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176507820London from Sat. May 4 to Tues. May 7 1765 1765. Unbound. Folio vol. XVII No.1307 pages 433-440. News of interest about Great Britain and elsewhere including "For Gout and Rheumatism" sections on "To Be Sold" and "To Be Lett" and marriages. Very good with light soiling to front page. <br/><br/> unknown books
176507818London from Tues June 25 to Thurs June 27 1765 1765. Folio vol. XVII No.1329; pages 609-616. News of interest about Great Britain and elsewhere including an article "An Experiment to make Potatoes thrive without Dung" by Mr. Tichiffeli. On final leaf are some stock prices Christenings numbers of dead by disease and by casualty. Very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
176316738Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn 1763. 4to. 10 702 pp. <br><br>Volume: "zehente theil." Text and commentary of Ezekiel and Daniel. Contemporary sheep raised bands on spine gilt roll above and below each band gilt-lettering in two compartments with title "Erklärung der Heiligen Schrift" gilt-stamped on a leather label gilt floral tooling in other four compartments. Worn and abraded a little dry and rusting gilt flaking away. Paper edges stained red. Waterstaining in upper and upper outer margins throughout. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn hardcover books
172334825Lipsiae: Sumptibus filii J. Friderici Gleditschii 1723. Folio cm ". 20 168 2 632 pp.; illus. <br><br>Based on John Mill's much-lauded 1707 edition of the Greek New Testament this is the second issue of Ludolph Küster's revised version originally published in 1710. A scholar from the Westphalia region of Germany Küster 16701716 specialized in paleography and Greek; this printing includes his preface and Prolegomena and extensive commentary in Latin below the main text. Using twelve new manuscripts in his research Küster significantly added to Mill's 16451707 collation.<br>Â Â Â Â The title-page printed in red and black features an => engraved vignette of the Virgin Mary enthroned above the Earth flanked by an eagle a lion a bull and an angel representing the Four Evangelists and there are => five additional large illustrative engraved vignettes functioning as headpieces in the text. Printed double-column and divided in the middle of each page by a paragraph of citations the text is dotted by a variety of woodcut floriated and historiated initials and factotum Greek capitals.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with pencilled inscription "C.B.P.B. 1709" and with bookplate of Newton Theological Institution properly deaccessioned noting gift from library of Edward Cushing Mitchell D.D. class of 1853. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4735. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked some time ago; scuffed and worn front joint starting from head and foot extremities rubbed and chipped. Front pastedown with inscription and bookplate as above; two text pages institutionally pressure-stamped. Offsetting to margins of first and last few leaves; waterstaining to inner portions of first 80 and a few final pages touching but not obscuring text on some pages and a small area of the first headpiece. One proud corner folded over several other corners bumped; scattered spots of light staining and ink smears not obscuring sense; occasional small edge nick. One early inked marginal annotation in English and Greek. Very readable and usable. Sumptibus filii J. Friderici Gleditschii unknown books
179923757Philadelphia: Pr. by A. Bartram 1799. 4to. viii xvi 488 pp.; 196 8 pp. <br><br>George Campbell 171996 was a minister of the Church of Scotland theologian and principal of Marischal College. He wrote a number of theological works including a defense of miracles in response to David Hume and was noted for originality of argument as well as charity towards his opponents. This translation of the Gospels was first published in England in 1789; the work consists of a preface and preliminary dissertations the actual translation and the notes with the whole being very scholarly resorting frequently to the Greek in the dissertations and notes.<br>Â Â Â Â Campbell's translation of the Gospels were first printed in the U.S. in 1796 and was the first privately accomplished translation of the Gospels printed in America. This is only the second edition printed in America. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W4382; Evans 35200; Hills English Bible in America 71. On Campbell see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Publisher's brown leather rebacked board edges refurbished original spine-label reused. Old library pressure-stamps and a bit of pencilling stamped numberwith a properly deaccessioned. Occasional light foxing and with some marginal waterstains. Overall a rather nice copy. Pr. by A. Bartram hardcover books
179611489Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 4to 27.7 cm 10.9". vii xvi 488 196 pp. 8 ff. <br><br>Three American "firsts" here counting that of our caption! For while being additionally the uncommon first printing in America of the Gospels in English in any translation other than the King James or the Douai-Rheims version this is also the first privately accomplished translation of the Gospels printed in America.<br>Â Â Â Â George Campbell 171996 was a minister of the Church of Scotland theologian and principal of Marischal College. He wrote a number of theological works including a defense of miracles in response to David Hume and was noted for originality of argument as well as charity towards his opponents. This translation of the Gospels was first published in England in 1789; the work consists of a preface and preliminary dissertations the actual translation and the notes with the whole being very scholarly resorting frequently to the Greek in the dissertations and notes.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page and contents leaf with early inked inscriptions reading "Jas. Booth. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W4383; Evans 30086; Hills English Bible in America 56. On Campbell see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary treed sheep rubbed and abraded with leather lost at corners; nicely rebacked with original label laid on. Title-page and contents inscribed as described above; endpapers waterstained and pages with light spots of foxing. Paper in many sections faintly blue. Thomas Dobson hardcover books
179836792Gottingae: Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich 1798. Small 8vo 20 cm; 8". viii 267 1 pp. <br><br>Variorum edition begun by Johann Benjamin Koppe 175091 and continued by Johann Heinrich Heinrichs 176550. Text of the Epistles in Greek preface prolegomena and commentary in Latin. 19th-century German black mottled paper over paste boards. Ex-library: call number label on spine bookplate on front pastedown. NO rubber-stamps. Water stain in fore-margins of pp. 157-204 sometimes into text. Minor scattered foxing. Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich hardcover books
179136794Gottingae: Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich 1791. Small 8vo 20 cm; 8". 2 vols. I: xviii 160 pp. <br><br>Variorum edition begun by Johann Benjamin Koppe 175091 and continued by Johann Heinrich Heinrichs 176550. Text of the Epistles in Greek preface prolegomena and commentary in Latin. The edition "alter auctior et emendatio curavit Th. Chr. Tychsen. 19th-century German black mottled paper over paste boards. Ex-library: call number label on spine bookplate on front pastedown. NO rubber-stamps. Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich hardcover books
17727109Edinburgh: J. Robertson 1772. 8vo. 1 f. 346 pp. <br><br>Scarce first edition of this private translation a classical Latin paraphrase of the psalms in dactylic hexameters by George Buchanan 150682 with an accompanying Latin prose version and an English translation by Andrew Waddel. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T124032; not in Darlow & Moule. Ex-library: library buckram covers pressure-stamped spine with gilt title and paper shelf label. Fine chipping at head and foot of spine. Front pastedown with bookplate; rear free endpaper with charge pocket. Hinges inside open but sewing holding. Front free endpaper detached. Interior rubber-stamps including one on title-page. Lightly age-toned throughout. Some dog ears a few obscuring page number. Inked ownership inscription on title-page. J. Robertson hardcover books
177410669Goettingae: Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck 1774. 4to 23 cm. 2 494 pp. <br><br>Signed presentation copy from the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey Regius Professor of Hebrew Oxford University dated 1835. Edited by Simon de Magistris. Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns. Illustrated with an engraving on p. 104 and engravings of Greek coins on p. 194. WorldCat locates only one copy of this edition in U.S. libraries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule but see 4760 for the 1773 edition and 4759 for the first edition. Contemporary plain wrappers paper over spine chipped and with lengthwise cracks; binding coming apart with final 14 pages separated. Gift inscription dated 1835 on verso of title-page. Bookplate of a theological seminary on inside of front cover. Some pages unopened. Foxed. Dog-eared. => Uncut mostly unopened copy. Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck unknown books
176334979Oxoni: E typographeo Clarendoniano 1763. 8vo in 4s 23.5 cm 9.25". 4 676 pp. <br><br>Sole octavo printing of the Greek New Testament using Baskerville type i.e. Greek type that Baskerville designed and cut himself; and indeed this pleasingly was printed from the only set of Baskerville type that survives to this day still at Oxford's Clarendon Press. The text was based on the Mill edition of the Greek N.T.; Darlow and Moule notes that while the text "generally reproduces that of Mill . . . Reuss notes seven variations." => An important example of 18th-century fine printing of the Bible.<br>Â Â Â Â This copy retains its half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: The Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Gaskell enlarged ed. Add. 2; Darlow & Moule 4756. Contemporary acid-stained calf rebacked some time ago with morocco spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information; edges and extremities rubbed sides and spine with small scuffs. New endpapers with pencilled annotations; back pastedown with California bookseller's small ticket. No library markings. Title-page with tiny nick in upper edge. Pages very slightly age-toned with a very few scattered small spots otherwise crisp and clean. E typographeo Clarendoniano unknown books
179426207New Haven: Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin 1794. 4to 26.3 cm 10.4". 1168 pp. lacking frontis. portrait pp. 12128. <br><br>First American edition following the British first of 170003 of this successful and remarkably often reprinted New Testament with commentary by Anglican clergyman William Burkitt one online database erroneously describes a few holdings of this edition as having been printed in 1793. The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne called it a "deservedly popular work" with much "practical utility"; Spurgeon admired it too and useful in its way it still is.<br>Â Â Â Â The Biblical verses with interspersed exegesis are printed in double columns. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W32224; Evans 26668; Hills English Bible in America 47; O'Callaghan 49; Trumbull Connecticut 423; Horne Introduction to the Critical Study & Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures III 54. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked with speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; original leather rubbed edges and corners refurbished. First few leaves institutionally pressure-stamped. Title-page with edges browned and chipped margins repaired with tiny losses to two letters carefully supplied by hand; dedication leaf with repaired tear; last leaf with repaired tear. Pages age-toned with intermittent offsetting and foxing some corners bumped a few edge chips. Frontispiece and pp. 12128 early parts of Mark lacking. A sturdy handsome Bible for family use. Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin hardcover books
172741004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. <br><br>Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
179631848Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. 1796. Folio 42.2 cm 16.7". 748 pp. 2 final ff. of back matter lacking; 18 plts. <br><br>Bible collector's treasure: the first edition of the Berriman Bible. Noted for its excellent illustrations by several contemporary American engravers including Alexander Anderson Cornelius Tiebout Francis Shallus and William Rollinson this large and handsomely produced lectern-sized folio Bible is printed in two columns with sidenotes including scriptural cross-references and a chronology. The plates include scenes of Adam and Eve in paradise frontispiece the Egyptian midwives drowning the Hebrews' infant sons Judas Maccabaeus slaying Apolloninus and Judas betraying Christ with a kiss; the maps show the presumed historical setting of the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land. One plate in this copy "The Parting of Lot and Abraham" is bound in upside-down.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription in upper margin: "Benjamin Morris to Samuel White Sept. 17th 1826" and with tipped-in typed slip noting presentation to a seminary by the Rev. John Cyrus Madden class of 1893 who had received the book from Charles Reifschneider a descendant of White. Spine with gilt-stamped leather label reading "Deborah Morris to" only! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright Early Bibles of America 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506. Early 19th-century mottled sheep covers framed in blind roll spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; scuffed and rubbed gilt now mostly lost front cover with inkstain front joint cracked but holding and back one holed back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut yes cut away and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including bookplate pressure- and rubber-stamps and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate occasional spotting and smudging some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears a few with tears extending into text some with loss of a few letters. Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking one leaf crudely repaired some time ago last leaf tattered; two final leaves last portion of tables section and the subscribers list lacking with scraps of the "Table of Kindred & Affinity" laid in. => Marked by time and use still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition. Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. hardcover books
1743108185Single leaf 7 x 9 1/2â€. Germantown Pennsylvania: Cristoph Haur 1743. Single leaf 7 x 9 1/2†printed in black and red gothic letter. Some damp stains and foxing; good. § Title leaf from the first U.S. printing of Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible completely in German. Cristoph Haur unknown books
1731LV1890Amsterdam:: R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith 1731. 1731. 4to. xii 750 pp. Half title engraved title printer’s device title printed in red and black main body of text printed in double columns separate half-title-page: Davidis Regis et Prophetae Psalmi . . . Z2; Liber Proverbiorum Salomonis Zzz1; upper edge of pp. 242-254 nicked. Some pages misnumbered. Contemporary full calf gilt-stamped spine and red leather spine label 6 raised bands; front cover detached rear cover hanging from 1 cord spine missing pieces – needs rebinding. Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to title-page and following page. As is. This is the final 1731 work of Leclerc’s commentaries on the Bible that began in 1693 with his Book of Genesis being in particular the sections on Jacob Psalms of David Solomon Proverbs etc. "Founding principally on the position that more recent objects are referred to in the Canon than such as were known in the time of Ezra Leclerc was of opinion that the collection of the Canon is due to the zealous endeavours of pious individuals who had preserved the separate parts of it until the reading of the Prophets along with the Law came into use in the age of the Maccabees which rendered the collecting of the whole necessary" Havernick p. 33. Chetham’s Library and the Cambridge copies both have 3 folding plates but no evidence of plates maps in 15 other copies listed on Copac. No plates are in this copy. REFERENCES: BM compact ed. vol. 3 p. 45; Havernick Heinrich Andreas C. A General Historico-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament Tr. by W.L. Alexander Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1852. R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith, 1731. hardcover books
1763WRCAM35899CGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear to edges of first and last few leaves. Some light soiling to text. Contemporary manuscript notations on endpapers. Very good to near fine. In a cloth box gilt leather label. The second edition of the first European language Bible printed in America after the first of 1743. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. <br> <br> A nice copy of an important early American Bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1776WRCAM44241BGermantown: Christoph Saur 1776. 49922773pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Hinges cracked but solid extremities worn. Light foxing and soiling moderate wear to first and last few leaves. Good. In a custom cloth box gilt leather label. The third edition of the first European- language Bible printed in America famously known as the "Gun-Wad Bible" after its use in the American Revolutionary War as cartridge paper during the Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible printed from type cast in America. Reputed to have been printed in an edition of 3000 copies most are said to have been destroyed by the British during the battle. The present edition was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition; the son then printed a second edition in 1763. EVANS 14663. HILDEBURN 3336. SABIN 5194. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1763WRCAM35899AGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Boards scuffed light foxing and dampstaining. Titlepage and first few leaves loose. Family names and dates inscribed on front and rear fly leaves. A few small tears at fore-edge; larger tear in p.274. Typical browning to pages and light edge wear. Overall quite nice in original condition. The second edition of the first European language bible printed in America after the first edition of 1743. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty- fourth edition of the Halle bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg bible. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. <br> <br> A very nice copy of an important early American bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1743WRCAM47841Germantown: Christoph Saur 1743. 49952777pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps. Clasps renewed corners worn head of spine expertly repaired. Contemporary and later manuscript notations on front pastedown and rear flyleaf. Titlepage with neat marginal repairs some light stains. Very good. The first European-language Bible printed in America and the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian bibles of the 1660s. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. Believed to have been printed in an edition of 1200 copies of which slightly over one-tenth are known to have survived. Christoph Saur was a native of Wittgenstein Germany who settled in Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. There are three variant titlepages noted for this work of which this is the second. A landmark in American religious and printing history. DARLOW & MOULE 4240. EVANS 5128. HILDEBURN 804. ARNDT 47. SEIDENSTICKER p.20. ESTC W18551. Christoph Saur hardcover books
176332387Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Thick quarto. 4 992 277 3pp. Printed in two columns. Expert restoration repairing tears with minor losses to OT 2 and A1 and NT A2 and Mm4. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards early marbled endpapers rebacked to style spine with raised bands in six compartments<br/> <br/>The second Saur bible: the second edition of the first bible in a European language to be published in America.<br/> <br/>Sauer's text of the Luther translation was largely based on the Halle Bible but with the addition of the appendix to the Apocrypha with books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg version. When first published in 1743 Saur's bible was the first bible in a European language to be published in America and just the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder.<br/> <br/>Arndt The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 269; Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 9343; Hildeburn 1877; O'Callaghan p. 25; Sabin 5192; Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 28-50. Christoph Saur unknown books
17636390Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. Very Good/Printing a grand bible had been Baskerville's cherished ambition but the royal privilege belonged exclusively to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Consequently Baskerville applied and was elected printer to the University of Cambridge. An innovator a micromanager a workaholic and an exacting perfectionist he threw everything into the bible project. He invented a stiffer blacker ink for it designed the types and the page layout and demanded smoother paper than was generally available. Ultimately he emptied his own bank accounts and borrowed money when the support of subscribers failed. Indeed he was not able to sell the entire edition of 1250 copies and ended up remaindering more than a third of the press run for pence on the guinea to his enormous personal disappointment and financial pain. The book remains a landmark in the history of English printing "one of the most beautiful books printed in the world" according to the bibliographer Frognall Dibdin a sentiment frequently echoed in Great Britain. This copy with the third longest list of subscribers ending with York. . Imperial folio 50 cm; 573 leaves. Text in double columns. In straight-grain blue morocco with gold-tooled border. Rebacked with original gold-tooled spine laid down. All edges gilt. Later reinforcements to joints and hinges. Light foxing on first and last leaves. Old bookplate on pastedown. Extra shipping charges will apply. References: Gaskell "John Baskerville a Bibliography" 26; Rothschild 2640; Darlow & Moule 857. John Baskerville unknown books
1790260927Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West 1790. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Joints a bit tender; tiny chip at tail of spine. A beautiful unrestored copy and with Pierce family inscriptions on the endpapers. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. With unusual ownership painting on the endpaper identifying the Psalms as belonging to Benjamin Pierce's Book 1791 and depicting a man up a tree by way of ladder either to send apples to another man seated below or to read his psalms aloft in peace-- let the viewer be the judge! <br/><br/>The following leaf includes a calligraphic presentation in 1799 to James Pierce who notes its use by "the society in Brattle Square" which we take to mean the then Congregational and later c. 1805-1876 Unitarian Church on Brattle Street in Boston Massachusetts. <br/><br/>The church distinguished itself by its somewhat relaxed attitude toward rigid Calvinist practices and by iits array of important ministers: Benjamin Colman 1699-1747; William Cooper 1716-1743; Samuel Cooper 1747-1783; Peter Thacher 1785-1802; Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1805-1812; Edward Everett 1814-1815; John Gorham Palfrey 1813-1831; and Samuel Kirkland Lothrop 1834-1876. The parishioners were no less esteemed: John Hancock Samuel Adams Joseph Warren John Adams Abigail Adams Richard Clarke Elizabeth Greenleaf Jane Mecom John Lowell Lydia Hancock Henry Cabot Lodge James Bowdoin 1676-1747 and many others. Hans Gram played organ in the late 18th century. The Pierce family's early days in America perhaps coming as early as about 1620 were spent largely in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and their legacy includes Benjamin Pierce governor of New Hampshire 1827-1830 as well as ten generations spent in what is now an historic landmark of seventeenth-century architecture currently serving as a museum in Dorchester Massachusetts. It is difficult to place exactly which Benjamin Pierce and James Pierce this copy belonged to in the large and lively family. Evans 22351 Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West unknown books
176067973Bible in English Complete with the Apocrypha BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His MajestyÃs Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.Price 6s. unbound. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham 1760. Joseph Bentham's Bible. Eight octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 142 mm. Unpaginated. A8-Z8 Aa8-Oo2; E4-I2; Oo3-Zz8 Aaa8-Ddd2; A8-E3 2 blank I3-M8; Eee8-Uuu2 pp. This copy with the price of 6s. printed on title-page and with the Apocrypha. There is another state according to Herbert that is priced 4s. and is wanting the Apocrypha. It is possible that they sold the leaves with and without the Apocrypha thus the difference in price. Because the sheets were sold unbound it is possible that they were issued as parts. 31 leaves from the Apocrypha E4 through I2 are misbound into Volume IV. In their correct spot are bound 2 blank leaves. Old Testament and New Testament have separate title-pages. With a chart page after the Old Testament and after the New Testament. Bible is complete. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled paper boards. Ink title to spine of each volume. Previous owner's bookplate and signature dated 1770 on front pastedown of each volume. Title-page of each volume with some old ink manuscript notes to top margin. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped. Some minor staining and wrinkling to bottom margin of signature Iii. Overall very good or better copy. Just two years after Joseph Bentham published this present copy his Bible of 1762 was marked the "standard edition" according to Darlow & Moule. Herbert 1131. HBS 67973. $2250 Printed by Joseph Bentham hardcover books
179168436Very Rare Early American Edition of a ChildrenÃs Pocket Bible BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Abridged: Or the History of the Old and New Testament. Illustrated with Notes and Adorned with Cuts. For the Use of Children. Two lines from Luke. Boston: Samuel Hall 1791. Early American edition and first Samuel Hall edition second Boston edition. There were only a total of five Children's bibles published in America before 1791. The First American edition was printed in Boston in 1782 by Robert Hodge for N. Coverly followed by a Worcester Massachusetts 1786 edition by Isaiah Thomas 1786 and 1788 Philadelphia editions and a 1790 New York edition. Our present copy was published the year after the New York edition. Thirtytwomo 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 67 mm. 4 vii-ix 8 18-173 1 pp. With frontispiece of Adam and Eve and fifty-nine crude but charming woodcuts illustrations depicting stories from the text meant to appeal to young children. The stories that have been abridged for use in this Bible generally consist of the more well- known stories which would be of interest to children such as Creation Adam & Eve and Jonah and the Whale from the Old Testament as well as the birth baptism and crucifixion of Jesus from the New Testament. Listed in Evans but not in Sabin. We could find no copies of this edition at auction and only one copy found at the Massachusetts Historical Society. All early American editions are rare and only two complete copies of the New York 1790 edition since 1976. There was the 1786 Worcester edition at auction in 2008 but it was incomplete. Contemporary marbled paper over boards repacked with matching paper. Inner hinges strengthened. Bound without endpapers. Some soiling and toning throughout. One leaf page 145 with some fraying to the edges not affecting text. Overall very good particularly for a childrenÃs book. The rarity of this book can somewhat be contributed to its very small size and that it was intended for the use of children. Something as delicate and tiny as this Bible in the hands of a child had little hope for a bright future. ìBy 1789 Bible story collections specifically for children had existed in the mother country for nearly a century an active market in the American colonies had not opened up. Neither American Protestants nor American Catholics of whom were growing in numbers seemed ready to give Bible stories to their children. In the 1780Ãs the American situation changed radically. Boston printers pirated NewberyÃs Holy Bible Abridged; in 1786 the astute Worcester printer Isaiah Thomas followed suit; and by 1815 The Holy Bible Abridged had been printed in urban and provincial print centers all over the America northeast.î The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer Shipton & Mooney 46126 Bristol B7648 Welch D.A. Amer. childrenÃs books 6127 ESTC W1077 Brinley 5815. HBS 68436. $6500 Samuel Hall hardcover books
