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1663WRCAM54459Cambridge Ma.: Samuel Green 1663. Single leaf 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Small quarto. Minor staining and toning. Good margins. Very good. A leaf from the first edition of the Eliot Indian Bible MAMUSSE WUNNEETUPANATAMWE UP- BIBLIUM GOD. printed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1663. This was the first bible printed in North America and the first bible in an American Indian language. The printing of this bible was a monumental undertaking and it took more than two and a half years to set the type and print the work. <br> <br> A keen artifact from the "first Bible printed in the New World and the first example in history of the translation and printing of the entire Bible in a new language Massachuset as a means of evangelism" Pilling. EVANS 72. FIELD 495. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MASSACHUSETTS 1. CHURCH 580. DARLOW & MOULE 6737. PILLING ALGONQUIAN pp.139-52. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 142. SABIN 22154 22155. SIEBERT SALE 490. WING B2755. ESTC W38287. Samuel Green unknown books
1630310457London: Robert Barker and John Bill N.T. Bonham Norton and John Bill 1630. Wisdom xix 22: "neither didst thou. Double-page map engraved genealogies. General and New Testament titles within historiated woodcut border. Printed in two columns in black letter; Book of Common Prayer and Genealogies bound before Bible. 4to. Contemporary calf rebacked. Bible lacking 3 leaves Whole Book of Psalmes lacking 3 leaves old dampstaining throughout most pronounced at beginning and end some occasional marginal losses resulting in loss of a few lines of text to four or five leaves margins of H6 trimmed with loss of shoulder notes Booke of Common Prayer without front matter. Wisdom xix 22: "neither didst thou." Double-page map engraved genealogies. General and New Testament titles within historiated woodcut border. Printed in two columns in black letter; Book of Common Prayer and Genealogies bound before Bible. 4to. The King James version in quarto printed in black letter. With a double-page map and engraved genealogies. Darlow and Moule 328; Herbert 429; STC 2nd ed. 2289.5 Robert Barker and John Bill [N.T. Bonham Norton and John Bill] unknown books
166534786Cantabrigiae: Excusum per Joannem Field 1665. 12mo 14 cm 5.5". 1 f. 19 1 755 i.e. 767 1 516 pp. without the initial blank. <br><br>The second English edition of the Septuagint. There are different issues: This a copy of the one with the third word of the Greek title readiing "Diathche" and not "Diathke" and with the printer's device showing the man holding the sun in his left hand. Thus this is Darlow and Moule issue "B." => Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of one of the issues of this edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Manuscript ownership inscription of John Ray dated 1716 on retained fly-leaf; ownership signature of Robert L. Wilson New York 1818 on title-page; gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson dated 1829. Later in the Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: American binding of dark blue goat richly gilt with wide floral border on covers and spine distinctively gilt using rules and floral roll. Board edges with a gilt roll; turn-ins gilt tooled. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson as above. Unsigned.<br>Â Â Â Â Barzillai Slosson may have been related to the lawyer of the same name who was active in Kent CT at the end of the 18th century and into the fourth decade of the 19th whose account books are in the Yale Law Library; perhaps the Barzillai who graduated from Columbia College in 1818 and later moved to Geneva NY where he was active and successful in business and civic affairs. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. ed. B2719. Darlow & Moule; 4702; ESTC R236848; Sowerby Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson 1473. Binding as above lightly rubbed. Pages closely cropped in the 19th-century rebinding and some initial or final letters touched or lost. Very good. Excusum per Joannem Field unknown books
200835166Litchfield Park AZ: Bible Museum 2008. Folio. Unpaginated. <br><br>A 400th anniversary edition of the King James Bible being an accurate complete full-size facsimile of the "Great He" Bible. This copy is one of 1000 designated "The Subscriber's" version with => two original leaves from the 1611 printing one from the Old Testament leaf Fff2 Psalms 88:6 through 90:5 and one from the New leaf K3 John 8:39 through 9:41. Both leaves are in excellent condition.<br>Â Â Â Â This book is very large and extremely heavy and will require considerable extra shipping charges. Bound in full brown leather and in an open-back slipcase. As new. Bible Museum hardcover books
176300008790Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Second edition. Hardcover. Fair. Large 4to. 5-992 3 4-277 1 pp. Printed in German Gothic type. Full leather calf spine in six compartments two metal clasps remain on the front board volume lacks the straps and the clasps on the rear board. Based on Martin Luther's 34th Halle edition of the Bible. Includes the Old and New Testament the Psalms Apocryphal Books 3 and 4 Books 1 and 2 of Ezra and Book 3 of Maccabees from the Berleburg Bible. ADNB "Sower Christopher September 1721-26 August 1784". Evans Vol 3. 9343. Hildeburn 382. Strand Kenneth "Saur German Bibles" Andrews University Studies Spring/Summer 1994 Vol. 32 Nos. 1-2 57-106.The second edition printed by Christopher Saur II the first edition having been published in 1743. Saur's family immigrated to Pennsylvania from Westphalia in 1724. Saur and his father advocated for Quaker causes via their printing activities in Pennsylvania. Saur was in charge of the bindery and of English language publications at his father's business. After his father's death Saur II continued to publish their newspaper their almanacs and their religious books bibles and hymnals etc. In 1773 Saur the II established a paper mill on the Schuylkill River which would greatly increase his wealth and standing in British America. However because of his later reluctance to participate in the American Revolution due to his Quaker beliefs Saur would have his house and properties sold off and died poor. This is the first Bible printed in any European language in the Continental United States. The 1763 edition eliminated Saur I's postface and included a new Foreword. 2000 copies of this second edition were printed. A Fair only example with significant loss to the spine and leather on the boards exposing the gatherings and the wood of the boards; lacks the first title page the free front endpaper the foreword the table of contents and the first page of the Old Testament; leaves show some dampstains and a few tiny tears. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1846310453New York: Harper & Brothers 1846. First book edition first issued in parts. Engraved presentation leaf engraved main title and engraved New Testament title printed in red contents leaf printed in blue printed and engraved main title printed in sepia 2 frontispieces text in triple column the middle column narrow with notations and glosses; numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout; without the 2 half-titles and without marriages births and deaths pages. Large thick 4to. Modern full morocco. Some scattered browning and spotting occasional short marginal tears some scratches to binding. Hills 1161; Hamilton 198; Herbert 1860; see also Exman The House of Harper pp. 34-35 and Weitenkampf American Graphic Art. First book edition first issued in parts. Engraved presentation leaf engraved main title and engraved New Testament title printed in red contents leaf printed in blue printed and engraved main title printed in sepia 2 frontispieces text in triple column the middle column narrow with notations and glosses; numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout; without the 2 half-titles and without marriages births and deaths pages. Large thick 4to. Harper Illuminated Bible. "This Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place and retains its importance in the annals of American book-making. W.J. Linton noted wood-engraver and author knew 'no other book like this so good so perfect in all it undertakes.' The illustrations are like paintings of history as are so many of the old European Biblical painting and illustrations" Hills quoting Frank Weitenkampf.<br/>"Drawing engraving and printing were all marvels at the time of this book's production; and it well deserved the popularity it immediately obtained." Hamilton quoting Linton.<br/>Herbert 1860: "This elaborate Bible was issued in parts from 1843 onwards. Many of the illustrations were made from woodcuts by the electrotype process the first in America."<br/>Weitenkampf: "The first notable American effort to produce a richly illustrated book.". Harper & Brothers unknown books
1683310465London: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Churchyard at whose said shop Bibles testaments and Common Prayers in all volumes are to be sold that are printed at the Theatre in Oxford 1683. Engraved title from another copy loosely inserted and 159 of 163 copper-engraved plates. Frontispiece portrait of Charles II from printed bible without letterpress general title; separate letterpress title for New Testament dated 1683; index at end. 4to. Contemporary paneled calf hinges restored. Occasional edge-tears dedication trimmed a few plates repaired but overall very good binding scuffed. Engraved title from another copy loosely inserted and 159 of 163 copper-engraved plates. Frontispiece portrait of Charles II from printed bible without letterpress general title; separate letterpress title for New Testament dated 1683; index at end. 4to. Illustrations for the King James Bible. A suite of finely engraved plates illustrating key scenes in the bible with English language captions. The set was sold separately to be interleaved with print editions of the King James bible as here and is typically found with a few plates missing. The printed bible is comprised of the Old and New Testament without Apocrypha; the imprint on the letterpress title for the New Testament reads Oxford: printed at the Theater and to be sold by Moses Pitt . Peter Parker . Thomas Guy 1683. The set of engravings is uncommon in the market. Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Churchyard at whose said shop Bibles testaments and Common Prayers in all volum unknown books
1609301886Venezia: Antonio Pinelli 1609. Engraved title pages in red and black; text in four columns 24-1102 2 ; 8-674-2 p. ; 8-326-34 p. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary pigskin with ms. lettering on spine. Covers a bit soiled but binding is solid and text near immaculate. Handsome copy ex-library deaccessioned in 1873 from a library in Bologna with occasional stamps. Engraved title pages in red and black; text in four columns 24-1102 2 ; 8-674-2 p. ; 8-326-34 p. 2 vols. Folio. A gathering of Latin translations: The Vulgate printed after an edition printed in Antwerp in 1605; the translation from the Hebrew by St. Pagnini after the Lyon edition of 1528; and the Septuagint after the edition of Rome 1508.<br/><br/>Scarce in institutions: OCLC locates 3 copies in Italy 2 in France 1 in Switzerland and none in Great Britain or the United States. Not in Darlow and Moule; OCLC 800915086 Antonio Pinelli unknown books
1638254393Genève: Pierre Aubert 1638. First edition of the New Testament translated into modern Greek. Bilingual text Koiné and Modern Greek in two columns. 24 452; 1-314 2 ff. Volume II: leaf 4a2 i.e. 278 largely torn away and with two later blank leaves inserted 4a3 i.e. 279 defective at lower gutter with some narrow loss of text. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf rebacked with much of the original gilt backstrip and labels laid down gilt monogram on boards marbled endsheets. Woodcut device on title-page woodcut initials and head and tail pieces. Calf treated at some point early on with a darkening agent bookplates and blindstamps in corner of each title of the "Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History" irrelevant bookseller's description pasted to front endpaper of first volume. I:4 shows a quarter sized ink spot with smaller droplets and a discoloration to fore-margin occasional light marginal discolorations elsewhere a few signatures a bit tanned; still very good. Volume II: intermittent damp staining from 4b1 through end some worming from 4c1 through end often costing several letters or words per leaf; just a flawed companion to the former volume. First edition of the New Testament translated into modern Greek. Bilingual text Koiné and Modern Greek in two columns. 24 452; 1-314 2 ff. Volume II: leaf 4a2 i.e. 278 largely torn away and with two later blank leaves inserted 4a3 i.e. 279 defective at lower gutter with some narrow loss of text. 2 vols. 4to. First Edition of the New Testament in Modern Greek. First edition of the New Testament translated into modern Greek. An important and attractive publication sponsored by the States General of Holland to foster amity between the Greek and Reformed Churches. The modern Greek was prepared by the monk Maximus of Gallipoli and the edition was authorized by the Patriarch of Constantinople Cyril Lucarius who contributed a Preface. The edition is reported to have consisted of some 1500 copies. The rationale behind the preparation of this text was much the same as the impetus leading to the publication by Elzevier of a modern Greek translation of the Dutch Reformed Catechism in 1648. Darlow & Moule 4958; Cathedral Libraries Catalogue b1500 Pierre Aubert 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
1603D15151London: Robert Barker 1603. Full Leather. Good. 4to 8 3/8 x 6 in.; 213 x 152 mm. Black letter text in double columns 71 lines to the full column general title and New Testament title within the same woodcut border woodcut initials and tailpieces; title-page cut round and remargined headlines cropped chiefly at the beginning some side-notes shaved first two quires guarded moderate browning occasional staining and soiling several marginal repairs a few affecting or costing some text bottom of Iii2 remargined with last 2 lines of text in pen facsimile and tailpiece cut round and mounted lower right corner of NT title-page renewed in facsimile upper corner of Sss2 supplied in manuscript. Bound with: Robert. F. Herrey. Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances . London: Robert Barker 1603. 4to. Black letter double and triple columns 2 woodcut tailpieces; lower right corner of title-page renewed headlines cropped small tear to top margin of K8 touching text. Nineteenth-century diced Russia; worn rebacked and rehinged upper inner hinge peeling but holding fine. Walter Cullenson signature on Iii2v Warner-Yates-Cullenson families birth records dated 1679-1709 on verso of NT title-page and repeated on verso of Concordances title-page Bible: STC 2189; ESTC S101940; Herbert 273. Concordances: STC 13228b.18 incorrect collation of all signatures in 8s; ESTC S92949 with correct collation of AK8 L2. <br/><br/> Robert Barker hardcover books
1813WRCAM45253Somerset Pa.: Friedrich Goeb 1813. 45276621692pp. Large thick quarto. Contemporary calf with clasps. Minor wear to extremities. Contemporary notations in German on first two preliminary leaves. Some light scattered foxing and toning. A near fine copy. A lovely copy of this highly important German- American Bible notable for being the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. Goeb emigrated from Germany in 1804 settling in western Pennsylvania and establishing himself as a printer first in Chambersburg and later in Somerset in far western Pennsylvania. Printed in two columns this Bible includes the Old and New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha. A handsome copy in original condition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 27883. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 2004. Friedrich Goeb unknown books
184829504New York: American Bible Society 1848. 12mo 18.1 cm 7.1". 818 pp. <br><br>First edition of the first complete New Testament in Choctaw. Variously given as Chahta Chactas Chato Tchakta Chocktaw or Chactaw Choctaw is a language of the Muskogean family spoken by Native Americans who originally lived in parts of Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana before being relocated to Oklahoma. This translation was done by two Presbyterian missionaries the Revs. Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington; the Book of a Thousand Tongues says that they were "substantially assisted by Joseph Dukes and W.H. McKinney educated Choctaws."<br>Â Â Â Â The Rev. Wright 17881853 spent over 30 years among the Choctaw people in Mississippi and Oklahoma. He founded the Wheelock Mission named in honor of either Eleazer Wheelock Dartmouth College's first president or his son John his successor as Dartmouth's president or possibly both in 1832 where he was directly involved in developing the Choctaw written language along with Byington and Dukes. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 3051; Newberry Library Ayer Indians Choctaw-9; North & Nida Book of a Thousand Tongues 1972 265; Pilling Muskhogean 101; Pilling Proof-sheets 2744. Not in Field; not in Sabin. Period-style half morocco and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped title and date. First and last pages slightly smudged text otherwise clean; a few scattered signatures unopened. A handsome copy of an uncommon and significant New Testament. American Bible Society unknown books
1558303259Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi 1558. 478 p.; 333 1 16 pp. 108 woodcut vignettes by repetition of 78 blocks by Jacques Le Fevre. Printer's griffin device on title-page. 2 vols. 16mo. 19th-century polished calf; joints starting spine of first volume chafed; vol. I title soiled worn and remargined at gutter some toning and soiling to text throughout. 478 p.; 333 1 16 pp. 108 woodcut vignettes by repetition of 78 blocks by Jacques Le Fevre. Printer's griffin device on title-page. 2 vols. 16mo. Published by Sebastian Gryphius a German bookseller and printer who settled in Lyon in the 1520s. Described by Febvre and Martin as the "Prince of the Lyon book trade" in the 1540s he supported local humanist culture and used the italic type developed by Aldus Manutius to print compact beautiful books.<br/><br/>A famous illustrated New Testament important "chiefly because of its influence on Bernard Salomon's New Testament cuts". Baudrier VIII 290; Mortimer French 16th Century Books 90 edition of 1560; OCLC: 551931968 locates one copy Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi unknown books
181816976Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828 and later 'Dan Smith His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. <br/> <br/>In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso listing the births of members of the McNees family in the late nineteenth century. <br/> <br/>This is the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny River and the first Bible in English printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. <br/> <br/>Note: this is a well used copy but in good condition. Rare. <br/> <br/>Hills 349; Not in Darlow and Moule Cramer and Spear unknown books
158837032Genevae: Henricus Stephanus 1588. Folio 33 cm; 13". 6 ff. 555 1 blank pp. 8 ff. lacks final blank leaf; lacks vol. II Epistles Revelation. <br><br>An interleaved and heavily annotated copy of the Gospels and Acts of "Beza's third major edition of the Greek New Testament. The text follows that of the second major edition 1582 with only five exceptions" Darlow and Moule. => One should note that the title-page proclaims this "quarta editio" and that this is Estienne's third folio printing of Beza's N.T.<br>Â Â Â Â Beza's New Testament Greek text is here accompanied by his Latin and the Vulgate i.e. Catholic Latin translations the trio appearing in parallel columns on each page with => extensive notes that often fill as much as one-third to one-half of a page and with parallel references additionally set in the margins. The volume's title-page is printed in red and black and bears Henri Estienne's printer's device; a different finely wrought woodcut headpiece opens each book with each column on those pages bearing a woodcut initial at its head and a few of the books of the N.T. end with woodcut tailpieces.<br>Â Â Â Â Evidence of readership: An interleaved copy with => the vast majority of the leaves bearing an early 19th-century reader's notes and annotations. The notes cite references published as late as 1809 and it is clear that the natively German-speaking scholar was comfortable in Greek Hebrew Latin and English.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership signature on title-page of Leon St. Vincent. Later in The Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released; no markings.<br>Â Â Â Â The paper stock used for the interleaving has the classic ProPatria watermark and that and its countermark match Churchill's 151 which has a starting date of 1799. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4650; Adams B1711. On the interleaves' watermarks see: Churchill Watermarks in paper in Holland England France etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries. 19th-century half vellum with German pastepaper over boards spine with tinted and tooled label text recased and new endpapers; vol. I only of this production without the Epistles and Revelation. Title-page creased and dust-soiled all leaves before pp. 9/10 rodent-gnawed in lower outside corner with loss of paper but not of text or manuscript annotation and a bit of light waterstaining to rearmost leaves only. => An important edition and a singular copy. [Henricus Stephanus] hardcover books
153540636colophon: Basileae: apvd Io Bebelium for Johann Schabler called Wattenschnee 1535. 8vo 16 cm 6.25". 8 367 1 ff. <br><br>Jakob Ceporinus 14991525 born Jakob Wiesendanger the editor of this Greek Testament was => a Swiss humanist who attended the universities of Cologne and Vienna and acquired knowledge of Hebrew by studying with the German humanist Johannes Reuchlin in Ingolstadt. He worked in Basel as a proofreader for a printing house settled in Zurich and in April of 1525 was appointed as => the first Reader of Greek and Hebrew at Zwingli's school of theology in Zurich. He died unexpectedly in December 1525.<br>Â Â Â Â The first edition of his Greek New Testament appeared in 1524 from the same printer as this third edition of 1535 and like that first closely follows the Erasmus third edition with a few variants and independent readings. Also as with the 1524 edition the title-page has => four woodcuts after Urs Graf representing the evangelists and that leaf is followed by Oecolampadius' "In sacrarum literarum lectionem . . . exhortatio" pi 27.<br>Â Â Â Â The work was published at the expense of Johann Schabler called Wattenschnee whose device with motto "Durum pacientia frango" is on the verso of last leaf. The Testament text is in Greek only and each book begins with a woodcut headpiece and a historiated initial with some initials after Dance of Death designs by => Hans Holbein.<br>Â Â Â Â Reuss lists this among "Editiones Erasmicae."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 19th-century signature on front fly-leaf of W.C.S. Tole ; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â VD16 B4180; Adams B1653; Reuss Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti Graeci p. 33. Not in Darlow & Moule but see 4601 for the first editon. 18th-century full calf no raised bands round spine gilt extra; spine pulled at head front joint sometime repaired taking part of the label and some gilt on that side with volume now strong corners rubbed and some old abrasions. => Interior with a very few instances of old marginalia; type splendidly sharp on very clean pages. apvd Io, Bebelium {for Johann Schabler, called Wattenschnee} hardcover books
1669KK6561Amsterdam: Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier 1669. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 parts in one volume. Elephant folio 385 x 260 x 130mm. Collation: first part: lxxxiv 732pp. paginated 366 3 folding maps; second part: iv 324pp. paginated 162; third part: iv 404pp. paginated 202 2 folding maps; fourth part: 140pp. paginated 70. Signatures: 4; a-e6; f8; A-Z6; Aa-Zz6; Aaa-Ppp6; A-Z6; Aa-Cc6; Dd8; 2; A-Z6; Aa-Kk6; Ll4; A-L6; M4. Engraved frontispiece 363 x 226mm signed N. Berchem Invent. & Matham sic Sculp depicting two female figures holding La Sainte Bible; together with two cherubs one holding the Ten Commandments and Le Saint Evangile; the latter with his foot on a skull. This spectacular frontispiece combines the works from three profound engravers of Dutch 17th century publishing activities. There are numerous engraved illustrations throughout the text plus five added maps and plans. Four of these Paradis terrestre facing p. 3 part 1 Voyages des Israelites facing p. 86 part 1 Pais de Canaan facing p. 1 part 3 Voyages des Apotres facing p. 68 part 3 were designed specifically for this edition by N. Berchem; the first three were executed by A. Blotelingh and the last mentioned by I. de Visscher. The fifth inserted engraving is an unsigned map of Jerusalem facing p. 247 part 1 plus the Temple and Temple furniture and was copied from the Polyglot Bible printed in London in 1655-57. see Chambers Bibliography of French Bibles II; Seventeenth Century French Language.p. 482 ff. Woodcut printers device on title of Minerva an owl and olive tree with proverbial legend Ne extra oleas Nothing but the olive. Contemporary vellum spliced or splitting in some areas otherwise holding up well a robust volume. <br/><br/>La Sainte Bible printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier of Amsterdam has been called without exception the most splendid French Bible ever printed Bibl. Sussexiana. However Brunet echoed by Graesse calls is très remarquable par sa belle éxecution typographique; mais la correction en a eté peu soignée et les notes ne sont pas estimées. A magnificent but not very correct edition. According to the catalogue of 1675 it was printed in four sizes of type Imperial France Real Veluws Real and Grand Mediaen. It was one of the few large-format productions of the Elzevier presses better known for their small Port-Royal New Testaments. The two printmakers who engraved Berchems designs for the Bible maps Abraham Blooteling 1640-1690 and Jan de Visscher 1632-1692 were highly respected artists who lived and worked in Amsterdam. These engravers must have been acquainted and had probably studied together in the workshop of Cornelis Visscher. Both most likely were selected or at least approved by Berchem as engravers of the map prints. Four of the five maps within the 1669 La Sainte Bible are ornamented with illustrations engraved from models by Berchem. Designs on the fifth map may also be by Berchem. Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier hardcover books
17673087Cambridge: John Archdeacon 1767. Two vols. 6.75 x 4.25". Contemporary Scottish black morocco spine in six compartments red morocco lettering pieces in the second others with gilt saltire with small flowers covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall dated 1769 pasted onto "Dutch gilt" endpapers. Some modern glue is visible in the inner hinge of the lower cover of vol. 2. Two original binder's blanks at the front and back of both volumes. Suitable for exhibition and study. This well preserved set of Scottish bindings is further distinguished by FOUR copy-specific letterpress bookplates printed in red and black no doubt in Scotland which reads in full: <br/><br/>"Elisabeth Hall Her Bible. 20th June. MDCCLXIX." <br/><br/>Concerning this printed bookplate it would appear that the present volumes contain the only known impressions of it thereby meriting inclusion in ESTC and elsewhere.<br/><br/>The tools on the front cover of the bindings have not been matched with published examples but the spine treatment and endpapers are decidedly Scottish.<br/><br/>That the Psalms were printed in Edinburgh Alexander Kincaid 1763 leads us to the conclusion that the present bindings are not only Scottish but that the original owner of them Elisabeth Hall was certainly Scottish herself.<br/><br/>John Archdeacon's 1767 Cambridge Bible is not in the National Library of Scotland. Unsurprisingly NLS has four copies of Alexander Kincaid's 1763 Psalms two of which are in the Bindings Collection: Bdg.s.8072 and Bdg.s.1002. John Archdeacon unknown books
1949CNJL314Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1949. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Rogers Bruce. Two volumes the Bible one of 975 copies elephant folio size 942 pp. and Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies quarto size 41 pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers this time for an American publisher his first was the "Oxford Lectern Bible" published in 1935 using the King James Version. No other book designer / typographer from the history of printing can claim to have designed two complete folio Bibles each one highly regarded. Bruce Rogers 1870-1857 American typographer who invented the "Centaur" tyepface based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson is considered by many to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. He designed books for the Riverside Press Cambridge when he cut his first typeface "Montaigne" named for the first book it appeared in "The Essays of Montaigne" 1903; he designed "Centaur" while working as house designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1916 he worked for the Cambridge University Press and a few years later returned to the U.S. where he met William Edwin Rudge and was employed by him at his Mount Vernon Press. During this time he also designed books for Harvard University Press and served as typographic advisor to Lanston Monotype. In 1928 Rogers returned to England where he produced what many have called "the most important and notable typographic achievement of the twentieth century" being his Oxford Lectern Bible. The present work was done during his later years but is no less formidable in both size and scope and essential to any collection of his work.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped illustration to upper board lettered in gilt to backstrip top-edge gilt quarto volume in matching red cloth with similar gilt motif to upper board and gilt lettering to backstrip with original glassine jacket and housed in a blue paper slipcase numerous flourishes and initials vintage bookseller ticket on rear pastedown; types used include Fred Goudy's Deepdene Italic Forum and Oldstyle type paper is 74 lb. 75 percent white linen rag paper from Barcham Green Mill in England elephant folio size 19.25" by 14"; "Making of the Bible" quarto size 11.5" by 8.5" pagination: Bible i-vi vii-xxii xxiii-xxiv 1-941 942 1 colophon; Making of the Bible 1-4 5-19 20-41 limited first editions of both volumes with the folio being one of 975 copies and the accompanying quarto being number 178 of 1875 copies.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A very good copy of the folio with some professional restoration to the backstrip/joints some minor rubbing at edges the binding with only light dustiness gilt is bright with a few rubbed spots and the interior clean other than some minor soiling to the endpapers free of prior owner markings one very short closed tear to the upper margin of the dedication page to King James; quarto fine overall with some extremely light wear to the joints at the head and tail of the spine its glassine wrapper alas fair only as the spine has perished and we only have the panels/flaps its slipcase very good plus sturdy with some overall wear.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy book and therefore additional postage will apply as the standard shipping charge will not cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
163324066London: Pr. by Augustine Mathewes one of the assignes of Hester Ogden 1633. Folio 33.3 cm 13.25". Frontis. engr. t.-p. 58 912 18 25 1 206 2 17 1 blank pp. <br><br>When the Jesuit scholars at Rheims succeeded in printing their Catholic translation of the New Testament into English first edition 1582 the event affected various English Protestant scholars in different ways: Some were offended or outraged others intrigued and yet others spurred to action. William Fulke of Pembroke College Cambridge was among those offended outraged and spurred: In 1589 he produced the first edition of his work attempting to refute the Rheims New Testament. His approach however which was to print the Rheims NT in parallel columns with the Bishops' NT the then accepted version of the Church of England supplying accompanying notes and explanations had unforeseen consequences.<br>Â Â Â Â As Darlow and Moule comment "by printing the Rheims Testament in full side by side with the Bishops' version Fulke secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611." Alan Thomas elaborates by observing that "many a dignified or felicitous phrase was silently lifted by the editors of King James's Version and thus passed into the language" Great Books and Book Collectors p. 108.<br>Â Â Â Â This is the fourth edition "wherein are many grosse absurdities corrected." A portrait of William Fulke precedes the engraved title-page both done by William Marshall. The Biblical text is followed as issued by Fulke's Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue against the Manifold Cavils Frivolous Quarrels and Impudent Slanders of Gregorie Martin. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â STC 2nd ed. 2947; Darlow & Moule 371; ESTC S121246; Herbert 480. Contemporary mottled calf covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label all edges gilt; binding rubbed leather moderately acid-pitted joints cracked rectangle of leather lost at upper inner corner of front cover. Lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped; free endpapers excised; lower outer corners lightly waterstained at rear; pages otherwise slightly age-toned but notably clean. A sound good copy. Pr. by Augustine Mathewes on[e] of the assignes of Hester Ogden hardcover books
1984266258Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited. hardcover. fine. Over 100 colorful illustrations embellished with gold; decorated initial letters throughout. 8vo full brown leather elaborately decorated in blind-stamp; raised bands & papal seal on spine. Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Beautiful facsimile of a 13th century bibletranslated by St. Jerome in the Vatican Library Codex Vaticanus Latinus 39. Signed by the Prefect of the Bibliteca Apostolica Vaticana this is an edition of 600 copies but this one is marked "Sample not for sale." Housed in a special silk cloth presentation case.<br/><br/> Belser unknown books
158068068A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances" BIBLE IN ENGLISH. BARKER Christopher. HERREY Robert F. compiler. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue Caldean Greeke and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables for breuitie sake is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. 1580. First Edition. One of two issues of the same year priority unknown. Our year based upon the issue points as shown by the British Library: "with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the"" ESTC S125409. Quarto 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 236 x 185 mm. 92 leaves. A8-L8 M4. With preface signed "Thine in the Lord Robart F. Herrey" and dated "xxii of December. An. Domini. 1578." We could find no other complete copies of this first edition of "Concordance" at auction in the past 50 years. Although this comes separately The Herrey "Concordance" is generally found issued with a Barker Geneva Bible starting with the date 1580. There were several printings of this "Concordance" starting in 1580 and going into the next decade however only the present copy and one other printing were issued with the two versions of the Barker Bibles of 1580. Present copy with Signatures: A-L M and with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the". This version was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 123. Another version of the same year with Signatures: A-C D-V was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 124. Bound separately in modern full brown morocco. Covers ruled in triple blind and with a central "Cross" devise in blind on both covers. Newer endpapers. Some occasional ink small hand marginalia. Edges of leaves a bit frayed. A stain to bottom margin of leaves H2-H3. A paper repair to bottom margin of final leaf M4 not affecting text. Overall very good. According to Herbert and Darlow & Moule " The Concordances which form an essential part of the volume of the Bible were compiled by Robart F. Herrey who is identified with Robert Harrison the Norfolk Brownist 9d. 1585" Darlow & Moule 123. ESTC S125409 . Herbert 165. STC 13228b.1 . HBS 68068. $2850 Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. unknown books
2012WRCLIT70037New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York 2012. 20; 20pp. text in both English and German plus twenty-five original leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Large folio. Fine. In a custom clamshell box. The German Bible in America has a long and significant history reflective of the European culture which gave it birth the local conditions of Pennsylvania where it rose to its greatest heights and the rich German-American culture created by emigrants and their descendants in the 19th-century United States. From the first American edition of a Bible in German in 1743 through the late 19th century numerous printers and publishers issued Bibles in various formats ranging from large folios intended for lectern use to smaller versions for personal study. This leaf book celebrates the range and richness of these productions indicative of the world of German culture in America in the 18th and 19th centuries as expressed through its most widely studied text in a series of twenty- five leaves. Each set contains two versions of the descriptive text one in English and the other in German with an introduction by Don Yoder Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies Folklore and Folk-Life at the University of Pennsylvania. Further text describes the printers of each of the leaves the circumstances under which they were printed and other attributes. Each leaf is enclosed in an individual folder.The German Bible in America is issued in an edition of sixty copies with fifty of the regular series and ten additional deluxe copies containing six extra leaves of illustrations from the illustrated Bibles included in the collection. This is one of fifty regular copies numbered by hand. A deluxe issue with six additional illustrated leaves is also available for $3500. unknown books
1894298729Leipzig: Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig 1894. hardcover. very good. German Gothic text printed in double columns each within a red border and with red decorative initials throughout. 2 volumes Old & New Testaments. Very thick folios illustrated with 127 fantastic titled chromolithographic plates by various European artists including Ridinger Luca Giordano Andrea Appiani Philippe de Champagne Nicolas Poussin Paolo Veronese Francesco Barbieri Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo et al. all with tissue guards. Elaborate publisher's binding with highly ornamental beveled covers featuring an inlaid picture surrounded by deeply etched patterns with gilt and metallic accents along with inset decorative stones; all edges gilt; large metal clasp closures on each volume. Covers show some light edgewear and have been re-backed in sympathetic brown morocco; the pages and illustrations are clean. Leipzig: Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig 1894. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig unknown books