial two leaves of Vol. II second leaf misbound closed tear to leaf 12E2 loss to lower corner of leaf 12S1 marginal clear tape repairs to leaves 13G1-2 13H2 loss to lower corner of 14C1 15Q2 and 16Y2. A handsomely bound - albeit slightly defective - early nineteenth century provincially published illustrated Bible with explanatory notes by Brightonian Church of England clergyman John Styles 1782-1849. . Quarto. Sussex Press, Printed and sold by John Baxter unknown
1823AQ19315Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co. 1823. Unpaginated. With additional engraved title pages for both the O.T. and N.T. and a further 27 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary blind-stamped black straight-grain morocco lettered in gilt A.E.G. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Manuscript records of births deaths marriages etc. of the Trueman family to front blank fly-leaves very occasional light spotting. . Quarto. Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood and Co. unknown
1856AQ29759London: Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode.for the Religious Tract Society 1856. viii 4 223pp 1. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Ticket of the Religious Tract Society of Birmingham to FEP scattered spotting. This edition of the English Bible is 'a correct reprint of the Authorized Version in general use; but it differs from other editions in two particulars namely:- First it is divided into paragraphs according to changes or divisions in the subjects treated of and the pauses in the narrative. Secondly the Metrical parts such as the Psalms and Prophetical Books are printed in Parallelisms; according to the natural order of the original' preface. . 8vo. Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode...for the Religious Tract Society unknown
1641AQ25531Imprinted at London by Robert Barker.and by the Assignes of John Bill 1641. 528pp. Title within ornamental woodcut border. ESTC R107604 Herbert 560 Wing B2645. ESTC records copies at just three locations British and Foreign Bible Society BL and NLS. Bound with: The whole booke of psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternehold J. Hopkins W. Whittingham and others: conferred with the Hebrew. Edinburgh. Printed by Evan Tyler 1644. 22 230pp 16. ESTC R231218 Wing B2403A. ESTC records copies at just four locations BL Manchester NLS and Oxford. 24mo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled black morocco A.E.G. with some gauffering. Rubbed to extremities bumping to corners loss/tearing to endbands Internally clean and crisp. A rare diminutive vicesimo-quarto London-printed Testament bound with a near contemporary Edinburgh- printed edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter. The binding style would be somewhat unusual for London; the rolls rules and flourishes are more indicative of seventeenth-century Scottish work. . unknown
2024BIBSD0323168392024. Full Leather Bound. NEW. Size: 22.22x 29.21 cms A Unique Premium Leather-Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine front and Back of the book with edge gilding. WE HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN COLOR OF LEATHER RED GREEN BLUE MAGENTA TAN PURPLE DEEP BROWN BLACK AND WITH DIFFERENT COLOR LABELS. YOU MAY CHOOSE ANY COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE AND MAIL US. This service is chargeable. Original edition was published in 1775 and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2024 with the help of original edition. Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually on computer and make them readable. We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume. We hope that you understand these issues in these old treasure. This is an important book for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure. Our dedicated team is trying to bring these rare books back to the shelves. We are also giving service of printing the hard-to-find books which are not listed in our store. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - Middle English Pages 1548. Product Disclaimer: Please be aware that because leather is a natural material slight discoloration or change in texture may be visible. FOLIO EDITION Size 12x19 Inches IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Please Note:- Text Cut 20 Images Dark Text Break And Text Dark hardcover
19371267221937. San Francisco: Book Club of California 1937. <br /> <br /> Slim folio i xxii 2 pp. original leaf from the Apocrypha tipped in between pages 16 and 17. Double columns printed in red and black throughout initials hand-illuminated in red blue yellow and gold. Original quarter cloth paper backstrip label. A very good copy touch of foxing to boards fine internally.<br /> <br /> § One of 300 copies. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. The leaf contains the text of 2 Maccabees 14:36 to the end including the show-stopping death of Razis the triumph of Judas and the death of Nicanor. "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Club members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the past five years." Magee 51. unknown
16084431London: Robert Barker 1608. A very nice copy of a Breeches Bible published by Robert Barker in 1608. Contains: A general title; The Old Testament but no separate Old Testament Title page; The New Testament With Title; Revelation ; 2 Concordances With separate title stating that these were collected by R.F.H. ; Book of Psalms Separate title state that they were collected by Thomas Sternehold & John Hopkins. Bound in full 20th century mottled calf. Plain new endpapers. 4 raised bands to spine blind decorations to compartments. Board edges patterned. Black and gilt label & titles to spine. All title pages present. Final 3 pages Psalms with very old repairs and one page inserted out of order. Psalms complete but Creed incomplete at end of book So ends at page 92. All sections dated 1608. Robert Barker. The noted issues with this copy are: f68 marked as f96; f173 with pasted down border note; f329 last of Ezekiel misbound in Daniel; f330 present but with loss of a large are of text; f434 mispaginated as f435; f435 has large ink stain to verso; f464 small closed tear; f483 torn with some loss; f490 mispaginated as f499; f534 complete but torn; Book of Psalms: 1st 10 pages unpaginated; p28 mispaginated as p27; p86 mispaginated as p66; pps 87/88 exchanged with pps 89/90; The final two leaves have been repaired and the final leaf with moderate loss to the edges. As is inevitable with a Bible of this age there are also tiny tears nicks and edgewear and a general darkening of the pages nevertheless s a very nice example. This edition of the Geneva Bible received the nickname Breeches Bible because on its erroneous translation of Genesis Chapter 3 Verse 7. The text reads: 'Then the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed figge tree leaves together and made themselves breeches.' Each page is numbered to the recto only if at all so these are actually leaf numbers so we refer to fn. To confuse matters further the book of psalms numbers each page not leaf. Full collation: ii 1-554 1-98 1-91.pp Collation: lacks blank q1 q2-Zzz10 A-L2 A-G3. Our copy substantially conforms to Darlow & Moule 225a. The states that it is substantially a close reprint of the 1605 quarto with text ending on fo.554 as does ours for the OT and NT and with Gen. i. 3: 'Then God Sayd.' 240 by 170mm 9½ by 6¾ inches. . Très bel exemplaire d'une Bible en culotte de cheval publiée par Robert Barker en 1608. Contient : Un titre général ; l'Ancien Testament mais pas de page de titre séparée pour l'Ancien Testament ; le Nouveau Testament avec un titre ; l'Apocalypse ; 2 concordances avec un titre séparé indiquant qu'elles ont été rassemblées par R.F.H. ; le Livre des Psaumes avec un titre séparé indiquant qu'elles ont été rassemblées par Thomas Sternehold & John Hopkins. Reliure en plein veau moucheté du 20e siècle. Les pages de garde sont neuves et unies. 4 bandes surélevées au dos décorations aveugles sur les compartiments. Bords de la planche à motifs. Étiquette et titres noirs et dorés au dos. Toutes les pages de titre sont présentes. Les 3 dernières pages Psaumes avec de très vieilles réparations et une page insérée dans le désordre. Les Psaumes sont complets mais le Credo est incomplet à la fin du livre il se termine à la page 92. Toutes les sections sont datées de 1608. Robert Barker. Les problèmes notés dans cet exemplaire sont : f68 marqué comme f96 ; f173 avec une note de bordure collée ; f329 dernière page d'Ezéchiel mal reliée à Daniel ; f330 présent mais avec perte d'une grande partie du texte ; f434 mal paginé comme f435 ; f435 a une grande tache d'encre au verso ; f464 petite déchirure fermée ; f483 déchiré avec une certaine perte ; f490 mal paginé comme f499 ; f534 complet mais déchiré ; Livre des Psaumes : Les 10 premières pages ne sont pas paginées ; p28 mal paginée comme p27 ; p86 mal paginée comme p66 ; pps 87/88 échangées avec pps 89/90 ; Les deux derniers feuillets ont été réparés et le dernier feuillet avec une perte modérée sur les bords. Comme c'est inévitable avec une Bible de cet âge il y a aussi de petites déchirures des entailles et un assombrissement général des pages mais c'est un très bel exemplaire. Cette édition de la Bible de Genève a reçu le surnom de Bible à culotte en raison de sa traduction erronée du chapitre 3 verset 7 de la Genèse. Le texte se lit comme suit : Les yeux de l'un et de l'autre s'ouvrirent et ils connurent qu'ils étaient nus. Ils cousirent ensemble des feuilles de figuier et se firent une culotte. Chaque page n'étant numérotée qu'au recto voire pas du tout il s'agit en fait de numéros de feuilles nous nous référons donc à fn. Pour compliquer encore les choses le livre des psaumes numérote chaque page et non chaque feuille. Collation complète : ii 1-554 1-98 1-91.pp Collation : manque le blanc q1 q2-Zzz10 A-L2 A-G3. Notre exemplaire est en grande partie conforme à Darlow & Moule 225a. Il s'agit d'une réimpression proche du quarto de 1605 avec le texte se terminant sur fo.554 comme le nôtre pour l'AT et le NT et avec Gen. i. 3 : 'Then God Sayd.' 240 par 170mm 9½ par 6¾ pouces. Robert Barker hardcover
1540T75<p><strong>Summary</strong></p><p>Pulpit Folio 14.25" x 10.25". An early folio of the second edition of the Great Bible with all five title pages. A beautifully rebound copy with first ownership provenance of a famous knight merchant and mayor of the city of London.</p><p><strong>Description </strong></p><p>General title page 1541 printed in red and black featuring Henry VIII above distributing his <em>Verbum Dei</em> to Cromwell and Cranmer God barely squeezed in among the clouds at the top. Archbishop Cranmer on the left distributing the Bible to the clergy and the Cromwell on the right is distributing the Bible to the nobility. Below the people are without Bibles as the Great Bible was chained to pulpits and proclaim only <em>Vivat Rex</em> aside from the few who are imprisoned on the bottom right. Calendar also printed in red and black. Text in two column black letter with 62 lines to the full column. The beginning of each chapter features a floriated or historiated woodcut initial with occasional metal cast capitals. Title pages to the second third and fourth parts also printed in red and black bordered by the relevant woodcuts to that section. The New Testament title page n.d. in red and black like the general title except that Cromwell's arms are removed. Concludes with <em>The Table.</em></p><p><strong>Collation</strong></p><p>6 a-k8 l4 first part A-N8 O4 second part Aa-Pp8 Qq4 third part Aaa-Hhh8 Iii6 fourth part Aa-Nn8 -Nn6-8 New Testament. <strong><em>Lacks</em></strong> the final leaf of Revelation and two leaves of the Tables provided in expert facsimile. All titles are present.</p><p><strong>Binding</strong></p><p>Rebound in period appropriate back calf. Boards paneled in gilt with gilt rolls and corner fleurons around a central arabesque design. Spine with six blind-lined raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to compartments. A red gilt-lined morocco label with the words "Holy Bible" and a date of 1540 lettered in gilt to the foot. Endpapers renewed.</p><p><strong>Condition</strong></p><p>Intermittent staining to lower gutter and head; trimmed at head with headlines cropped in Pentateuch and just touching a few sidenotes; 3 reinforced and remargined; 4 Kk1 lower corner repair without loss; h45 lower margin reinforced; l4 Rr6 laid down; Nn5 repair to lower gutter without loss; a well-preserved copy of an important early Bible.</p><p><strong>Provenance </strong></p><p>Early ownership inscription to foot of first Calendar leaf reading "This Bible apertayneth unto Sir William Allyn Knight and Alderman of the City of London." William Allyn 1515-1586 was a prominent London merchant and Lord Mayor 1555–56. The location where Cromwell's arms are removed on the NT title bears a merchant's device dated 1574.</p><p><strong>Note</strong></p><p>An impressive copy of the scarce Great Bible so called due to its imposing size. This copy like many from the first seven editions is issued in a mixed state. The general title is from April 1540 but Genesis 1 and Matthew 1 from May 1541. The New Testament title page is also from a 1541 copy as Cromwell's arms are removed. The few small flaws notwithstanding this is an attractive copy of an almost complete early Great Bible that is becoming increasingly scarce in commerce.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Herbert 53; STC 2070; Luborsky and Ingram 2070.</p> Edward Whytchurche hardcover
19731880229084World Publishing 1973. Unknown. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Former owner's name in ink on presentation page and embossed onto front exterior cover otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to covers and spine strip. Words of Christ written in red. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. World Publishing unknown
196416669New York: American Bible Society 1964 Bound in Jerusalem in an olive wood binding with intricate hand-carved mother-of-pearl inlays featuring a Star of David on the front cover with the word "Jerusalem" etched below.On the back cover is a Jerusalem Cross. Brown leather spine lettered by hand. Small tear along front hinge. Quarto. With black and white photographs and maps showing the anicent Biblical areas historical sites and personages etc Very good. Mother-of-Pearl carving a traditional handicraft in Bethlehem is said to have been brought to the city by Franciscan friars from Italy in the fifteenth century. Others believe it was introduced by Italian Crusaders sometime between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. However it began Bethlehem became famous as a center of the craft. Models of churches and mosques inlaid in Bethlehem with mother-of-pearl are on display in museums throughout the world. The first exhibition in the West of mother-of-pearl artifacts from Palestine was at the New York World's Fair in 1852. Skilled craftspeople especially women created mother-of-pearl items as souvenirs including crosses earrings brooches picture frames and book covers. American Bible Society, hardcover
19147040London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper twelve copies on vellum were also produced printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv 1 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates including frontispiece by Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 each with a printed tissue guard. Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall. Ink gift inscription dated 1918 and mid-twentieth century ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf. A Fine bright copy.<br /> <br /> Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 was an accomplished painter and illustrator. His painting The Death of Abel held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is considered his most enduring work. "This work was the source of an illustration for The Book of Genesis published by the Riccardi Press in 1914; together with another masterpiece The Death of Rachel it constitutes his finest achievement as a book illustrator" ODNB. Robinson's illustrations for The Book of Genesis epitomize his melancholy style which reflected the influence of both ornate art deco aesthetics and the somber clarity of the Symbolist movement. Fine. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown
17956211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club.<br /> <br /> ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown
63592London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1802. 9 vols. 8vo. 23.5 x 14 cm. Handsomely bound in straight grained dark blue morocco sides ruled with gilt fillet border enclosing blindstamed central panel smooth spines with gilt rules and gilt lettering inner dentelles with with greek key motif marbled endpapers silk ribbon page markers all edges gilt. Gilt leather label to front inner board of Vol. 1 of 'W. & G. Foyle Ltd.' Some light trivial shelfwear contents clean save for some spotting to 'Notes' section at end of Vol. 1 generally an excellent handsomely bound set. Vol. 1: Genesis - Numbers Vol. 2: Deuteronomy - 2 Samuel Vol. 3: 1 Kings - Esther Vol. 4: Job - Psalms Vol. 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah Vol. 6: Ezekiel - Malachi Vol. 7: The Apocrypha Vol. 8: Matthew - Acts Vol. 9: Romans- Revelation London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., 1802. hardcover
64098London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty for the British and Foregin Bible Society 1849. 4to. 26.5 x 20 cm. Contemporary full red morocco by Watkins their ticket to front pastedown sides richly gilt-decorated spine with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments gilt inner dentelles yellow-coated endpapers all edges gilt. Text printed in two columns. With an inscription to flyleaf reading: 'Presented to Mr. & Mrs. R. Balfour Stevenson with the kind regards and good wishes of the Revd. James C. and Mrs. Herdman. Calcutta 7th March 1853'. Lower front joint with slight crack minor indent at top edges of binding generally a very goodhandsome copy. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, for the British and hardcover
64914London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1802. 9 vols. 8vo. 23.5 x 15 cm. Contemporary half navy calf over complementary cloth with ticket of John Spreat Bookbinder & Stationer Exeter to front pastedown spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments. Some light rubbing to exteriors cloth a bit faded contents with some very light occasional spotting but generally clean and unmarked overall a very handsome set. Sometimes bound in ten volumes as described in Herbert with a separate volume of the Notes here the Prefaces and Notes are bound at the end of each volume. Vol. 1: Genesis - Numbers Vol. 2: Deuteronomy - 2 Samuel Vol. 3: 1 Kings - Esther Vol. 4: Job - Psalms Vol. 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah Vol. 6: Ezekiel - Malachi Vol. 7: The Apocrypha Vol. 8: Matthew - Acts Vol. 9: Romans- Revelation London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., 1802. hardcover
