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176332387Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Thick quarto. 4 992 277 3pp. Printed in two columns. Expert restoration repairing tears with minor losses to OT 2 and A1 and NT A2 and Mm4. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards early marbled endpapers rebacked to style spine with raised bands in six compartments<br/> <br/> The second Saur bible: the second edition of the first bible in a European language to be published in America.<br/> <br/> Sauer's text of the Luther translation was largely based on the Halle Bible but with the addition of the appendix to the Apocrypha with books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg version. When first published in 1743 Saur's bible was the first bible in a European language to be published in America and just the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder.<br/> <br/> Arndt The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 269; Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 9343; Hildeburn 1877; O'Callaghan p. 25; Sabin 5192; Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 28-50. Christoph Saur unknown
17185248DBCoira, Andrea Pfeffer, 1718. 2°. (10) Bl., 554, 364 S., (2) Bl., 230 S., (1) Bl. Lederband mit 10 Messingbeschlägen.
172658639BB8 Teile in 4 Bänden. Berlenburg, (s.n.). 1726-1742. 4°. Gestochenes Frontispiz, 6 n.n. Bl., 804 S., 4 n.n. Bl., 880 S.; 4 n.n. Bl., 784 S., 3 n.n. Bl., 858 S.; 4 n.n. Bl., 820 S., 4 n.n. Bl., 792 S.; 4n.n. Bl.,600 S., 2 n.n. Bl., 556 S., 44 n.n. S. Register. Blind- und goldgeprägte Lederbände um 1880 mit roten goldgeprägten Rückenschildern und schwarzgeprägter Rückenfiletierung. Deckel mit goldgeprägtem Kreuzmedaillon.
1731R240065602CHEZ FRANCOIS HALMA/CHEZ THEODORE HAAK SAMUEL LUCHTMANS & JACQUES DE POOLSUM. 1716-1731. In-8. Cartonné. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 647 + 150 + 96 pages - plats très abîmés, défraîchie - coins très frottés - dos abîmé - ouvrage partiellement désolidarisé - quelques rousseurs sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - nombreuses phrases musicales - 5 photos disponibles - annotations sur le 1er contre plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 220-Bible
17910005591Worcester & Boston: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Good. With two of the 50 copperplate engravings from the folio edition plates 29 & 48. Royal quarto 1310 pages contemporary blindstamped full sheep repaired joints and head and foot spine panels replaced and with new endpapers; The frontispiece has been tipped-in on the new endpaper; rear cover very scuffed foxing and spots throughout edgeworn <br /> <br /> a few minor marginal tears and chips some leaves imperfectly sewn in. The Family Record leaves have extensive handwritten notes of the families of Gen. Joseph Badger Jr. Signed by him of Gilmanton Belmont NH father of Gov. Wm. Badger 1834-36. & Charles Jacobs of Gilmanton. <br/><br/>Isaiah Thomas whom Benjamin Franklin called 'the Baskerville of America' was one of the notable publishers during the early days of the Republic.He made every effort to ensure accuracy of the text by comparing some thirty different editions and having the text carefully examined by several clergymen and others who compared it with eight Bibles - Herbert 1353." The First Illustrated Bible printed in America is the 1791 folio Bible by Isaiah Thomas "The most sumptuous American Bible of the eighteenth century" : thus this quarto-sized version of that work is the Second Illustrated Bible printed in America and the first Royal Quarto Bible in English published in American both editions were announced as "completed" on the same date altho vol. 2 of the folio was still in progress. Rumball-Petre 172; Sabin 5173 variant; O'Callaghan pp. 40-42; Hills 30. Evans 23185 states that some copies were issued with no Concordance and 48 additional plates. This state however has only two copperplates as frontispieces of the 50 copperplate engravings from the folio edition plates 29 & 48 . Included are 200 pages of Tables Apocrypha and Family Records Index etc. The subscription price was $7 but half the price could be paid in wheat rye Indian corn butter or pork! It is believed that 1500 copies of each format were printed. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution - Wright EARLY BIBLES OF AMERICA." Isaiah Thomas hardcover
1769373151Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1769. 5293pp. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf covers ruled in blind spine with raised bands brass hinges and clasps minor wear along front joint. Provenance: Abraham de Türck printed book label inserted between the front endpapers. 5293pp. 12mo. German translation of the New Testament printed in Germantown by Christopher Saur the younger. Famous for their quarto bibles in German of 1743 1763 and 1776 the Saur father and son also issued the New Testament separately in smaller format in 1745 1755 1760 1761 1764 1769 and 1775.<br /> <br /> The present example with a unique added leaf preceding the front blank being a printed bookplate within an elaborate typographic border indicating that the owner Abraham de Türck had received the book from his grandfather Johannes Hoch in 1772. Evans 11181; ESTC W4533; Bötte 366 Christoph Saur unknown
1792374643Philadelphia: W. Young 1792. Text in two columns. 1170pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked at an early date upper cover detached worn. Provenance: General Theological Seminary perforated stamps bookplate other markings. Paper box. Text in two columns. 1170pp. 12mo. A rare early American bible advertised as the "first American pocket bible" being Young's second edition of the bible complete with metrical psalms following his edition from a different setting of 1790 Evans 22345; Hills 25. That bible was advertised for sale by Young in Dunlap's American Daily Advertise in May 1791 as "lately published" at the price of "6-1/2 dollars cash and 7 if entered on account." Although both that bible and the present edition are duodecimo the former is larger in both height and width and the 1791 advertisement continues by noting that "An edition of the Bible in pocket size is now in the press." The present Bible would be advertised in Philadelphia newspapers in September and October 1792 as "now in the press the first American edition of the Pocket Bible . printed on fine paper with good type." <br /> <br /> Small-format American bibles published less than a decade after the Aitken bible are rare and this would appear to be the smallest bible in English published in America to date. Hills 32; Evans 23183; ESTC W4493 W. Young unknown
1771373724Boston: Printed by William M'Alpine for and sold by John Perkins in Union-Street near the market 1771. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. Contemporary calf rebacked. Expert restoration. Title within ornamental border. 159 1pp. Trimmed close with some loss along the fore-edge. 8vo. ETSC records only two examples of this issue AAS and NYPL. Evans 11987; ESTC W4709; Welch 1072.27 Printed [by William M'Alpine] for and sold by John Perkins, in Union-Street, near the market unknown
175532488-488Zurich Conrad Orell and Comp. 1755-56. With 2 engr. figured frontispieces and 1 large head-piece by Johann Rudolf Holzhalb; inserted are 150 and 100 num. engr. plates by Weigel after Luyken from his "Celebriores Veteris Novi Testamenti iconibus" 1712. 8 leaves 22 pp. "Heilsamer Unterricht" 6 leaves index 292 130 pp. 1 leaf 146 recte 144 pp.; title 182 66 118 pp. 371 pp. Folio. Contemp. calf spines in 6 compartments with 2 labels some skilful repairs to corners and spine ends somewhat rubbed. Zurich Conrad Orell and Comp. 1755-56. First edition of the so-called "Ulrich-Bibel" an important new version of the Zurich bible. The editor was pastor at Grossmüster and was close to Pietism. This edition is one of the most carefully edited Bibles and comes with regard to the beauty of the printing close to that of Froschauer's publication. The text is based on the 1667 and 1724 editions; it was revised and adapted to the more wide-spread use of modern high German. Johann Caspar Ulrich 1705-1768 was in charge under the supervision of the Church Council. In the "Kurze Anzeige" at the beginning Johann Konrad Nüscheler gives a bibliography of Zurich bibles. Together with Johann Rudolf Ziegler he was also involed in the text revision. Illustrations were not originally planned but since many buyers regretted the lack of images as they were used in the Froschauer bibles so the publisher offered illustrations separately for sale which are often different to those in this present copy. The two pompous frontispieces by J. H. Holzhalb and the large head-piece to the dedication are original parts of the edition. In addition this copy is embellished with the engravings of Christian Weigel after Jan and Caspar Luyken originally published at Nuremberg as a plate work mounted and inserted. Each plate bears a four-line Latin and German epigram by the poet Samuel Faber 1657-1716 beneath the image. - Lacking Weigel's engr. title and plate 37 in the Old Testament and plates 101-108 in the New Testament. - Old name on flyleaf in vol. II occasional light browning or foxing some thumbing in margins on the whole a very nice set. - Lüthi Bibel in der Schweiz 15 2 incomplete copies; Mezger 258f. in detail; Bibelsammlung Würt. LB E 1475; Leemann-van Elck Buchschmuck der Zürcher Bibeln 100f.; the same Bibelsammlung im Grossmünster 36; not in Darlow/Moule. BIBLES ; BIBELN RELIGION ; Zurich, Conrad Orell and Comp. unknown
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
1791373974Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. Contemporary calf spine with raised bands ruled in gilt on either side of each band. Foxing and toning front endpaper detached. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88. <br /> <br /> Thomas' quarto bible was published in three distinct issues: with 2 copperplates only i.e. frontispieces to the Old and New Testaments as here; with two copperplates and John Brown's 89-page concordance in the rear; and the rarest and most deluxe form with 48 copperplates and the concordance.<br /> <br /> A very difficult edition to find in a contemporary unsophisticated binding. Evans 23185; Hills 30; ESTC W4496 Isaiah Thomas unknown
172755069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound.<br /> <br /> An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover
17152008180153Amsterdam London : Printed in the year 1715 1715. Hardcover. Acceptable. Colonial Maryland Bible: Curson / Moale / Hoffman / Lord Families of Baltimore Thick folio; 40.8 x 24.5 cm 16 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Extremely worn contemporary leather binding. Binding rebacked. Toning staining. Text printed in two columns. 6 engraved maps by Joseph Moxon: "Map of all the Earth"; "Paradise or the Garden of Eden"; "Israel's Peregrination"; "Jerusalem"; "Canaan The Land of Promise"; and "The Travels of St. Paul and other the Apostles". Chip missing from margin of engraved frontispiece title. Title margin stained. Final two leaves list of tables have loss at the fore-edge entering into the text. "Folio King James Version with Geneva notes likely printed at Amsterdam" Herbert 936; ESTC T82272; Darlow & Moule 936. <br> Provenance: This book was in the Curzon family and their descendants for more than 250 years. There are extensive genealogical information including 28 hand written entries over multiple generations on the Apocraypha title page. The entries begin with Richard Curson 1726-1805 and Elizabeth Becker 1731-1787. Richard was an English emigrant to colonial New York who became a prominent merchant banker and patriot buried Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Baltimore. The Cursons were sympathetic to the American Revolution and fled the British occupation of New York City for Baltimore. Additional note: His granddaughter was the first American-born Catholic Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774-1821. Richard Jr. continued his father's wine trade and outfitted eight of his ships as privateers during the Revolution. Ownership passed then to Richard Jr.'s daughter Elizabeth Curson d. 1880 who married Samuel Hoffman. Includes the records of Richard Curzon Hoffman a Confederate officer in the Twenty-first Virginia Volunteer Infantry Stonewall Jackson's Second Brigade 1861-1865. The final genealogical entry is for Eliza Lawrence Hoffman b. 1891. Later the book passed to Henrietta Mactier Hoffman who married Walter Lord Sr. Early signature of Ellin Moale Curson and others. Bookplate of the author Walter Lord. John Walter Lord Jr. 1917-2002 was a noted author of more than 12 books including an account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic "A Night to Remember." Includes some related Baltimore ephemera. Lord died without issue and this Bible passed out of the family's hands after his death. Later owned by Frances Tower Thacher a descendant of the Vanderbilt family. Further note: Tucked into an old piece of paper is a four-leaf clover I have not tested its luck but it may still yield fortuitous qualities. [Amsterdam] [London] : Printed in the year 1715 hardcover
179611489Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 4to 27.7 cm 10.9". vii xvi 488 196 pp. 8 ff. <br><br>Three American "firsts" here counting that of our caption! For while being additionally the uncommon first printing in America of the Gospels in English in any translation other than the King James or the Douai-Rheims version this is also the first privately accomplished translation of the Gospels printed in America.<br>Â Â Â Â George Campbell 171996 was a minister of the Church of Scotland theologian and principal of Marischal College. He wrote a number of theological works including a defense of miracles in response to David Hume and was noted for originality of argument as well as charity towards his opponents. This translation of the Gospels was first published in England in 1789; the work consists of a preface and preliminary dissertations the actual translation and the notes with the whole being very scholarly resorting frequently to the Greek in the dissertations and notes.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page and contents leaf with early inked inscriptions reading "Jas. Booth. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W4383; Evans 30086; Hills English Bible in America 56. On Campbell see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary treed sheep rubbed and abraded with leather lost at corners; nicely rebacked with original label laid on. Title-page and contents inscribed as described above; endpapers waterstained and pages with light spots of foxing. Paper in many sections faintly blue. Thomas Dobson hardcover books
1738059293London: Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty MDCCXXXVIII. Engravings Printed By H. Parsons 1738. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 16 x 11 Inches Tall. 200 Engravings Printed By H. Parsons. LONDON : 1738. 200 Engravings Printed By H. Parsons Scarce large folio Bible. Original tooled binding with engravings. Double-column text. Engraved title-page; printed general title-page; Apocrypha; NT title-page; 'printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd.'. Psalms to rear with title-page dated 1735. Hardback. With 200 Engravings printed by H. Parsons. Engraved portrait of King George II. Contemporary full black Morocco-leather; later re-spine in matching leather. Raised bands. Elaborate gilt decoration to covers; spine gilt and blind tooled; gilt lettered label. Dated in gilt to spine foot. Gilt dentelles. Original marbled end-papers. Armorial bookplate. Neat family-tree of the Swinburn family to NT title-verso from 1835-1868. No internal markings. A few pages with old insect holes to inner margin. Tight bright and clean. Minor foxing and minor wear only. Collated complete; text and all engravings present. A beautifully printed and bound Bible. Well-preserved with delightful full-page of engravings interspersed throughout. VERY GOOD INDEED. Referenced by: Herbert A.S. Engl. Bible 1038. Referenced by: ESTC T090355. 'Price One Pound Five Shillings Unbound' to title-page. JOHN BASKETT 1665-1742 was the king's printer. His sons Thomas and Robert and grandson by the latter Mark were also engaged in the press. The first Bible printed by 'the assigns of Newcomb and Hills' appeared in 1710 and the name of John Baskett was first added to theirs upon a New Testament in 1712. Baskett began to print the Book of Common Prayer in the following year when he brought out editions in quarto octavo and 12mo. He was made master of the Company of Stationers in 1714 and again in 1715. Four editions of the Bible folio quarto octavo and duodecimo appeared with his imprint in 1715. His next publication was an edition in two volumes imperial folio printed at Oxford the Old Testament in 1717 and New Testament in 1716 a work of great typographical beauty styled by Dibdin 'the most magnificent' of the Oxford Bibles. It is known as 'The Vinegar Bible' from an error in the headline of St. Luke ch. xx. which reads 'The parable of the vinegar' instead of 'The parable of the vineyard.' It is so carelessly printed that it was at once named 'A Baskett-full of printers' errors'. This edition has none the Baskett's previous errors. SCARCE. 3 copies held in the UK only the Glasgow copy has the engravings: National Library of Scotland; University of Cambridge; & University of Glasgow. Large Folio; approx. 16 x 11 x 3.5 inches. HEAVY; Extra postage required. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Keswick Inklings Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty MDCCXXXVIII. Engravings Printed By H. Parsons . The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. GIANT FOLIO. Contemporary tooled binding. SCARCE <br/> <br/> Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, MDCCXXXVIII. [ Engravings Printed By H. Parsons ] hardcover
178924555Paris Defer de Maisonneuve 1789 12 volumes in-8, demi-veau havane, plats de papier marbr, dos quatre nerfs orns de roulettes et filets dors; doublures et gardes de papier marbr, non rogns, couvertures imprimes.Nouvelle dition, orne de 300 figures graves d'aprs les dessins de Marillier.
1758AQ32529Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1758. 1296pp bound with the Apocrypha which follows a separate register A-I8 K4; title page is engraved with a divisional NT title. With a charming manuscript gift inscription see below dated 1767 to verso the final leaf of Apocrypha and a neat manuscript correction to PP4r. ESTC T91957. Herbert 1123. Bound with: PSALTER - BRADY N. TATE N. A New Version of the psalms of david Fitted to the tunes used in churches. Dublin. Printed by Boulter Grierson Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1759. 80pp. ESTC T90715. 8vo. Beautifully bound in richly gilt-tooled nineteenth-century burgundy morocco. A.E.G with elaborate diced gauffering to edges decorated paper endpapers and a leather book-label of Frances Maria Preston dated 1850 to FEP. Slightly rubbed to extremities a couple of indentations to upper board else a fine copy. A particularly choice copy handsomely presented and in remarkably fresh condition of the first edition of the Bible to be printed in Dublin by Hugh Boulter Grierson d.1771 who had inherited the patent that his half-brother George Grierson 1680–1753 had held since 1732. Boulter was later himself awarded a forty year patent in 1766. The lengthy gift inscription in opposite the New Testament title marks the feat of memory of a seven year old child the grandson of Revd. William Crowe b.1693 Church of Ireland priest Dean of Clonfert 1745-66. and reads as follows: The Gift of The Revd Dean Crowe to his Beloved Grand Child Emilia Evans which he gives her in Testimony of his Regard for her on account of her Sweetness of temper and Amiable Dispoition But Chiefly as A Reward for her Diligence & Progress in the Holy Scriptures Having got by Heart the First Seventeen Chapters of Proverbs Since the First of Last January This being the Seventh year of her age Augusth. the 24 1767. Willm. Crowe. . First Boulter Grierson edition. Printed by Boulter Grierson printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty hardcover
1738060528London: Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty MDCCXXXVIII. Engravings Printed By H. Parsons 1738. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Folio - 16 x 11 Inches Tall. 200 Engravings Printed By H. Parsons. LONDON : 1738. 200 Engravings Printed By H. Parsons Scarce large folio Bible. Original tooled binding with engravings. Double-column text. Engraved title-page; printed general title-page; Apocrypha; NT title-page; 'printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd.'. Psalms to rear with title-page dated 1735. Hardback. With 200 Engravings printed by H. Parsons. Engraved portrait of King George II. Contemporary full black Morocco-leather; later re-spine in matching leather. Raised bands. Elaborate gilt decoration to covers; spine gilt and blind tooled; gilt lettered label. Dated in gilt to spine foot. Gilt dentelles. Original marbled end-papers. Armorial bookplate. Neat family-tree of the Swinburn family to NT title-verso from 1835-1868. No internal markings. A few pages with old insect holes to inner margin. Tight bright and clean. Minor foxing and minor wear only. Collated complete; text and all engravings present. A beautifully printed and bound Bible. Well-preserved with delightful full-page of engravings interspersed throughout. VERY GOOD INDEED. Referenced by: Herbert A.S. Engl. Bible 1038. Referenced by: ESTC T090355. 'Price One Pound Five Shillings Unbound' to title-page. JOHN BASKETT 1665-1742 was the king's printer. His sons Thomas and Robert and grandson by the latter Mark were also engaged in the press. The first Bible printed by 'the assigns of Newcomb and Hills' appeared in 1710 and the name of John Baskett was first added to theirs upon a New Testament in 1712. Baskett began to print the Book of Common Prayer in the following year when he brought out editions in quarto octavo and 12mo. He was made master of the Company of Stationers in 1714 and again in 1715. Four editions of the Bible folio quarto octavo and duodecimo appeared with his imprint in 1715. His next publication was an edition in two volumes imperial folio printed at Oxford the Old Testament in 1717 and New Testament in 1716 a work of great typographical beauty styled by Dibdin 'the most magnificent' of the Oxford Bibles. It is known as 'The Vinegar Bible' from an error in the headline of St. Luke ch. xx. which reads 'The parable of the vinegar' instead of 'The parable of the vineyard.' It is so carelessly printed that it was at once named 'A Baskett-full of printers' errors'. This edition has none the Baskett's previous errors. SCARCE. 3 copies held in the UK only the Glasgow copy has the engravings: National Library of Scotland; University of Cambridge; & University of Glasgow. Large Folio; approx. 16 x 11 x 3.5 inches. HEAVY; Extra postage required. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: Printed by John Baskett printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty MDCCXXXVIII. Engravings Printed By H. Parsons . The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. GIANT FOLIO. Contemporary tooled binding. SCARCE <br/> <br/> Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, MDCCXXXVIII. [ Engravings Printed By H. Parsons ] hardcover
1790374001New York: Hugh Gaine 1790. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. Contemporary sheep minor wear. Tear to front endpaper else very good. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. The second NT printed in New York preceded only by the prior edition by Gaine dated 1789 known in but one extant example at NYPL and evidently from the same setting of type as this edition. The complete Bible was not published in New York until 1792. Evans 22359; Hills 27; ESTC W4679 Hugh Gaine unknown
172654196Berlenburg: n.p. 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Eight volumes bound in four folio published between 1726 and 1742. All volumes with letterpress title page; sectional half titles; woodcut headpieces. Vol. 1 engraved frontispiece often not present here precedes vol. 7; appropriate engraved title leaves have been supplied from another German bible edition and inserted in vols. 1 3 4 and 5. Text in two columns. Contemporary calf over beveled wooden boards ruled in blind; spines with raised bands gilt morocco lettering pieces paper labels; marbled edges. Catches and clasps perished. Slight remains of paper labels. One volume with vertical crack through center of upper board else covers sound worn at extremities especially spine ends. Text with variable mild embrowning and light foxing occasional mild dampstains but overall clean. A good set complete and sturdily bound.<br /> <br /> Vol. 1 1726: 12 804 pp. - 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 - Vol. 7 1739: 8 600 pp. - Vol. 8 1742: 4 556 44 index pp. with letterpress half-title: Der Berlenburgischen Bible Achter und Letzter Theil.<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 vol. 8 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 United Brethren Historical Society Dayton Ohio. 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 /> 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
1790260927Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West 1790. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Joints a bit tender; tiny chip at tail of spine. A beautiful unrestored copy and with Pierce family inscriptions on the endpapers. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. With unusual ownership painting on the endpaper identifying the Psalms as belonging to Benjamin Pierce's Book 1791 and depicting a man up a tree by way of ladder either to send apples to another man seated below or to read his psalms aloft in peace-- let the viewer be the judge! <br/><br/>The following leaf includes a calligraphic presentation in 1799 to James Pierce who notes its use by "the society in Brattle Square" which we take to mean the then Congregational and later c. 1805-1876 Unitarian Church on Brattle Street in Boston Massachusetts. <br/><br/>The church distinguished itself by its somewhat relaxed attitude toward rigid Calvinist practices and by iits array of important ministers: Benjamin Colman 1699-1747; William Cooper 1716-1743; Samuel Cooper 1747-1783; Peter Thacher 1785-1802; Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1805-1812; Edward Everett 1814-1815; John Gorham Palfrey 1813-1831; and Samuel Kirkland Lothrop 1834-1876. The parishioners were no less esteemed: John Hancock Samuel Adams Joseph Warren John Adams Abigail Adams Richard Clarke Elizabeth Greenleaf Jane Mecom John Lowell Lydia Hancock Henry Cabot Lodge James Bowdoin 1676-1747 and many others. Hans Gram played organ in the late 18th century. The Pierce family's early days in America perhaps coming as early as about 1620 were spent largely in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and their legacy includes Benjamin Pierce governor of New Hampshire 1827-1830 as well as ten generations spent in what is now an historic landmark of seventeenth-century architecture currently serving as a museum in Dorchester Massachusetts. It is difficult to place exactly which Benjamin Pierce and James Pierce this copy belonged to in the large and lively family. Evans 22351 Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West unknown books
1797T22<p>Octavo approx. 7" x 4.5". 5 vols. Eighteenth century Pentateuch vocalized. Text in Hebrew in single column format. Commentary by Rashi. Title pages within borders. Occasional headpieces and ornaments. </p><p><strong>Collation: </strong>Genesis: 1 title 1-194 1-41 13 1-72 1-32; Exodus: lacks title 1-182 1-52 13 1-72 12 24 1-62; Leviticus: 1 title 1-124 1-42 51 13 1-72 1-54 62 72 84 91; Numbers: 1 title1-154 11-3113 1-72 12 24 32; Deuteronomy: 1 title 1-143 1-32 13 1-72 1-31. Exodus lacks title otherwise complete. </p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Rebound in quarter calf. Spines lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Accompanied by slipcase.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Clean and bright. The second volume chipped at head and with some staining to lower gutter impacting up to five lines of text. </p><p><strong>Provenance: </strong>"Sara van Gelder Loewenstamm" to front endpaper of first volume. Collection of Tim Lutz.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>The Proops family were a notable dynasty of Hebrew printers publishers and booksellers in Amsterdam. Solomon ben Yosef d. 1734 likely son of a printer began as a bookseller and in 1704 founded a Hebrew press producing liturgical works as well as texts on halakhah Kabbalah ethics and history. From 1715 his books carried advertisements and in 1730 he issued the first Hebrew sales catalogue.</p><p>After his death guardians and later his sons continued the press using his name until 1751. In 1785 Joseph Proops sold most stock to Kurzbeck of Vienna; his widow and sons printed on a smaller scale until 1812. Solomon ben Abraham Proops his grandson split in 1797 and worked independently until 1827.</p> Proops family of printers hardcover
179631848Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. 1796. Folio 42.2 cm 16.7". 748 pp. 2 final ff. of back matter lacking; 18 plts. <br><br>Bible collector's treasure: the first edition of the Berriman Bible. Noted for its excellent illustrations by several contemporary American engravers including Alexander Anderson Cornelius Tiebout Francis Shallus and William Rollinson this large and handsomely produced lectern-sized folio Bible is printed in two columns with sidenotes including scriptural cross-references and a chronology. The plates include scenes of Adam and Eve in paradise frontispiece the Egyptian midwives drowning the Hebrews' infant sons Judas Maccabaeus slaying Apolloninus and Judas betraying Christ with a kiss; the maps show the presumed historical setting of the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land. One plate in this copy "The Parting of Lot and Abraham" is bound in upside-down.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription in upper margin: "Benjamin Morris to Samuel White Sept. 17th 1826" and with tipped-in typed slip noting presentation to a seminary by the Rev. John Cyrus Madden class of 1893 who had received the book from Charles Reifschneider a descendant of White. Spine with gilt-stamped leather label reading "Deborah Morris to" only! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright Early Bibles of America 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506. Early 19th-century mottled sheep covers framed in blind roll spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; scuffed and rubbed gilt now mostly lost front cover with inkstain front joint cracked but holding and back one holed back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut yes cut away and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including bookplate pressure- and rubber-stamps and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate occasional spotting and smudging some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears a few with tears extending into text some with loss of a few letters. Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking one leaf crudely repaired some time ago last leaf tattered; two final leaves last portion of tables section and the subscribers list lacking with scraps of the "Table of Kindred & Affinity" laid in. => Marked by time and use still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition. Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. hardcover books
1776WRCAM44241BGermantown: Christoph Saur 1776. 49922773pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Hinges cracked but solid extremities worn. Light foxing and soiling moderate wear to first and last few leaves. Good. In a custom cloth box gilt leather label. The third edition of the first European- language Bible printed in America famously known as the "Gun-Wad Bible" after its use in the American Revolutionary War as cartridge paper during the Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible printed from type cast in America. Reputed to have been printed in an edition of 3000 copies most are said to have been destroyed by the British during the battle. The present edition was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition; the son then printed a second edition in 1763. EVANS 14663. HILDEBURN 3336. SABIN 5194. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1768ST12938Zurich: David Gessner 1768. 169 x 94 mm. 6 1/2 x 3 3/4". 272 64 214 of 215 pp. <br/> CONTEMPORARY PAINTED AND BLIND-TOOLED VELLUM DECORATED IN AN ELABORATE AND QUAINT STYLE covers with black and red starburst at center in a lobed red and green frame stamped with stars and tulips yellow cornerpieces stamped with a floral design smooth spine painted red and tooled in blind with flowers Dutch gilded endpapers all edges gilt. ◆Covers faintly soiled extremities lightly rubbed one leaf with two-inch portion torn away at fore margin costing small parts of five closely spaced staves of music occasional foxing of no great consequence; with some serious condition issues internally but an extremely pleasing example of a binding representing German folk art of the period.<br/> <br/> Although lacking the final leaf of text this volume is of considerable interest as an expertly made and decorated so-called "Peasant Binding" a colorful binding style that began in Hungary and spread through Germany the Netherlands and Scandinavia in the 18th century. The use of the word "peasant" in this context is a reference to the obvious influence of folk art on this decoration rather than to the clientele for which it was intended. Bibles prayer books and hymnals in the brightly painted and exuberantly decorated vellum bindings were popular wedding gifts among the bourgeoisie who were both literate and sufficiently affluent to afford such luxuries. David Gessner unknown
