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183715822Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1837. 4to 28 cm 11". Frontis. 768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â The New Testament here has a separate title-page and the volume is llustrated with 10 wood engraved plates including two frontispieces. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 972. Contemporary sheep gilt-lettered on the spine. Binding rubbed with abrasions along edges and joints spine pulled at head. Ex-library with white-lettered shelf number on spine. Light foxing. One plate with tear from bottom edge not intruding upon illustration. Small hole to one leaf with loss of several letters of marginal notes. H. & E. Phinney unknown books
04269Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. A Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century Book of Common Prayer<br/><br/>BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making ordaining and consecrating of bishops priests and deacons. Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839.<br/><br/>Sixteenmo 3 1/2 x 2 inches; 89 x 51 mm. Unpaginated. <br/><br/>Contemporary full purple morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind spine with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins yellow coated end-papers all edges gilt. Neat early ink inscription on front blank. A fine example. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by S. Collingwood and Co..., 1839 unknown books
1815246649Boston: Nathaniel Willis 1815. Illustrated with woodcuts. 254 pp. 50 x 30 mm. Bound in contemporary calf "Bible" stamped in gilt on spine about fine. Illustrated with woodcuts. 254 pp. 50 x 30 mm. Adomeit A33; Shaw & Shoemaker 34916; Welch 860.3 Nathaniel Willis unknown books
2220Philadelphia; 1845-46: Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. With marginal readings together with a copious and original selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages exhibited in a manner hitherto unattempted. Engraved half-title 2 title pages 2 frontispieces illustrated with 6 mapssome folding 7 engravings and 1 folding chart all bound in original green morocco elaborately decorated in gilt raised bands with compartments gilt decorated yellow endpapers all edges gilt. A lovely little copy showing on very minor spots of rubbing to joints and edges and a few ocassional spots of foxing contemporary owner's name. <br/><br/> Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle hardcover books
08298London c. 1880: Cassell Petter and Galpin. Full Leather. Very Good. Large Quarto. A very good copy bound in full black leather with raised bands spine gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt decoration covers gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt three ribbon bookmarks. Illustrated with more than nine hundred highly finished engravings. Family Register Births Marriages and Deaths are blank. Mild fading to gilt covers Gift inscription ffep. A nice family bible. <br/><br/> Cassell, Petter and Galpin hardcover books
17113862Amsterdam: Ex Officina Westeniana 1711. Sm. 8vo. 8856038pp. Double column text. Greek and Latin title page printed in red & black. Illus. with an added engraved title mounted 2 engraved folding ground plans and an engraved folding map. The title map & ground plans have been backed with a few added color printed illustrations on the blank versos. 19th century blind tooled calf. The endpapers are browned. Some marginal text notations. Ex Officina Westeniana unknown books
185940310New York: American Bible Society 1859. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary American green gilt extra morocco a.e.g. Fine smalkl snag at head of spine. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. American Bible Society unknown books
1611108233Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11â€. London: Robert Barker 1611. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11†printed on both recto and verso in two columns with woodcut initials. Foxing to outer margins top-edge has some tears and curling; good. § From either the first or second state of the first edition. Ecclesiasticus: 27:1-30 28: 1-26 29:1-6. Robert Barker unknown books
181419820Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1814. 2 vols. in 1. 4to 24.1 cm 9.5". 441 160 ff. <br><br>Early American printing of this popular commentary originally published in several years worth of weekly portions. The text is that of the King James Bible and is supplemented by extensive notes from Thomas Scott one of the founding members of the Church Missionary Society. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 259; Shaw & Shoemaker 30867. Contemporary treed sheep spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding rubbed front joint cracked back joint starting from top spine extremities chipped. Front pastedown with private collectors small bookplate title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Pages age-toned. William W. Woodward hardcover books
180323697Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 pp. 1 subscriber's list f. <br><br>Translated by Thomas Williams. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Publisher's sheep scuffed and rubbed from age; respined with brown cloth tape and original label laid back on. Two leaves one the half-title separated from spine but present; ex-library with attractive old bookplate old stamp to title-page and half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Worth having. William W. Woodward hardcover books
18234731Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless 1823. 4to 29.5 cm 11.5". 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-4 6 5-570 frontis. 2 573-748 749-770 18 54 2 blank pp.; 10 plts. including 2 frontispieces and 8 full-page engravings. <br><br>Large thick quarto Bible. "Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page. No date stated. O'Callaghan says that "The first edition of this Bible was printed in 1823. The stereotype plates of the Old Testament were cast by Elihu White of New York; those of the New by B. & J. Collins. Kimber and Sharpless continued the publication of large and numerous editions until 1844 when they sold the plates to Jasper Harding."<br>Â Â Â Â Contents include general title-page a note to the reader order of books contents of the Old and New Testaments Old Testament New Testament title-page New Testament Index and Tables Psalms of David and "A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments." by John Brown. With two frontispieces and 8 additional full-page historical engravings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 20th century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Ownership inscription dated 1889 on blank side of first frontispiece. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 460; O'Callaghan 161-162; Shaw & Shoemaker 11824. Contemporary sheep with four raised bands accented in gilt and forming compartments. The second compartment bears a red morocco label and "Holy Bible" stamped on it in gilt. Binding a bit rubbed front joint opening a bit about 1" at top. Foxed as expectable. Long tear to pp. 401-402 without loss of text but definitely affecting it. Evidence of two leaves of family records between the Old and New Testaments having been torn out. Most of the pages of John Brown's Concordance are waterstained in margins. Red silk bookmark laid in. Complete. Kimber and Sharpless hardcover books
18417995Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1841. 4to 28.7 cm 11.3". Frontis. 576 4 99 3 579768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â This edition has the Apocrypha added and 11 woodcut plates in total; the New Testament has a separate title-page. The family record leaves here are mostly unused but bear a few names with dates from 1845 through 1899.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of 20th-century collector Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 1100. Binding see: Wolf From Gothic Windows to Peacocks 126. Contemporary goat embossed in arabesque patterns over a diapered background with central diamond-shaped medallion spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and compartments gilt extra; worn and abraded with portion of front cover faded leather rubbed over joints and extremities spine leather cracking. Hinges tender. Front free endpaper lacking frontispiece recto used for pencilled list of names one plate with inked notation on verso and another with pencilled ones. One other plate with pencilled notes in margins and pencil and ink markings throughout text. Some leaves browned. H. & E. Phinney hardcover books
1822217373Hartford: Oliver D. Crooke and Sons 1822. 369 pp in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree sheep black morocco label. some minor wear at edges else a lovely copy with an early ownership inscription "Moses P. Payson's Haverhill Academy 1825" on the first blank. 369 pp in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Chronologically this is the tenth Greek New Testament issued in America but it is the first to use the standard 1550 Stephanus text and it became widely used in America. "Wilson's New testament had an enormous circulation and is still in 1883 in use by very many Probably no edition was more commonly used by the mass of clergymen and students from 1823 to 1840." - Hall CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN AMERICA. No less than 15 different editions were issued from 1822 to 1880. Oliver D. Crooke and Sons unknown books
184420104Calcutta: Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society at the Baptist Mission Press 1844. 12mo. 53 pp. <br><br>Third edition; translated from the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries. Title-page in Bengali and English but text solely in Bengali. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covers light boards. Front cover with printed paper title-label; one area of abrasion to front cover and another to back. Institutional bookplates on pastedowns. Clean copy. Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press hardcover books
181319401New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood 1813. Second Wood edition. A trifle foxed; some light rubbing; a handsome copy in very good condition. 32mo 2.06 x 1.31 inches original green morocco spine stamped in gilt boards ruled in gilt 254 pages. Frontis illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A26: "Illustrations as in A17 Wood 1811 but type reset. Printed and Sold by S. Wood, unknown books
192521279Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown morocco spine blue boards backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. Rooke Noel. 43 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Presentation copy "Mabel Gill from her husband Evan R. Gill April 29th 1926" in black and red ink. Limited edition copy 188 of 370 printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper in Caslon O.F. The text taken from Barker's quarto edition of the Authoriized Version of 1612. Wood engravings by Noel Roarke who made a major contribution to the revival of British wood engraving in the twentieth century. Rooke was employed by William Lethaby his first class of seven students included Rooke Eric Gill Graily Hewitt T.J. Cobden Sanderson. CHANTICLEER 32. Laid-in an extract from the London Mercury by B.H.Newdigate and hinged at back cover obituary of Noel Rooke The Times of London October 7 1953. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1814010430London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1814. Thick Octavo. The first Welsh Bible printed at London for the British Foreign Bible Society 2pp 9571pp. and 320 pp. Also this edition was printed in larger type with double columns and chapter headings. Tables of measures are on p. 959 at the end of the Old Testament; New testament title page dated 1814 and p. 320 has a table of offices at the end of the New Testament. Both of course are in Welsh. In this edition T. Charles corrected the text of 1809 edition. It was completed just two days before the editor's death on October 5 1814. This copy notes in small print that it was available at L.B. Seeley 169 Fleet Street. Genealogical notes of Jane Morgan Jane Davis and her siblings continuing to her death in 1843. Bound in full blind stamped calf beautifully rebacked with matching dark brown leather and red morocco spine abel gilt end papers renewed. The original boards have the initials and logo of the B.F.B.S. A very good copy with some scattered foxing or toning. . Darlow & Moule II 1675. 957. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
1781886031781. BIBLE -- GERMAN. DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS IM AUSZUG SAMT DEM GANZEM NEUEN TESTAMENT im Auszug samt dem ganzen neuen Testament nach Luthers Uebersetzung mit Anmerkungen von Georg Friedrich Seiler. Andre auflage. Erlangen in der Expedition der Bibelanstalt 1781. The Old Testament is in two parts followed by Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament all edited by Georg Friedrich Seiler with his notes and bound together in one volume. Separate title-pages and pagination for each section. xvi496495-590 i.e.592408 ii678 8 pp. Octavo 17.5 x 10 cm in a contemporary black leather binding with restrained gilt-stamped decoration red paste paper endpapers all edged gilt and gauffered. Some errors in pagination else nicely printed and clean in a lovely contemporary binding. unknown books
1898301607Jelgawâ Mitau: J.W. Steffenhagena 1898. 16 frontispiece and family record pages vi 1120; iv 314 2 16 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary sheep cover with blind-ruled borders spine titled and decorated in gilt clasps. Covers rubbed gilt faded dampstain to lower margin of preliminaries paper toned and brittle with a some closed tears at margins. 16 frontispiece and family record pages vi 1120; iv 314 2 16 pp. 1 vols. 4to. OCLC: 1438105 1 copy Harvard University Divinity School; Darlow & Moule 6347 J.W. Steffenhagena unknown books
180138808London: Printed for J. Wallis . by J. Cundee 1801. Near miniature 9.6 cm 3.75". Frontis. 32 32 pp. <br><br>Here for the young audience is a small volume composed of one-page or slightly longer synopses of the various books of the Bible. The volume begins with a fine metal-engraved frontispiece.<br>Â Â Â Â The book was also issued in the same year as vol. 6 of Wallis' ten-volume Book-Case of Knowledge.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership NN CtNlC NNPM NjP. Original green papercovered boards front with printed paper label; spine slightly sunned and rubbed. Pages clean and fresh. Printed for J. Wallis ... by J. Cundee hardcover books
1815255839Boston: Printed by Nathaniel Willis 1815. Fromntispiece 15 woodcut illustrations in text. 254 pp. 1 vols. Miniature 2 x 1-1/4 inches. Contemporary calf. Worn spine ends defective. Owner signature of Charlotte R. Chapin Springfield on verso of title. Fromntispiece 15 woodcut illustrations in text. 254 pp. 1 vols. Miniature 2 x 1-1/4 inches. Welch 860.3 "American variant of English version 2 no. 855; Adomeit A33; Shaw & Shoemaker 34916; not in Bondy but cf. pp. 37-38 other eds. Printed by Nathaniel Willis unknown books
1901307515Glasgow: David Bryce and Son; and London: Henry Frowde 1901. Frontispiece and full page illustrations. 4 876 pp. Printed in 2 columns. 45 x 30 mm. Original patterned brown morocco magnifier in pocket at back. Covers starting still a nice example. in JCB folder. Frontispiece and full page illustrations. 4 876 pp. Printed in 2 columns. 45 x 30 mm. The smallest printed bible. Bryce's famous miniature bible originally published in 1896 at the time the smallest complete bible ever printed. The license reproduced in facsimile on the verso of the title page is dated 1901. Spielmann 24 David Bryce and Son; and London: Henry Frowde unknown books
155766WORCESTER THOMAS JR 1798. FULL CONTEMPORARY BROWN CALF FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. WORCESTER, THOMAS, JR, 1798 unknown books
1950300658New York Family Circle ca. 1950. 1950. Family Circle edition. Small 4to. Illustrations; maps. Original limp black leatherette wallet edges a.e.g. Very good. With a presentation inscription to director Frank Capra from Jim and Lena Phelps 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, Family Circle, ca. 1950. hardcover books
1996D15754Augsburg: Pattloch Verlag 1996. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition. Thick 4to. 14 1184 4 353 1 39 9pp. Original decorative full leather binding with gilt foil and engraved relief gilt design. All edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Limitation and title page signed by the artist. Fine modern press edition of the Bible with text in German. Illustrated with 80 full page color plates by Ernst Fuchs an Austrian renaissance man of sorts known principally for his artwork within the school of Fantastic Realism. Bible is housed in the original folding box and carton slipcase. Fresh copy. <br/><br/> Pattloch Verlag hardcover books