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1800328931London: Watts & Bridgewater 1800. hardcover. fine. 16mo contemporary full red leather elaborately gilt on the covers & spine all edges gilt. London: Watts & Bridgewater no date circa 1800. Fine<br/> <br/> Fore-edge painting of a riverside town.<br/> <br/> Watts & Bridgewater unknown
1777254347Dordrecht & Amsterdam New Testament & Psalms 1777. Thick 12mo. Contemporary pebbled morocco a.e.g. gauffered. Inscribed on the ffep "Robert H. Penyn/ from his friend/ J.H. Ten Eyck/Dec. 29 1861. Thick 12mo. unknown
17154383London: Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd 1715 1715. Bound with The Book of Common Prayer London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceased 1709. And with The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins And Others. London: Printed by J. Heptinstall 1717. 8vo. 192x120mm. Unpaginated. Collates as follows: BCP a4 A8-G6. Bible pi1 A8-Z8 As8-Zz8 Aaa8-Zzz8 Aaaa8-Cccc4. Psalms: A4-L4. General title for the Bible dated 1715 with the separate title page for the New Testament dated 1710. Contemporary black morocco decorated with gilt panel with gilt cornerpieces. Spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Extremities and head and foot of spine rubbed and worn and a split to the joint of upper cover at head and foot of spine. Some marking and fading to covers. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally very good but with some waterstaining from Bbbb and Cccc of the New Testament. The front pastedown has the very pretty book label "Martha Manning. Her Book. 1770." It is unclear exactly who this Martha Manning might be but there are two possible candidates. It might be the Martha Manning born in 1750 in Romford Essex who married William Whitford in 1771. A more exotic possibility is the Martha Manning who was the daughter of a William Manning a business associate of Henry Laurens one of the Founding Fathers and slave trader and rice planter. The Mannings had lived in St Kitts where they owned land but by the 1770s they had returned to London. In 1776 Henry Laurens's son John was in London studying law. Secretly he married Martha Manning on October 26. The following year Laurens left London and the pregnant Martha to return to America to fight in the Revolution. There he made his name working alongside Alexander Hamilton as an aide to George Washington. In 1780 Laurens was appointed to be the American special minister to France. Martha travelled to France to find her errant husband but tragically died there without seeing him. In any case this is a charming and beautiful bookplate and rare for it to belong to a woman at a time when few women owned books. This edition appears to be unrecorded in Herbert. The closest is Herbert 933 which has the OT dated 1715 and the NT dated 1712 but our copy has a 1710 NT printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills whose first Bible was in 1710 but was a 12mo with the text ending on S2a whereas this Bible collates continuously throughout the OT and NT. Baskett's name which is on the Old Testament title page does not appear on the New Testament until the 1712 edition and so is absent here. A nice copy of an unrecorded variant. London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and He unknown
177211652Amsterdam Hendrik Brandt Dirk onder de Linden Petrus Schouten en Jan de Groot 1772. Origineel half marokijn Leer met ribben Folio H. 44 x B. 285 x D. 3 cm. Prentbijbel van Ysbrand van Hamelsveld welke bestaat uit een titelpagina register en 126 foliobladen met op elk 2 gravures. De prenten zijn gegraveerd door Jacob Folkema Pieter Tanje en Simon Fokke. In het jaar 1791 werd de prentbijbel uitgegeven met bijgevoegde beschrijvingen door Van Hamelsveld. De prentbijbel wordt vaak naar hem genoemd ook al werkte hij niet mee aan deze eerste uitgave. Contemporary red morocco Leather with 6 raised bands Folio H. 44 x B. 285 x W. 3 cm. The printbible by Ysbrand van Hamelsveld which contains a titlepage index and 126 folio sized leaves with 2 engravings on each. The prints are engraved by Jacob Folkema Pieter Tanje and Simon Fokke. In the year 1791 the printbible was published with accompanying descriptions by Van Hamelsveld. The printbible is often called after him although Van Hamelsveld did not contribute to this first edition. Poortman W.C. 1986. Bijbel en Prent Deel IIa: Boekzaal van Nederlandse Prentbijbels p. 150-151 Amsterdam, Hendrik Brandt, Dirk onder de Linden, Petrus Schouten, en Jan de Groot hardcover
176310588<p>E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus Academiae. Oxonii. 1763. FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. 4to in 2's. 12.2 x 9.7 inches. Half title Title page 415pp. One of 500 copies printed using the fine Baskerville Greek type. A clean and crisp copy in a very good contemporary leather binding of full diced dark brown calf boards with floral gilt roll borders. Professionally re-spined at a later date with a matching coloured Morocco spine ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Board edges ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled. A small patch of rubbing to the front free endpaper and some rubbing and bumping to the edges but overall a very good copy of this beautifully printed book in an attractive 18th century binding.</p> E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus Academiae. Oxonii. 1763 hardcover
17717007CB1771. 2 Bände. Augsburg u. Innsbruck Joseph Wolff 1771. Folio. 4 Bl. XIV S. 1 Bl. 1168 S.; 506 S. 1 Bl. 506 S. 22 Bl. Schweinslederbände der Zeit mit Roll- und Plattenstempelprägung. Mit getilgtem Namenszug auf dem Halbtitelblatt mit Papierverlust. Der vordere fliegende Vorsatz von Band eins fehlt. Drei von 4 Schliessen teilweise ausgerissen. Die Einbände stärker berieben. unknown
17175596BB1717. Chur Andreas Pfeffer 171718. 4°. 14 S. von 20 554 S.; 364 S.; 4 230 S. Lederband d. Zt. über Holzdeckeln mit10 Messingbeschlägen und 1 von 2 Schliessen. Seltene rätoromanische Bibel. Das Titelblatt und 4 Seiten Dedication fehlen als Fotokopien beiliegend. Stärkere Gebrauchsspuren Rücken mit Schadstellen. Eine Metallschliesse fehlt. Das Papier durchgehend gebräunt. unknown
17147139<p>Very Good 1714 Hamburg Germany. The first ever printing of this seminal classic. The first time that Bible stories were printed specifically for children. Thus it was somewhat "cleansed" before publication. One source I found says that the incest and murder committed by David were altered among other things. It is four inches by seven inches and includes 104 plates from engravings 52 in the Old Testament and 52 in the New Testament. There are 400 pages of text plus the eight page introduction. Also all the plates are on unnumbered pages for a total of 512 printed pages. The book is in its original calves leather boards and spine which are still attached but fragile. All pages including all front and rear endpapers are present. The last two plates have been repaired at the edges and several pages inside have edge tears or stains but they are minimal. There is the expected foxing throughout and a former owner name and inscription in pencil at the front and a name alone in pencil at the rear. The leather of the boards and spine are rubbed and worn and partially chipped off at the spine ends. The original black leather spine label with gilt titles is still present. A rare gem the only copy I have ever seen of the original first printing from 1714. Johann Hübner 1668-1731 was a German geographer born in Türchau bei Zittau on May 15 1668. He studied Theology History and Geography in Leipzig from 1689 onwards. From 1691 he was Master and then from 1694 Rector of the Gymansium at Merseburg Martisberg; then from 1711 of the Johanneum College in Hamburg. Hübner worked with Nuremberg mapmaker J B Homann 1663-1724 and English cartographer Jean Palairet 1697-1774. His other published works included Kurze Fragen aus der alten und neuen Geographie Leipzig 1693 and Museum Geographicum Das Ist: In Verzeichnis der besten Land-Charten.nebst einem Vorchlage wie daruas allerhand große und kleine Atlantes können sortiert.</p> Johann Hübner hardcover
1750ABC_46048The Hague 1750. 128mo or possibly 96mo in 4s 4.5 x 3 x 1 cm. Anthoni de Groot and sons Contemporary gold-tooled calf sewn on 2 cords each board with a frame of single fillets with a rozette as centrepiece and a smaller stamp inside each corner each of the 3 spine compartments with 3 concentric circles and a triple fillet above and below altogether 13 impressions of 3 stamps gilt edges. Title page in red and black with a woodcut vignette an open book on a shell with decorations 7 full-page 3.3 x 1.6 cm! woodcuts depicting important scenes from the Bible 1 as frontispiece and 1 opening each of the 5 books and the appendix each book and the appendix with a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments followed by a drop-title in red and ending with a typographic ornament in red as a tailpiece. Set in roman type with incidental italic. 80 pp. First and only Dutch edition deluxe issue with the title page and 12 other pages printed in red and black of De Groots thumb Bible one of the curious miniature books printed in the Netherlands in the mid-18th century in a tiny roman type 37 mm/20 lines or 5.5 point as a curiosity and collectors item or to be used as a Bible in a dollhouse. The text is an abstract or summary of the contents of the Bible in five books and an appendix containing a prayer incipit: The illustrations and ornamental headpieces all in miniature and in the present deluxe issue also the printing in red and black make the book a show piece for the skill of 18th-century Dutch printing enhanced here by the contemporary gold-tooled miniature binding. Abkouda records De Groot offering this edition in five kinds of bindings and unbound at prices ranging from 4 to 30 stuivers so he probably commissioned bindings from several binders. The present copy is probably what he calls a Frans bandje 9 stuivers. We have not identified the bindery of the present copy but its three stamps are: a rozette 14 mm an ornament with a base like a flower bud and a row of 6 dots decreasing in size extending from it 12 x 4 mm and 3 concentric circles 4 mm.The backstrip is damaged with the calf split at the front hinge but the front board is still secured by the sewing supports and the head and foot chipped but otherwise in good condition with the tooling on the spine still clear and the boards in good condition with only a couple tiny scuff marks and a small faint water stain and internally good.l Abkouda Naamregister app. 2 1750 p. 85; Adomeit Thumb bibles C15 32mo; Poortman Bijbel en prentI p. 248 & II p. 281 32mo; STCN 7 copies; Storm van Leeuwen Opmerkelijke boekbanden 93 this ed. in a different binding; Storm van Leeuwen Dutch decorated bookbinding II pp. 76-77 & III items 557-560 on p. 541 64mo; this ed. in a different binding; cf. ; Welsh Bibliogr. of miniature books 998; cf. Louis W. Bondy Miniature books 1981 p. 37 De Groots 1750 French ed.; not in Darlow & Moule; for Anthoni de Groot: Joop W. Koopmans Early modern media and the news in Europe 2018 chapter 7; John A. Lane Early type specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum 2004 pp. 134-135. ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks hardcover
1748elala1540Gorinchem: Nicolaas Goetzee 1748. 1748. 3 Parts in 2 Volumes. folio. ff. 3 pp. viii 19 ff. 1 342 2 151; 2 172 2 77. engraved frontis. by J.Punt after J. de Wit engraved dedication coat of arms by J. v. Schley & 12 double-page engraved maps 3 partly folding. engraved title vignette in Vol. I by J.Punt. titles to New Testament & Apocrypha with woodcut vignettes. woodcut ornaments & initials. text in double columns. contemporary gilt-paneled mottled calf gilt backs joints cracked chipping to extremities & along joints foot of spine of Vol. I renewed head of spine of Vol. II defective some foxing & browning new endleaves in Vol. I. cfDarlow & Moule 3350 quarto format. Hardcover. Gorinchem: Nicolaas Goetzee, 1748. Hardcover
1709TBLBBIBL62<p>Kiel: Printed by Barthold Reuther for the Editor 1709. 1709. thick 4to. first title in Hebrew & Latin. Latin glosses. engraved title/frontis. woodcut ornaments & initial. contemporary calf gilt edges worn head & foot of spine defective some foxing. few old marginal notes. First Edition Edited by Heinrich Opitz 1642-1712 German Orientalist and professor of Greek and of divinity at Kiel. "The editor was as learned as he was pious: and the present unostentatious volume printed with a fine large Hebrew type.was the fruit of thirty years incessant toil in the study and correction of the sacred text. The result was eminently successful; for Opitius is justly classed among the most erudite of Hebraic critics.". Dibdin Darlow & Moule 5142. Dibdin 4th Edn. I pp. 64-65. F. Hardcover.</p> Kiel: Printed by Barthold Reuther for the Editor, 1709. hardcover
175550459<p>An enormous eighteenth-century Johann Caspar Ulrich German Bible printed in Zurich by Conrad Orell und Comp. in 1755. This monumental folio edition represents the Swiss Reformed biblical tradition in German and contains the Old Testament Apocrypha and New Testament together with Ulrich's commentary material. Decorative vignettes and initials appear throughout the text. Particularly desirable is the retention of the original brass board fittings mounted to the modern leather boards. Very Good. Text remains complete across all sections. Modern leather binding is structurally sound with original brass board corners retained; spine features raised bands and internal pages show moderate age toning with intermittent staining consistent with eighteenth-century materials. Folio single volume. Collation: 2 14 292 130; 1 146 182 66 118 1 371 1. Illustrations: decorative vignettes and initials. Edition: 1755 First edition. . #50459. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Conrad Orell und Comp hardcover
1787g4041London: J Cooke. G : in good condition. Cover worn with loss to leather. Front board loose. Worming extinct to prelims. Occasional foxing and marks. 1787. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 390mm x 260mm 15" x 10". 990pp vi plates. 90 b/w plates 18 b/w maps 8 fold-out. . And Containing a Complete Genuine History and Description of the Whole World . with an Account of the Rise Progress and Present State of Navigation throughout the Known World. 2 volumes bouns as 1. William Cooper His Booke. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. . J Cooke hardcover
1724255482London O.T.; Oxford N.T.: Printed by John Baskett . 1724. Additional engraved title-page by Sturt with Imprint "Printed and Sold by Richard Ware at Ye Bible & Sun in Amen Corner"; 200 engravings on 50 plates engraved by J. Cole. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary black gilt-panelled morocco Cambridge style. Covers worn and scuffed lower cover detached; text slightly darkened and well-thumbed but impressve and intact. Additional engraved title-page by Sturt with Imprint "Printed and Sold by Richard Ware at Ye Bible & Sun in Amen Corner"; 200 engravings on 50 plates engraved by J. Cole. 1 vols. 4to. Bound between THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Baskett 1724 with engraved portrait of King George and additional engraved title-page of the series of 200 engravings by J. Cole and THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS Baskett 1724. the latter water-stained toward the rear. Holy Bible: ESTC T89252 Herbert 970; The Historical Part of the Holy Bible: ESTC T94971; Book of Ccommon Prayer: ESTC N32783 Griffiths p.150; The Whole Book of Psalms: ESTC T89253 Printed by John Baskett .. unknown
1790129739London: Printed for J. Harris late Newbery & for Darton & Harvey 'E. Hemsted Printer Great-New-street London' 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London Printed for J. Harris late Newbery & for Darton & Harvey 'E. Hemsted Printer Great-New-street London' circa 1790. A thumb Bible 44 × 32 × 18 mm 254 2 blank colophon pages plus the engraved cumulative title leaf and 14 engraved plates facing pages 18 27 42 50 71 74 86 90 106 111 116 192 199 and 221 with the relevant page number in the top right corner of each plate. 'Publisher's red morocco gilt inlays of black morocco in centre of each cover with cross and initials JHS in gilt within gilt-tooled sun tooling. Elaborate gilt-tooled borders with corner pieces of intertwined arabesques. Gilt-tooled spine flat back in three compartments with egg-shaped tools in each compartment. Gilt edges' Spielmann; the binding is essentially in fine condition with the contents near-fine. Spielmann 18 recording a minor variant printed by 'Darton & Harvey Gracechurch-Street London' with 15 plates: 'Very similar to the Newbery Bible 1780 but with some alterations. The preface for example starts with the words: "It is not a very pleasant reflection" instead of "It is a melancholy reflection". The illustrations based on the same design as the Newbery Bible have been re-engraved and are much better than the Newbery ones both in quality and design'. Bondy page 34. Printed for J. Harris, late Newbery, & for Darton & Harvey ('E. Hemsted, Printer, Great-New-street, London') hardcover
172654199Berlenburg: n.p. 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Six volumes of eight folio published between 1726 and 1737. All volumes with letterpress title page; sectional half titles; woodcut headpieces; engraved frontispiece often not present in first volume. Text in two columns. Contemporary mottled calf rubbed and chafed. Spines with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt gilt morocco and vellum lettering pieces; edges tinted red; marbled endleaves. Spine ends worn. Occasional mild embrowning. A good sturdily bound set with clean crisp text.<br /> <br /> Vol. 1 1726: 12 804 pp; engraved frontispiece - Vol. 2 1728: 8 880 pp. - Vol. 3 1730: 8; 784 pp. - Vol. 4 1732: 6 858 pp. - Vol. 5 1735: 8 820 pp. - Vol. 6 1737: 8 792 pp. <br /> <br /> First edition of this rigorous revision of Luther's version in the spirit of mystical Pietism edited by Johann Heinrich Haug d. 1753 and other scholars as is reflected in the main title: Welchem allem noch untermängt Eine Erklärung die den inneren Zustand des geistlichen Lebens oder die Wege und Wirckungen Gottes in der Seelen zu deren Reinigung Erleuchtung und Vereinigung mit Ihm zu erkennen gibt. Underlying everything is an explanation that reveals the inner state of the spiritual life or the ways and effects of God in in souls for their purification enlightenment and union with Him. A theologian and orientalist Haug was expelled from Strasburg for holding an assembly of Philadelphians and other mystic Separatists. He fled to the castle of Casimir Graf von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berlenburg which had become a refuge for radical pietiests. Remaining there until his death Haug directed a Philadelphian organization that extended throughout western Germany. "He is said to have been a man of great piety and charming personality and was regarded by Count Casimer as a prophet of God" Schaff-Herzog. <br /> <br /> "The new spirit of mystical Pietism. was fully revealed in the Marburg Bible 1712. The interpretation of type and prophecy in this follows the federal theology of Cocceius that of Canticles and Revelation Madame Guyon. It was the forerunner of a larger work in the same spirit the Berleburg Bible of 1726-42. projected and prepared chiefly by Johann Heinrich Haug. The text is a revision of Luther's with comparison of the English and French versions; the commentary reflects the views of the Philadelphian communities and quotes the mystical books current among them especially Madame Guyon's but its teaching goes back beyond Dippel and Petersen to Jakob Böhme or even to Origen in some points. It lacks unity of belief and of treatment; it is the work not of a single mystic giving voice to his inner convictions but of a propagandist sect with radical tendencies. It is not without value however from different points of view; it edifies by its continual application of Scriptural works to the spiritual life and it prepares the way for historical criticism by an appendix containing apocrypha Old and New Testament pseudepigrapha and postapostolic writings." Schaff-Herzog. Christopher Sauer the agent for the sale of the Berlenburg Bible in the United States used the text as a model for the first German-American Bible 1743.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Bookplates of Library of Union Biblical Seminary Bishop Mills Estate; entries at front endleaf "Bequeathed by Bishop J. S. Mills to Bonebrake Seminary. 1909." References: D&M 4239. Jackson S. M. ed. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge 1908 vol. 2 p. 157; vol. 5 p. 170.<br /> <br /> Lacks Volume 7 Epistles to the Hebrews; Jacob; Peter 2; John 3; Judah; Revelation; Wisdom of Solomon; Jesus ben Sirach - Volume 8 Appendix Old and New Testament Apocrypha pseudepigrapha and post-apostolic writings.<br /> <br /> Main title and imprint vol. 1: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments nach dem Grund-Text aufs neue übersehen und übersetzet: Nebst Einiger Erklärung des buchstäblichen Sinnes Wie auch der fürnehmsten Fürbildern und Weissagungen von Christo und seinem Reich und zugleich Einigen Lehren die auf den Zustand der Kirchen in unseren letzten Zeiten gerichtet sind; Welchem allem noch untermängt Eine Erklärung die den inneren Zustand des geistlichen Lebens oder die Wege und Wirckungen GOttes in der Seelen zu deren Reinigung Erleuchtung und Vereinigung mit Ihm zu erkennen gibt. Gedruckt zu Berlenburg im Jahr unsers Erlösers und Ursprungs der heiligen Schrifft JEsu Christi. [n.p.] hardcover
174179120Dordrecht:: Jacob en Hendrik Keur 1741. old full diced and blind-embossed calf over beveled wooden boards with brass corners and one of two brass clasps. . A few old genealogical notes on flyleaves. The text is age-toned; one brass clasp lacking; cracked at joints and chipped at the bottom of the spine;. Folio. Engraved illustrated title page; six folding engraved double-page maps/views and 13 engraved plates. . Jacob en Hendrik Keur, hardcover
175012618Den Haag A. de Groot & Zoonen 1750. 80 p. Origineel Leer goud-op-snede 64° 47 x 31 x 09 cm. Zeldzaam Bijbels miniatuurboekje. De tekst is geïllustreerd met 7 houtgravures. Het bestaat uit vijf hoofdstukken en een aanhangsel waarin een zeer beknopte weergave van hoofdzaken uit zowel het Oude als het Nieuwe Testament wordt gegeven. De fraaie band is gemaakt door de ""Eerste Stadhouderlijke Binderij"". Dit betreft de eerste editie van dit werk uitgegeven door de uitgeverij van de familie De Groot. Van hun drukpers verschenen ook andere uitgaven in miniatuur waarvan dit werk wel een schoolvoorbeeld van het vakmanschap van de firma genoemd mag worden. 80 p. Contemporary Leather binding gilt-edged 64°. H. 1.85 x W. 1.2 x D. 035 inches / 47 x 31 x 09 cm. Rare miniature Bible. The text is illustrated with 7 wood engravings. It consists of five chapters and an appendix in which a very concise presentation of the essentials from both the Old and New Testaments is given. The beautiful binding was made by the ""Eerste Stadhouderlijke Bindererij"". This is the first edition of this work published by the publisher of the De Groot family. Other miniature editions also appeared from their printing press of which this work may well be called a textbook example of the firm's craftsmanship. Den Haag, A. de Groot & Zoonen hardcover
1791173282Edinburgh: Mark and Charles Kerr 1791. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name emblazoned on front panel personalization on FEP bleeds through to 2nd FEP. Both hinges cracked binding remains reasonably tight. 1/ inch open tear at top of both gutters and bottom of front gutter. Rubbing along panel edges. Foxing along last 2 end pages. Pages pliable and fairly unmarked considering age.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mark and Charles Kerr hardcover
172749773Oxford: John Basket 1727. Hardcover. Folio. Modern rebind in black leatherette with gilt spine lettering and new endpapers. Unpaginated. Two engraved frontispieces historiated initials two small engravings single large foldout map "Map shewing ye Situation of Paradice". Modern rebind is pristine and tight; text block very good overall with only the first few and last few leaves a tad edgeworn and age toned else remainder quite bright and clean with only very occasional touches of foxing and occasional discreet vintage mends; small chip to lower corner of first frontispiece not touching image; map shows paper loss along right and bottom portions the whole neatly remounted to full-size sheet. Attractive early printing of this Oxford Bible first produced by the King's Printer Baskett in 1716 and whose son Thomas later produced them mid-century -- not a so-called "Vinegar Bible" the famous typographical error in Luke XX noting the "parable of the vinegar" corrected here to "vineyard." Other than "To the Most High and Might Prince James" opening single leaf the "Translouters to the Reader" section addressing the editions consulted and the entire text that follows is done in two-column format. The Old Testament and Apocrypha are followed by the sectional title page and frontispiece for the New Testament concluding with a lengthy index and foldout map. Inner flyleaf bears 18th century ownership signature of "Tomas Hawkes / His Book." A lovely handleable copy of this large lectern Bible hence " Appointed to be Read in Churches". Interestingly laid loose into this copy is a quite lovely unsigned 9" X 13½" ink-and-wash drawing of a small cottage on a hillside in the foreground with rolling countryside in the distance along with other ephemeral fragments used as place markers in this Bible: an 1849 receipt from draper and grocer John Sneath of Wragby England and several odd scraps torn from books and a newspaper ten pages from a tiny hymnal and portions of a letterhead and invitation. DARLOW AND MOULE 982. John Basket hardcover
176219706Cambridge: Joseph Bentham. 1762. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Bound in full calf with five raised bands edges rubbed contents very good clean and tight. The Bentham Bible of 1762 helped establish the standard text of the King James Bible which is still in wide use today. Bentham was a printer for the University of Cambridge and he used the Parris text to correct text refine marginal notes and most importantly bring the language into the modern world.; 11" x 9" x 4" . Joseph Bentham hardcover
17277348Oxford; Printed by John Baskett 1727. 1727 4to. Unpaginated. There is a portrait facing the title of the Common Prayer. The Cole title is bound before the general title to the Bible and 204 plates on 51 leaves are inserted in the appropriate places through the biblical text. Later black calf binding the boards panelled with gilt rolls and corner tools. The spine with raised bands and gilt pallets. Rubbed on the edges and corners and an old damp mark at the top of the rear board not visible on the text leaves. Marbled endpapers. Occasional headlines or catchwords trimmed by the binder. The paper shows spotting or toning as the sheets vary through the volume. There is a specially printed presentation leaf bound before the Common Prayer 'The GIFT of Mr. James Hudsonto His Godson JAMES CRISP.April 16. MDCCXXIX.' and two sheets of genealogical information at the end of the volume much of it concerning a related family named Agg. A handsome example of an extra-illustrated Georgian King James Bible. Oxford; Printed by John Baskett, hardcover
170211796Amsterdam Pieter Mortier 1703/1702. 2 delen in 1 band titelprent 22 315 titelprent 16 202 12 p. Origineel blind-gestempeld Perkament Folio De band is gevlekt twee pagina's in de ondermarge met een scheurtje. Voor- en achterin in de zijmarges enkele vochtvlekken verder een goed exemplaar met zeer scherpe gravures. De Kleine Mortierbijbel een prentbijbel genoemd naar de uitgever Pieter Mortier. Het werk bestaat uit bijbelse geschiedenissen uit zowel het Oude als Nieuwe Testament en de Apocriefen beschreven door de franse theoloog David Martin 1639-1721. Geïllustreerd met 2 titelprenten 234 gravures in de tekst en 29 ovalen vignetten. De gravures zijn van de hand van diverse kunstenaars waaronder Jan Luyken Jan Goeree Bernard Picart en Gerard Hoet. De ovale vignetten zijn allemaal van den hand van Jan Luyken. The so- called ""Small Print Bible of Mortier"" contemporary vellum Folio H. 345 x W. 225 x D. 6 cm. The binding is stained spine repaired two pages in the bottom margin with a tear. Front and back of the book the margins are slightly stained otherwise a good copy with extremely sharp engravings. The work consists of biblical histories from both the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha described by the French theologian David Martin 1639-1721. Illustrated with 2 title prints 234 engravings in the text and 29 oval vignettes. The engravings are by various artists including Jan Luyken Jan Goeree Bernard Picart and Gerard Hoet. The oval vignettes are all by Jan Luyken. Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier hardcover
177653321Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1776. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes folio published in 1776 and 1780. xxiii title and subscribers' list 1 blank VIII preface 684 1 catalogue of manuscripts 1 blank; 4 title and subscribers' list 732 129 1 blank 6 indicespp. Expertly rebound in modern quarter vellum over marbled boards spines titled in gilt. Titles darkened and dusty; very occasional light foxing or oxidation spots; dampstain at bottom quarter of the first twenty and final four leaves in the first volume else a nearly fine wide-margined set crisp and uncut.<br /> <br /> First edition and the "earliest attempt to provide a critical edition of the Hebrew Scriptures on a large scale†D&M and a notable early example of a large-scale scholarly project which attracted international financial and scholarly support. The biblical scholar Benjamin Kennicott 1718-1783 was educated at Oxford and "instructed in Hebrew by Professor Thomas Hunt and the greater part of his life was spent in the collation of Hebrew manuscripts with the object of producing a definitive original text of the Old Testament. Robert Lowth always his major patron first inspired him with a desire to test the accuracy of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. With his formidable knowledge of Syriac early Latin the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch it was recognized that he was very well qualified for the task. His critical examination of manuscripts initially in the British Museum and the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge began in 1751 and when Thomas Secker then bishop of Oxford and also a member of Exeter College urged him in March 1758 to undertake their collation he agreed to the request. In return Secker when archbishop of Canterbury gave Kennicott his unstinting support and friendship when for a time he nurtured a project for producing a revised Authorized Version of the Bible. Meanwhile in 1753 Kennicott issued The State of the Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament Considered: a Dissertation and in 1759 he brought out a second dissertation on the same subject. He identified his object thus: to compare Scripture with itself to explain a difficult phrase or passage by a clear one that bears some relation to it to consider the natural force of the Original Words the tendency of the Context and the Design of the Writer; to compare the most ancient editions of the Original with one another and with the best copies of the most celebrated versions vol.1 p.12. These volumes were translated into Latin by W. A. Teller and published at Leipzig the first in 1756 the second with additions in 1765.<br /> <br /> Kennicott's scholarly endeavours attracted support in Britain and beyond. In England subscriptions amounted to £9119 7s. 6d.; in France the duc de Nivernois a former French ambassador to the court of St James patronized him and helped him to gain access to Parisian manuscript collections in 1767; the king of Denmark offered him the use of six ancient manuscripts; four quarto volumes of variant readings were sent to him on the king of Sardinia's orders; and the stadholder of the Netherlands made an annual donation of 30 guineas. His first report On the Collation of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament was forwarded to the subscribers in December 1760 and a similar statement appeared each year until 1769. This annual summary afforded him an opportunity to defend the accuracy of his own collations the Hebraic scholarship of the staff assisting him and to print lists of subscribers. A copy of the entire work was personally presented by Kennicott to George III. Lowth called the 1776 variorum Old Testament 'a work the greatest and most important that has been undertaken and accomplished since the Revolution of Letters' B. Hepworth Robert Lowth p. 145" Nigel Aston ODNB. An early judgement on this seminal edition is provided by William Orme in his 1824 Bibliotheca Biblica: “This is beyond all comparison the most splendid edition of the Hebrew Scriptures ever published. It was patronized by most of the crowned heads of Europe. It occupied its learned editor in preparation or actual labour more than thirty years. More than six hundred MSS. and editions were collated for it in all parts of Europe. The text is that of Vander Hooght without the points. The Samaritan Pentateuch where it differs from the Hebrew text is printed in parallel columns in the Hebrew character. The various readings are almost innumerable and occupy in general the largest half of every page. The Dissertatio Generalis annexed to the second volume is invaluable for the information which it contains respecting the state of the original text and the sound principles of criticism which it exhibits." The final leaf lists 312 manuscripts and some printed editions which provided the various readings noted throughout the apparatus. The concluding Dissertatio Generalis was republished separately at Braunschweig in 1783 by professor Paul Jakob Bruns who assisted Kennicott in his collations.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the Parochial Library of St Phillips Birmingham in the County of Warwick at front endleaf in both volumes. References: N. Aston "Benjamin Kennicott" in: ODNB. Darlow & Moule 5160. ESTC T147508. Orme Bibl. Biblica 238. For a notable recent discussion see J. Turner Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Princeton Univ. Press 2014 77f. An earlier assessment of the critical endeavors of Kennicott and De Rossi appears in N. P. Wiseman's 1836 Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion pp.368-371 ed. Dublin 1866. The Clarendon Press hardcover
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