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1720ST19425Nuremberg: J. A. Endter 1720. 433 x 278mm. 17 x 11". 68 p.l. first blank 1-664 1-904 pp. 8 leaves. <br/> ONCE SPECTACULAR AND STILL REMARKABLY IMPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CALF ELABORATELY GILT WITH A PAINTED BROWN STRAPWORK DESIGN OVER REVERSE BEVELLED WOODEN BOARDS two cartouches on each cover with four- or five-line quotations from the Bible initials "J A B" and "D B" and the date "1726" on upper cover the strapwork forming geometric compartments filled with gilt foliate and floral sprays accented with small putti raised bands spine gilt in compartments with central strapwork lozenge containing gilt flower surrounded by foliage two brass and probably later leather clasps dramatic endpapers of green and gilt decorated paper edges gilt and gauffered in ornate lily pattern some expert restoration at spine ends and at top and bottom of joints. With woodcut initials and tailpieces additional engraved title page 11 engraved portraits of the Dukes of Saxony engraved portrait of Luther by Kilian after Sandrart missing an additional portrait of Luther and 28 engraved plates and plans seven of them double-page. ◆Paint and gilt somewhat rubbed other signs of use to the binding but the once-magnificent binding quite sound and still very very striking. Occasional minor foxing stains and thumbing N5 with five-inch curving tear into text no loss two plates with old six- to seven-inch tears into image one mended on verso with discolored cellotape a handful of other minor tears but still a pleasing copy internally generally quite clean and fresh.<br/> <br/> At 5 1/4" thick and with a lavish overall decorative design this is a memorable specimen of a German post-fanfare binding very likely produced as a wedding gift for the couple whose initials appear on the cover. Support for this supposition resides in the binding's quotations from German Scripture traditionally used at Lutheran weddings: Genesis 2:18 "And the Lord God said It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helpmeet for him" and Colossians 3:14 "But above all these things clothe yourselves in love which is the bond of perfection". A perfect family Bible for a young couple of high degree this handsomely illustrated edition is known as the "Kurfürstenbibel" because of its portraits of the Electoral Princes called "Kurfürsten" in German. Such a Bible was originally prepared for Ernst I Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg as a celebration of Martin Luther's Bible translation. The Endters one of the prominent German printing families issued several printings of it beginning in 1641 and continuing to the end of the 18th century. In addition to portraits of Luther and the Protestant princes of Germany it contains the maps views and illustrated half-titles by Jacob van Sandrart and others first used in the edition of 1686. Although it bears some small signs of use the binding remains an object of imposing beauty. J. A. Endter unknown
1800CJW1405London: T. Bensley for T. Macklin final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies 1800. First Printing of this Edition. 484 x 390 mm. 19 x 15 1/4". Seven volumes. <br/> Once splendid contemporary black straight-grain morocco gilt covers framed by Greek key roll palmette roll and multiple gilt rules double raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with rows of alternating star and circlet tools gilt titling turn-ins with gilt chain roll purple endpapers all edges gilt some inexpert but not obvious repairs to joints and backstrips. With more than 100 allegorical headpieces and tailpieces and some 70 SPLENDID LARGE-FOLIO SIZE COPPER PLATES after Fuseli Reynolds West and others. Herbert 1442 and 1651. ◆Extremities rather rubbed boards a bit scuffed but the decorative contemporaneous bindings solid and not without appeal. Plates somewhat foxed mostly to margins mild to moderate offsetting from plates occasional mild offsetting in the text bed but still a fresh wide-margined copy.<br/> <br/> The most prodigious form of scripture in English ever published the Macklin Bible features very large and bold type fine Whatman paper and a series of engravings by some of the most celebrated artists of the period. Like the Boydell "Shakespeare Gallery" also printed by Bensley our Macklin Bible is a vast picture book with illustrations that are grand both in size and emotional impact. According to DNB Macklin 1752/3-1800 announced his intention to produce a lavishly illustrated luxuriously produced folio Bible in 1789 and he spent the next 11 years and £30000 making his dream a reality. His efforts paid off: "the subscription list for 703 copies at £46 1s. apiece was headed by the king the queen and the prince of Wales." Sadly Macklin died just five days after the last engraving was finished and did not live to see his masterpiece become one of the most acclaimed English Bibles. As DNB observes "The Macklin Bible endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain often pirated but never rivalled." Copies of the Macklin Bible were often put into ornate bindings as was the present set; despite the depradations of time the workmanship of a superior London binder remains apparent. T. Bensley for T. Macklin [final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies] unknown
1787271Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid 1787. Very good. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo 211 x 130 mm. Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8 complete. PSALMS: A-E8 complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers a.e.g. in vol. 1 the front joint expertly repaired and tape removed from inner hinges. Preserved in a protective cloth case. INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE ROCOCO BINDINGS COMBINING CHINOISERIE AND NEOCLASSICAL ELEMENTS EXHIBITING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SCOTTISH WORK AT THIS TIME. <br /> <br /> The present example is a striking hybrid of late 18th-century decorative art in Britain the likes of which we have not encountered hitherto. Here "oriental" birds and peacocks are juxtaposed with patriotic depictions of Britannia uncharacteristically surmounted by a fleur-de-lis bold anchors columns sunbursts dripping garlands flowers sheaves of wheat and urns. Presented in the Chippendale style the present binder who is as yet unnamed introduces rococo ornaments while enclosing all of the above with an unmistakably neoclassical greek-key roll. <br /> <br /> EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROCOCO BINDINGS OF THIS QUALITY ARE RARE PARTICULARLY THOSE EXECUTED IN SCOTLAND. <br /> <br /> Rococo book arts in Scotland have been almost completely unexplored on account of the paltry number of examples with which we are able to study. Robert Adam's designs for the bindings of his "Ruins of Spalatro" 1764 is a bold statement of the neoclassical for he was justly celebrated. But we now know that Adam was not exclusively "Grecian." David Pullins' heroic archival research in Sir John Soane's Museum has shown that Adam received three previously unexamined commissions for a seemingly antithetical kind of decoration which he calls "neoclassical chinoiserie" specifically Adam's drawings for an unrealized chinoiserie looking-glass dated 1769 for Edwin Lascelles 1st Earl of Harewood. SOURCE: "Robert Adam's Neoclassical Chinoiserie" in: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture online. We would argue that the present bindings exhibit such a blend of Chippendale chinoiserie rococo and neoclassical. For a general note on English "Chippendale" and "Chinoiserie" bindings see G.D. Hobson "English Bindings of J.R. Abbey" p. 126.<br /> <br /> ¶ Our bindings may be linked to four others -- all greatly inferior -- which share the large "eagle" tool in common as noted by Mirjam Foot:<br /> <br /> 1. British Library Davis 253 Bible Edinburgh 1790 = Henry Davis Gift Vol. II No. 283; <br /> 2. National Library of Scotland F.4.e.9 Bible Psalms Edinburgh: Assigns of A. Kincaid 1789; <br /> 3. Washington Cathedral Library Bible Edinburgh 1789; <br /> 4. Glasgow University Library DXC 48-48A Bible Cambridge 1792 Psalms Glasgow 1793. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: red morocco bookplate of "MARION MALLOCH 1794" inside both volumes -- sold by us to a private collector in 2007 -- bought back by us in 2023. <br /> <br /> ¶ REFERENCES: ESTC 91765 Darlow & Moule 1319; ESTC 91766. Assigns of Alexander Kincaid unknown
172812597s-Graavenhaage Pieter de Hondt 1728. 3 delen in 3 banden 2 titelprent gegraveerde opdracht 148 2 2 149-280 titelprent 2 gegraveerde opdracht 160 p. Origineel blind- en goud-bestempeld Leer met ribben Folio imperiaal papier H. 47 x B. 33 x D. 4 cm. De tekstbladen zijn in de marges hier en daar heel licht gevlekt verder een goed exemplaar. Luxe uitgave van de prentbijbel van Pieter de Hondt bestaande uit 214 gravures door Gerard Hoet Arnold Houbraken en Bernard Picart met bijgevoegde tekst van Jacques Saurin. De prentbijbel is geïllustreerd met 2 titelprenten en 212 gravures waarvan 29 dubbel paginagroot. Alle gravures hebben een onderschrift in 6 verschillende talen resp. Hebreeuws Engels Duits Latijn Frans en Nederlands en bij elke gravure is de tekst van Jaques Saurin gevoegd. De begeleidende tekst is fraai versierd met gegraveerde kapitalen en grote kop- en sluitvignetten die betrekking hebben op de betreffende bijbelse geschiedenis. PRINT BIBLE 3 parts in 3 bindings 2 title-print engraved dedication 148 2 149-280 title-print 2 engraved dedication 160 p. Original blind-stamped and gold-stamped Leather with ribs Folio H. 47 x W. 33 x D. 4 cm. The text sheets are somewhat spotted in the margins.Luxury edition of Pieter de Hondt's picture bible consisting of 214 engravings by Gerard Hoet Arnold Houbraken and Bernard Picart with accompanying text by Jacques Saurin. The picture bible is illustrated with 2 title prints and 212 engravings 29 of which are double-page sized. All engravings have a caption in six different languages respectively Hebrew English German Latin French and Dutch and each engraving is accompanied by the text of Jacques Saurin. The accompanying text is handsomely decorated with engraved capitals and a large head and closing vignettes relating to the relevant biblical history. A fine set. s-Graavenhaage, Pieter de Hondt hardcover
1738ST20462Zurich: David Gessner 1740 1738 1738. 162 x 90 mm. 6 3/8 x 3 1/2". 270 pp.; 192 16 pp.; 64 pp. <br/> LOVELY PIERCED VERMEIL SILVER BINDING over dark brown sharkskin the metalwork with intricately twining strapwork accented with acanthus leaves a basket of flowers and two eagles elongated vermeil head and tail caps over spine two fore-edge clasps gilt patterned paper pastedowns all edges gilt. Housed in a fine modern brown morocco felt-lined clamshell box. First two works with extra engraved illustrated title page. Ink gift inscription on front flyleaf: "Helen McDowell/ from her/ affectionate/ illegible/ with sincere/ good wishes/ for her future/ happiness/ August 1864." For the binding: Hayward "Silver Bindings from the J. R. Abbey Collection" 14. Sharkskin with just a hint of chafing occasional mild browning or foxing to leaves but QUITE A FINE COPY clean and fresh internally and the binding shining and unworn.<br/> <br/> Beautifully executed and wonderfully preserved this New Testament is an excellent example of the vermeil bindings--that is silver-gilt or gilded/gilt silver--produced in Switzerland and southern Germany during the Baroque period. As is typical this binding is without a hallmark but it closely resembles another New Testament bound in shagreen and vermeil described and pictured as item #14 in Hayward's "Silver Bindings from the J. R. Abbey Collection" which Hayward indicates was produced in Zurich in the early 18th century. These intricate silver bindings were popular for religious works presenting what Hayward calls a "combination of ostentatious wealth and piety" and this one was executed with great skill featuring graceful lines and delicately rendered details. There are two main types of silver bindings from the period: engraved and pierced bindings like the present example which were especially popular in the 17th century; and embossed or repoussé bindings which came into fashion in the late 17th and early 18th century. Of the two the engraved and pierced bindings are generally valued more highly because they required more time and skilled labor. David Gessner unknown
17956211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club.<br /> <br /> ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown
1743P49<p><strong>Summary: </strong>Germantown: Christopher Saur 1743. 4to 9.5 X 7.5 in. The first Bible printed in America after Elliot's Indian Bible of the 1660s and the first American Bible printed in a European language. A very good copy in original beveled boards.</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> There are several clippings pertaining to this edition of the Bible mounted on the front pastedown. Printed general title page 1743 laid down with loss to the lower border and imprint which have been replaced in facsimile. Ornamental headpiece at the beginning of Genesis. Text in two column black letter with cross references and short summaries at the beginning of each chapter. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the 34th edition of the Halle Bible with books three and four Esra and three Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. The present copy has "parallelen" spelled correctly a second issue of the title had this word misspelled as "parllelen" as it was made in haste. Printed New Testament title page 1743. Ornamental headpiece at the beginning of Matthew. Concludes with a Register 3 pp.</p><p><strong>Collation:</strong> 2 A-Z4 2A-2Z4 3A-3Z4; 4A-4Z4; 5A-5Z4 6A-6I4 6J2 Old Testament; A-Z4 2A-2M4 2N2 New Testament. <u>Lacks</u> Rrr-Sss Psalm 23-56.</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Period full sheep over beveled oak boards. Sometime expertly rebacked with the original spine laid on. A portion of one strap perished with the original hasp and other strap remaining. Binding chipped in various places but nicely restored.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Some dampstaining in places most prevalent to first few leaves; some toning occasional soiling and spotting as typical; small hole to final leaf with loss of a few letters; a few instances of shaved catchwords in places; introductory leaf remargined with loss of a few letters to margins.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>1200 copies of this Bible were printed by Christopher Saur. He was a man of conviction in matters of morality and religion and he sought to produce a Bible that his fellow Germans could read in their native tongue. He appealed to Germany where Dr. Heinrich Luther provided him with the type in exchange for a presentation copy. It took him three years to complete the printing of the Bible. Saur made every effort to promote the reading of the Scriptures. His asking price was eighteen shillings but his quoted as saying that "to the poor and needy we have no price." An estimated 120 copies have survived making copies of the 1743 edition quite scarce.</p><p><strong>References:</strong> D&M 4240; Evans 5127; Wright 31.</p> Christopher Saur hardcover
1714E52C1ENFMRTGDordrecht Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam 1714. Large folio 42.5 x 27.5 cm. Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur Dordrecht Gold-tooled sprinkled calf 1738 sewn on 6 double cords each board with a large centrepiece 4 cornerpieces and double fillets; richly gold-tooled spines also on the raised bands with gold-tooled morocco spine labels; gold-tooled board edges mottled turn-ins edges sprinkled red and green; headbands worked in tan and white. With engraved general title-page letterpress title-pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha and half-title for the Prophets series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal his larger set a complete set of 184 full-page and 28 double-page engraved illustration plates by various artists including A. de Blois J. van Vianen and J. Mulder after G. Hoet B. Picart A. Houbraken and others. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 20 302; 2 134 12 164 2 66 ll. Beautifully illustrated large folio Dutch States Bible Statenbijbel with 6 six maps including a world map and a complete set of the striking illustrations drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart and others. The maps belong to the larger of two series by Daniël Stoopendaal and were explicitly made for the Keur Bibles with for example Bible scenes rather than figures from classical mythology decorating the world map. With the armorial bookplate of Hendrik Gerardsz. van Couwenhoven 1711-1792 and a short handwritten genealogy of Couwenhoven's family from Couwenhoven's marriage in 1738 to the birth of this last child in 1766. The binding appears to date from the middle quarters of the 18th century so it may have been bound and presented for the occasion of the 1738 wedding. In very good condition. The binding is slightly worn at the joints the headcap of volume 1 is damaged and there are a few other minor surface imperfections but it remains generally in very good condition.l Darlow & Moule 3337; for the maps: Poortman & Augusteijn pp. 196-203 G II 2nd state maps 1-6; for the prints: Poortman Bijbel en prent II pp. 140-145. ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks hardcover
1791373866Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf panelled in gilt and blind spine with raised bands in six compartments tooled in gilt on either side of each band red and black morocco labels expert repairs. Moderate to heavy foxing repaired tears to text leaves and plates. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. "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.<br /> <br /> Dubbed "the Baskerville of America" by Benjamin Franklin Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarto Bible almost simultaneously. Published immediately after the ratification of the Bill of Rights the folio edition arguably his magnum opus opens with a note from Thomas situating it as an important accompaniment to this national development: "The civil authority hath set an example of moderation and candor to all Christians by securing equal privileges to all; and it must be their ardent and united wish independently of foreign aid to be supplied with copies of the sacred Scriptures the foundation of their Religion - a religion which furnishes motives to the faithful performance of every patriotic civil and social duty."<br /> <br /> In preparing the work Thomas compared the language of "not less than eight" significant English Bibles most but not all of which were printings of the King James translation and then had every page of the present edition examined by "the Clergymen of Worcester and . other capable persons." <br /> <br /> In keeping with his patriotism all the plates are by American engravers an expensive undertaking: the majority by Joseph Seymour with others by John Norman Samuel Hill and Amos Doolittle. It is unusual to find complete copies with all fifty plates. The plate list often lacking is present in this copy. The work was issued either in one volume or in two volumes as here the latter including an additional general title page for the second volume bound in as a cancel.<br /> <br /> A celebrated American Bible from one of the young country's most important printers. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497; Sabin 5172; Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88 Isaiah Thomas unknown
1788375629Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1788. Numerous woodcut illustrations including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. Modern calf red morocco lettering piece. Repair to final leaf affecting the final three lines frontispiece paper-backed with repaired tears and small area of loss in the image a few leaves likely supplied from another copy. Numerous woodcut illustrations including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. A cornerstone for any collection of American children's books American illustration or American Bibles this classic children's book is an American reprinting of the edition first published by Hodgson in London in 1783. Containing nearly 500 illustrations it is the first Bible printed in the United States specifically for children. The rebus format of the small volume presents the young reader with famous Bible stories in an amusing format that encourages reading puzzle solving and Bible study.<br /> <br /> "A touchstone of eighteenth-century American book illustration this 'curious' children's Bible contains nearly five hundred woodcuts made by American artists. The most ambitious woodcut book produced in America up to that time it is one of the sixty-five children's book titles produced by the pioneer publisher of children's literature and preeminent early American printer Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 who had learned the art of engraving while apprenticed in his youth to the Boston printer Zechariah Fowle" American Treasures of the Library of Congress online exhibition.<br /> <br /> Complete copies of the first hieroglyphic and children's Bible printed in America are very rare with even Brinley's copy lacking a leaf. This is a book that saw extremely heavy use and given its young audience inevitable if often loving misuse. Welch 510; Rosenbach 128; Evans 20961; O'Callaghan p.33; Hamilton 122; Rumball-Petre 167; Brinley 5805; Sabin 17990. Not in Hills Isaiah Thomas unknown
173833238-165Zurich Johann Heinrich Bürckli 1738. 2 cols. 386 pp.; 256 pp.; 88 pp. 8vo c. 165 x 95 x 25 mm. 18th century Zurich Vermeil binding fine chased goldplated silver over wooden boards covered with black velvet edges gilt. Exlibris. Zurich Johann Heinrich Bürckli 1738. Attractive New Testament in the Zurich version printed for domestic use preciously and splendidly bound in a much sought-after Zurich Vermeil binding fine chased goldplated silver over wooden boards. This N.T. is a typical example out of one of the roughly thirty editions printed in Zurich during the 18th century. It is remarkable that Ambrosius Lobwasser 1515-1584 as a Lutheran thereby paved the way for Calvinist liturgical songs in German speaking countries cf. MGG VIII 1075 by using for his metrical psalms the Geneva book of Psalms prepared by Marot and Beza between 1532 and 1560. His object was to popularize in Germany the melodies of the French Psalter of the beauty of which he had received a deep impression during a long sojourn in Berry; and thus he adhered to the texts which served as channels for these melodies in order that the meter and versification might accord with the French model. The book is housed in an attractive contemporary Zurich binding. Zurich was the most important place of manufacture for Vermeil bindings and shows the design that was common there at this time. Forming a wide frame on both covers and the back it is composed of leafy scroll- and lattice-work with flower and ornamental depictions. In the center of both covers is a small pelican engraved as a symbold for Jesus Christ or as a sign of mercy or possibly an owner sign. This binding is uncommon in that the silver cagework extends round the edges of the covers.- The work shows considerable craftsmanship and is in pristine and fine condition. - Not in VD 18 nor Darlow/Moule; cf. Bibliothek Otto Schäfer Europäische Einbandkunst 1992 121; not in Leemannn-van Elck Bibelsammlung im Grossmünster zu Zürich 1945 but cf. no. 40; the same Buchschmuck der Zürcher-Bibeln 1938 124; cf. Lösel Zürcher Goldschmiedekunst 1983 pl. 256-257; cf. Bibelsammlung Stuttgart E 1347 in similary binding but published by Gessner in 1738; cf. Henkel/Schoene Emblemata col. 811. BINDINGS ; HELVETICA:ALLGEMEIN ; BIBLES ; Zurich, Joh(ann) Heinrich Bürckli hardcover
1800512129Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. First edition of The Macklin Bible a masterpiece of book design that has been called 'the last of the great Bibles.' Complete in six volumes without the posthumously published Apocrypha. Elephant Folio 19' x 15.5' and . Full red morocco covers with gilt rolled Greek meander borders spines with double raised bands gilt in seven compartments all edges gilt gilt dentelle marbled endpapers. Sturdy bindings are remarkably solid despite the demands of these heavy textblocks. Very Good ex-libris from the John Wilson Collection of Multnomah County Library with small bookplates on paste downs a few penciled notes to versos of title pages but otherwise unmarked. Wide margins. Bindings scuffed and soiled rubbed along joints wear at heads and tails. Contents generally bright with typical offsetting from engravings; many tissue guards still present. Handwritten 2pp. 1889 note from London bookseller Henry Sotheran tipped-in to Vol. 1 wherein he apologizes for the lack of The Apocrypha which was published in 1816. Exhaustively illustrated throughout with engravings including 70 full-page copperplates after Benjamin West Angelica Kauffman Henry Fuseli William Artaud Joshua Reynolds Philip James de Loutherbourg and others. Weighing in at well over 100 lbs this Macklin Bible will ship in multiple boxes and will require additional fees for international delivery. Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin hardcover
1743WRCAM47841Germantown: Christoph Saur 1743. 49952777pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps. Clasps renewed corners worn head of spine expertly repaired. Contemporary and later manuscript notations on front pastedown and rear flyleaf. Titlepage with neat marginal repairs some light stains. Very good. The first European-language Bible printed in America and the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian bibles of the 1660s. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. Believed to have been printed in an edition of 1200 copies of which slightly over one-tenth are known to have survived. Christoph Saur was a native of Wittgenstein Germany who settled in Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. There are three variant titlepages noted for this work of which this is the second. A landmark in American religious and printing history. DARLOW & MOULE 4240. EVANS 5128. HILDEBURN 804. ARNDT 47. SEIDENSTICKER p.20. ESTC W18551. Christoph Saur hardcover books
172033133-1260Nuremberg J. A. Endter 1720. With engr. illus. title 12 full-page engr. portraits by J. C. Claussner 9 plates with portraits of biblical figures 4 double-page maps with fine baroque cartouches and illustrations 2 double-page plans 21 engr. pictorial titles and plates some double-page and folding several woodcut initials and vignettes. 2 cols. Printed title in red and black; 67 unn. leaves 664 pp.; 904 pp. 8 unn. leaves. Large folio. Contemporary calf in the style of Swedish gilt leather bindings richly gold-tooled in a panel design with flowers and ornaments flower tool in center and corners of frames both covers lettered each with 2 Bible quotations spine on raised bands with richly gilt rococo ornamentation in compartments 2 brass clasps new ties goffered edges marbled end- papers all edges gilt slightly restored. Nuremberg J. A. Endter 1720. A beautiful example of the so-called "Kurfürsten Bible" also called "Weimar Bible" or "Ernestinian Bible" Present here is a copy of the 12th edition this Bible appeared until 1768. Its first printing commissioned by Duke Ernest the Pious of Saxe-Weimar was in 1641. Editors were Johann Gerhard 1582-1637 theologian at Jena and his successor Salomon Glassius 1593-1656 a.o. It was the most popular German Bible of its time using Luther's text of 1545 and including the Apocrypha. There is a glossary and each chapter is accompanied by texts from S. Glassius' "Biblisches Handbüchlein" meant as a help for the lay reader. A detailed history of the conception and printing of this epochal Bible is given in the preliminaries. This edition contains a wealth of pictorial matter the title showing Moses and Christ to the left and right of the pillars of a temple which bears the coat of arms of the Duke. It is followed by the portraits of the Saxon electors with their coats of arms and Martin Luther: some engravings include small views More than 30 full-page plates show biblical characters like Moses Isaiah Ezekiel Daniel and the 4 evangelists Noah's ark 2 plans of Jerusalem 4 maps 1 folding plate showing camps of the Israelites. 18 plates serve as titles to various books of the Bible with scenes from the following contents in 12 small compartments. The last illustration is the double-page picture of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Charles V 1530 the full text of which is included. - Slight browning or foxing in parts some wormholes and tears repaired. Fine copy in a rare nice binding engravings in dark impressions. - Bibelsammlung Stuttgart E 1198; Jahn 79ff.; cf. Graesse I 379; this edition not in Darlow/Moule Lüthi etc. BIBLES ; KURFÜRSTENBIBEL ; RELIGION / THEOLOGY ; ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BEFORE 1900 ; Nuremberg, J. A. Endter hardcover
1743536711743. SAUR BIBLE. Biblia Das ist: Die Helige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments Nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers mit Jedes Capitels Furtzen Summarien Ach Bengefugten Vielen und Richtigen Parallelen; Rebst dem Gewohnlichen Anhang des Dritten und Vierten Buchs Esra und des Dritten Buchs der Maccabaer. Germantown: Christoph Saur 1743. 4to. 4 995. 1 277 7 pp. printed in double columns. Ornamental capitals. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards tooled brass clasps raised bands. Repaired loss to foot of spine made up in matching leather; lower half of second column of one leaf expertly supplied in facsimile; boards rubbed; toning and light scattered foxing else a very good copy. Evans 5127. Darlow & Moule 4240. Hildeburn 804. Seidensticker p. 20. The first European language Bible printed in America and the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The German text is based on Martin Luther's translation by way of the 34th Halle edition with some books of the Apocrypha III and IV Esra and III Maccabees supplied from the pietistic Berlenburg Bible. It was printed with type sent from Frankfurt by Heinrich Ehrenfried Luther who received twelve of the completed Bibles in return. Though Saur was criticized by the Lutherans in Philadelphia for the ideological slant of his Bible the combination of translations and Protestant traditions did much to keep Saur above much of the local German sectarian conflict. Believed to have been printed in an edition of 1200 copies slightly over one-tenth are known to have survived. Christoph Saur 1693-1758 was a native of Wittgenstein Germany who settled in Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. A very nice copy of a landmark in American religious and printing history. unknown
17636390Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. Very Good/Printing a grand bible had been Baskerville's cherished ambition but the royal privilege belonged exclusively to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Consequently Baskerville applied and was elected printer to the University of Cambridge. An innovator a micromanager a workaholic and an exacting perfectionist he threw everything into the bible project. He invented a stiffer blacker ink for it designed the types and the page layout and demanded smoother paper than was generally available. Ultimately he emptied his own bank accounts and borrowed money when the support of subscribers failed. Indeed he was not able to sell the entire edition of 1250 copies and ended up remaindering more than a third of the press run for pence on the guinea to his enormous personal disappointment and financial pain. The book remains a landmark in the history of English printing "one of the most beautiful books printed in the world" according to the bibliographer Frognall Dibdin a sentiment frequently echoed in Great Britain. This copy with the third longest list of subscribers ending with York. . Imperial folio 50 cm; 573 leaves. Text in double columns. In straight-grain blue morocco with gold-tooled border. Rebacked with original gold-tooled spine laid down. All edges gilt. Later reinforcements to joints and hinges. Light foxing on first and last leaves. Old bookplate on pastedown. Extra shipping charges will apply. References: Gaskell "John Baskerville a Bibliography" 26; Rothschild 2640; Darlow & Moule 857. John Baskerville unknown books
1791345231Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. Contemporary calf red morocco lettering piece. Expert repairs at top and bottom of spine. Housed in a morocco backed box. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. "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. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497 Isaiah Thomas unknown
1735ST18632Amsterdam: Petrus Shenk 1735-38. First Edition in Dutch. 415 x 264 mm. 16 3/8 x 10 3/8". Entirely complete with continuous pagination but with a jump in page numbering from the end of book XIII to the beginning of XIV as usual. 15 parts in eight volumes. Translated by Florentius H. J. van Halen. <br/> HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY VELLUM covers with large gilt entrelac centerpiece framed with gilt floral rule with bouquet-like cornerpieces gilt floral border raised bands compartments richly gilt titles and volume numbers handwritten in ink on spines all edges gilt. With head- and tailpieces 15 engraved titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes and complete with frontispiece two engraved portraits of the author and the engraver the latter with shorter margins probably tipped-in and 760 OFTEN STRIKING COPPER ENGRAVINGS on 758 plates one with partial hand coloring a few double-page. Front pastedown of first volume with handwritten note in French on lined paper; with additional black & white title to first work erroneously dated 1728. Nissen ZBI 3661; see also: Faber du Faur "German Baroque Literature" p. 472. Trivial soiling to the vellum the seventh volume with a faint marginal dampstain affecting a few quires but not touching engravings the odd negligible blemish but AN OUTSTANDING SET the very attractive original bindings showing only insignificant wear and THE CONTENTS ESPECIALLY FRESH AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH VERY FINE IMPRESSIONS OF THE PLATES.<br/> <br/> This is the first Dutch translation of Scheuchzer's "Sacred Nature" one of the most splendid German illustrated books of the 18th century presenting what surely is the most impressive combination of biblical exegesis and scientific illustration to be found in any printed book. First published in 1731-35 as the "Physica Sacra" in Latin and as the "Kupfer-Bibel" in German so-named for the amazing array of copperplate engravings this work is arranged according to the progression of books in the Bible citing passages from those chapters where phenomena from the natural world are mentioned. The typical pattern here includes a textual citation followed by the author's often lengthy remarks on the passage and in many cases a dramatic engraving to illustrate what is said. The plates are identical to the earlier editions retaining the inscriptions in Latin and German and are the work of Johann-Melchior Fuseli of the well-known Zurich family of 18th and 19th century artists. The engraved scenes are always executed with great skill are generally very animated and are often fascinating. Of the 760 images meant to illustrate the text many are strictly or primarily depictions of biblical scenes; several are simply illustrations of specimens of nature; and a large number perhaps half offer a kind of combination. An example of this last type includes a wonderful scene showing the birth of Man as related in Genesis 1:26-27 depicting not only a startled Adam in his fecund paradise but also 10 images of fetuses placentas and the skeletons of children attached like mounted specimens to the architectural frame of the illustration. According to Faber du Faur it is in this work that "the Baroque attains philosophically as well as artistically its high point and its conclusion. It is the last of those elegant works which do not really contain illustrations to a text but which are in effect composed of splendid plates with a text to accompany them." Scheuchzer 1672-1733 was a prolific naturalist who promoted at every opportunity the most modern scientific ideas though without wanting to risk the accusation of being irreverent. He says that the present work represents an attempt at finding a harmony between reason and revelation though it can also be seen as an effort to promulgate progressive theories under the venerable cloak of biblical commentary. The bibliographies disagree about the number of plates that ought to be present in this work and in other editions but ours corresponds to copies previously sold at auction as complete. Copies of the "Physica Sacra" and its translations show up regularly for sale but almost never does one see the work both complete and as here with a clean and fresh text in remarkably well-preserved and attractive contemporary bindings. Petrus Shenk unknown
1777182896London: Oxford University Press 1777. First Edition; First Printing. Fine Binding. Very Good in decorative leather boards. Many page edges mended with additional stationary by previous owner. Light foxing throughout text block edges. Light stain on bottom text block edge. Oxford University Press unknown
17485985Gorinchem 1748. Large folio. Nicolas Goetzee Contemporary calf over wooden boards spines ribbed and richly gilt in a fine light flower design with broad richly ornamental gilt borders and elegant gilt inner-panel with large gilt flowers at the four corners and large flowered gilt central ornaments. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Punt after J. de Wit large engraved vignette by J. Punt on title 12 double-page folding engraved maps by W.A. Bachine including a plan of Jerusalem and 61 double-page engraved plates by Jan Luyken including 2 with four half-page illustrations to one plate and extra mounted on endpapers of both volumes 8 half-page engraved bible-illustrations by G. de Jode all richly coloured by hand. 2 volumes. 12 19 3 342 2 151; 4 12 172 4 77 ll. Edition by Nicolas Goetzee of the Dutch Staten Bijbel States Bible the authorized translation first published in 1637 newly illustrated with 12 folding double-page maps each map accompanied by a folding double-page leaf with explanatory text and extra illustrated with the large series of Bible scenes by Jan Luyken generally known as Icones Biblicae and originally published without a letterpress title or text by Pieter Mortier in 1708. The series consisted of 62 large folio prints including the title-print not included by Goetzee. The series is here in second state with the address of P. Mortier replaced by J. Covens & Mortier. The text is printed in Roman type and our copy is bound in a fine richly gold-tooled Dutch binding of the period.In good condition.l Bijbel en prent 21 idem with the Luyken-series; Cat. Bijbel-tentoonstelling Amst. 1914 1255; Poortman I p. 248; for Luyken's print-bible: Poortman II p. 131; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen 429. ABE CAT Bibles Sermons & Psalmbooks hardcover
176369256Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BASKERVILLE John. BASKERVILLE John. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763.<br> <br> First edition with the list of subscribers in the third state ending with "The Hon. Charles York Esq; Attorney General." Two large folio volumes in one 19 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 480 x 311 mm. Complete with 573 leaves. Text ends on leaf 13E1 and is followed by an Index and Tables a-e f1. List of subscribers bound in after title-page and dedication. Text in double columns.<br> <br> Beautifully bound in early 19th-century full diced tan calf. Boards elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt and blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front board lettered in gilt reading "John Miles/ West End/ Hampstead." Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Gilt dentelles. Back board with some very mild scuffing and a tiny bit of worming to head of board and at top and bottom of outer hinge. Some light foxing to first title-page and preliminary leaves but text is very clean. With the dates of births and deaths of the Miles family in old ink manuscript on the front free endpaper. Overall a very good clean copy.<br> <br> Originally priced four guineas in sheets for subscribers "the edition consisted of 1250 copies of which 556 were remaindered in 1768 and bought by the London bookseller R. Baldwin at 36s. each.Baldwin was offering copies at three guineas in sheets in 1771" Gaskell.<br> <br> "One of the most beautifully printed books in the world" Dibdin. This edition "has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen" T.B. Reed A History of the Old English Letter Foundries p. 279. Gaskell declared that the title-page to the New Testament is "a perfect page of fine printing."<br> <br> Although the Baskerville Bible is now recognized as one of the greatest Bibles of all time it was initially a financial failure. Costing £2000 to print the remaining stock about half of the edition was remaindered five years after publication to a London bookseller. It was Baskerville's last great book.<br> <br> "Aesthetically the highest point in English Bible printing so far was John Baskerville's folio printed at Cambridge in 1763. To achieve his ambition to print a folio Bible Baskerville had to become University Printer on not very advantageous terms. The Bible uses his types paper and ink and shows his characteristic 'machine-made' finish: very smooth and even in colour and impression with glossy black ink on smooth paper. The design is traditional but the quality of material and workmanship is so high and the conventions are so delicately modified and consistently applied that the result is extremely impressive" The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day p. 464.<br> <br> Darlow & Moule 857. ESTC T93106. Gaskell Baskerville 26. Herbert 1146. Huntington Library Great Books in Great Editions 6.<br> <br> HBS 69256.<br> <br> $15000. Printed by John Baskerville unknown
1800173564London: printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley 1800. The grandest Bible ever printed in Britain First Macklin edition of the Bible handsomely bound. "The most ambitious edition produced in Britain often pirated but never rivalled" ODNB this Bible is a masterpiece of book art published at the apogee of British copperplate engraving and involving some of the best artists of its day. The Bible dedicated to the king was published serially between 1791 and 1800 in 70 parts each at £1. 1s. Thomas Macklin 1752-1800 began work on the project in the year following the opening of his famous Poets' Gallery in Pall Mall. The prospectus issued in 1789 explained that he was planning to add scripture pictures to his exhibition to be then reproduced in a "magnificent Bible". The paintings were realised by several artists including Hamilton Fuseli and Loutherbourg and exhibited at the Poets' Gallery between 1790 and 1796. Initially promising 60 plates the project eventually included 71 some of which never appeared in Macklin's exhibitions. Most of the headpiece and tailpiece vignettes were designed by Loutherbourg the type was cut by Joseph Jackson and his apprentice Vincent Figgins and the paper made by Whatman. The Bible took 11 years to complete and the publication costs exceeding £30000 almost bankrupted Macklin. Though the final engraving was finished five days before his death the last of the vignettes was not completed for another six weeks and he consequently never saw the finished work. Some copies of the Bible were bound in a fine neoclassical style by contemporary London binders particularly Staggemeier and Welcher. This set is unsigned but the treatment of the spine appears closer to the work of Kalthoeber see Maggs Cat. 1212 II no. 164. This set is bound in six volumes as recommended in the instructions to the binder vol. I. However sets are sometimes found bound in seven. 6 vols large folio 458 x 370 mm. With 71 copper engraved plates after Fuseli and others 113 wood engraved vignette head- and tailpieces. Contemporary diced russia spines with raised bands compartments lettered and tooled in gilt elaborate gilt frames to covers incorporating foliate and flower tools board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt leather inner hinges marbled endpapers edges gilt silk bookmarkers. Bound with half-titles. A few trivial marks and light scuffs to covers small cosmetic repair to rear cover of vol. I superficial splits to a couple of joints subsequently retouched and now firm occasional foxing to contents and offsetting from plates else clean and bright. A very good set. ESTC T123175; Herbert 1441; Lowndes I p. 192. Maggs Bros Ltd Bookbinding in the British Isles Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Cat. 1212 Part II 1996. hardcover
1789101717Philadelphia: William Young 1790 i.e. 1789. First edition thus. 12mo. 816 pp. with separate New Testament title-page. Collation: A-2L¹². Contemporary sheep; covers worn with some loss to leather exposing boards front joint split and holding by one cord rear joint with old sewed repair contents toned and dust-soiled a few gatherings worn at fore-edge touching text U1 "Song of Solomon" torn and damaged with loss to text and old paper repairs FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND ENGLISH BIBLE PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES and the first English Bible printed after the adoption of the Constitution. It follows Robert Aitken's Bible published in Philadelphia 1781-2. Printing of Young's 12mo Bible which Hills states was advertised for use in schools was already underway when Aitken's 1789 application to Congress for an exclusive right to publish Bibles in America was rejected. Evans notes that "this edition was published in 1789 although dated 1790" and quotes from the publisher's advertisement: "this edition has two strong recommendations to preference it is cheaper than any imported edition; and it is composed entirely of American manufacture." Young followed with a 24mo edition with metrical psalms in 1790.Rare: ESTC locates three copiestwo at AAS NYPL. Complete and in its original binding.PROVENANCE: contemporary birth records on verso of New Testament title-page for Vannosdoll family; Catherine Pellar early ownership inscription on title-page REFERENCE: ESTC W4491; Evans 22345; Herbert 1348; Hills 25 24mo issue; Rumball-Petre America's First Bibles Appendix no. 13 "Second Protestant Bible in English"; Sabin 5168; not in Darlow and Moule William Young hardcover
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare American Bible with the Great Seal of the U.S. on the Title. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown books
