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18197970New York: American Bible Society stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw 1819. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.5". 705 1 215 lacking 1/2 1 blank pp. <br><br>Early American Bible Society Bible following its first which appeared in 1816. This stereotyped New York Bible was done from the same plates as Fanshaw's 1818 Long Primer Octavo and this 1819 example is seen institutionally far more often in microform copies than in genuine holdings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front cover with blind-stamped logo of the American Bible Society; title-page with inked inscription reading "Mary Ann Lanings word obscured August 24 1823." . <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title.<br>Â Â Â Â Well used but not abused; an evocative copy. American Bible Society (stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw) hardcover books
18246030Boston: J.H.A. Frost 1824. 12mo 18.2 cm 7.1". 379 5 1 blank pp. <br><br>Early American edition of the translation by eminent Swiss Protestant Jean Frédéric Ostervald based on a Paris edition and following 1811 and 1814 U.S. printings. Likely intended for use among French Canadians and French émigrés in the United States this is a good example of an early American printing of a complete Testament either Old or New in French. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep worn and abraded spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting others with varying degrees of age-toning. J.H.A. Frost hardcover books
1937WRCLIT76570San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press 1937. Folio 40 x 28 cm. Cloth and boards paper spine label. Fore-corners bruised collector's bookplate ink location note in corner of pastedown otherwise a very good copy. One of a total edition of three hundred copies printed in double columns in black and red with decorated initials at the Grabhorn Press. According to the Press bibliography thirty-five of those were 'special' copies containing a leaf opening a book of the Bible a leaf with a chapter-head decoration or a leaf with one or more ornamental initial letters -- the present leaf is from II Kings LL3 and prints two chapter openings each with an ornamental initial letter. It bears a presentation inscription from California collector Albert M. Bender to Dr. Jacob Weinstein. GRABHORN 275. Printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press hardcover books
1822FF071Oxford:: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Samuel Collingwood 1822. 1822. 8vo. 1039 pp. Paper lightly browned causing edge painting to look browned. Original dark brown straight grained morocco elaborately stamped in blind a.e.g.; neatly rebacked edges scuffed inner hinges re-enforced. Very good. Leather bookplate of Sydney Sanner. With fore-edge painting of "FOLKSTONE." An early painting date unknown. PROVENANCE: Navy blue morocco bookplate of Sydney Sanner possibly a freemason and if so this could be the copy of Judge James Sydney Sanner 1872-1956 Supreme Court of Montana. He was also involved with inventing mining machinery. He died in Los Angeles. Earlier inscription of "Emily C. Hammersley daughter of my and in another hand: Great Aunt . . . Constance Maria Stopford Ridgeway 1920." Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood, 1822. hardcover books
1883300656Thick 4to. Illustrated with maps woodcuts and full-page engraved portraits and views after Francis Frith and others. Full contemporary gilt and blindstamped brown morocco spine with raised bands gilt stamped inner dentelles marbled endpapers a.e.g. rubbing; upper hinge starting. Good-very good. The Paddock/Burgess family bible with a manuscript genealogy tracing family history to William Brewster who arrived on the Mayflower. A.J. Holman hardcover books
15042666New York: Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees pour la Société Biblique Americaine D. Fanshaw Imprimeur 183940. 8vo. 819 1 blank pp. 261 1 blank pp. <br><br>Only the second edition in the U.S. of the Martin edition of the French Bible. Prior to 1835 the American Bible Society favored using the text of the 1805 French Bible.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: This copy is exquisitely bound in full black leather in good imitation of morocco elaborately stamped in gold on the covers forming a five-element frame or border with gilt tooling on the board edges and with gilt inner dentelles. The spine has slightly raised bands and elaborate gold stamping in its compartments. => This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: The name "Sarah B. Leverett" is lettered in gilt on the front cover and the same name is given in precise gothic calligraphy on the front free endpaper. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto dulling outermost elements of gilt border only on front cover just at those corners. Evidence to endpapers of the volume's once having been sewn into a chemise or wrapper; old notes just discernable not really readable in a minute hand on front free endpaper i.e. "behind" Sarah's name. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages only. => The whole very attractive and well preserved. Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees, pour la Société Biblique Americaine, D. Fanshaw, Imprimeur hardcover books
1835243460Hartford: Andrus and Judd 1835. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with nearly 500 wood cuts. 16mo 132 pages overall browning handsomely rebound in full brown calf with lined borders on covers and spine. Hartford: Andrus and Judd 1835. Very good .<br/><br/> Andrus and Judd unknown books
1954268212London: The Dropmore Press 1954. First trade edition preceded by 100 numbered copies. 84 collotype plates 8 colored. vii 3 191 3 pp. Printed in 14 point Monotype Walbaum on Arnold & Foster mould-made vellum by Oxford University Press. With prospectus. 1 vols. Small Folio. Half red niger morocco and blindstamped parchement covers. Fine. First trade edition preceded by 100 numbered copies. 84 collotype plates 8 colored. vii 3 191 3 pp. Printed in 14 point Monotype Walbaum on Arnold & Foster mould-made vellum by Oxford University Press. With prospectus. 1 vols. Small Folio. Complete facsimile of a c. 1325 "Bible En Image" with 235 picture stories prepared for a 14th century block-book. Inscribed and with an ALS from Hassall to A.H. Carder one of the printers of the book. The Dropmore Press unknown books
181608246Brattleboro VT: J. Holbrook's 1816. Hard Cover. Very Good. Large Quarto. With Marginal Notes and References. To Which are Added an Index: an Alphabetical Table of all the Names in the Old and New Testaments with their Significations: and what has Never Before been Added an Account of the Lives and Martyrdom of the Apostles and Evangelists.Third Edition. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Engraved title page dated 1816 printed title page dated 1817. A very good copy bound in three quarter leather and cloth covered boards raised bands spine gilt lettering and decoration spine all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Many maps and engraved illustrations. Dark spot front cover where label was been removed. Mild cover edge wear Light scattered foxing. Small hole affecting rfep and last few pages. 931 pp. Concordance. <br/><br/> J. Holbrook's hardcover books
1814243382Philadelphia: Mathew Carey 1814. Later Carey edition. 1080 pp. on gray paper. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full polished calf red morocco spine label. Lightly rubbed with chip from tail of spine. Title page foxed with some sporadic foxing thereafter. Chips and closed tears to "Family Record" leaves and New Testament title page. Very good. Later Carey edition. 1080 pp. on gray paper. 1 vols. 4to. Carey published the first Catholic Bible in America in 1790; this printing is an edition of the King James Bible. Clarkin 764; Shaw-Shoemaker 30869; Hills 257 Mathew Carey unknown books
1752D3102Paris: Gabriel-Charles Berton 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. 268 half-page engraved illustrations including title vignette. 20 552 pages including half-title. 4to contemporary mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece spine ends rubbed cover corners worn; overall a very nice fresh copy. A charming old 19th century book marker with a little pillow at the head rests inside pillow dangling outside at the top. <br/><br/> Gabriel-Charles Berton hardcover books
1814313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown books
1820FF200aGeneve: 1820. 1820. Two volumes in one. 5.25 inches. Small 12mo. 2 985 1; 2 319 1 pp. Original full burgundy straight-grained morocco a.e.g. Early ink inscription Isabella Blake from his affectionate Uncle Edward Steele June 19th 1832; G.B. Oughterson George 1838-1912 August 24th 1852. Fine. With a fore-edge painting of "Muenster Cathedral" Germany PAINTED BY DON NOBLE not signed circa 1985-1995. In checking the facade it appears in fact that this is the Aachen Cathedral. It is the burial place of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne who also ordered the cathedral to be built. It is also known as Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle. The painting here depicts the cathedral prior to the construction of the tower that was finished by 1884. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary pp. 214-6 Noble fl. 1965-2000. kMW 1820. unknown books
181235967Philadelphia: Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia by T. Rutt Shacklewell London and pr. by William Fry 1812. 12mo 17.9 cm 7". 456 45978 481633 1 pp. 1 f. 191 1 pp. <br><br>The first Stereotyped Bible Printed in America. The Bible Society of Philadelphia founded in 1808 with Bp. William White as its first president was the first Bible society organized in the United States. It published this the first stereotype Bible printed in the U.S. from plates imported from London; the B.F.B.S. contributed £500 towards the purchase of the plates and they were admitted to the U.S. free of import duties. The initial run produced 1050 copies of the complete Bible and 750 copies of the New Testament in double columns in very small type.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of Edward H. Mills dated 27 May 1843 on front pastedown. From the collection of Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24835; Hills 213; Herbert 1560; O'Callaghan 110; Wright Early Bibles of America 19293; Rumball-Petre 189. Contemporary sheep rubbed with joints opening and leather lost at spine head; wormwork to spine and some margins of text. Volume "soft" with sewing pulling away from spine and a few gatherings separated; text foxed and browned as often; several leaves perhaps two dozen damaged with some loss of text perhaps a dozen more with small tears. Lacking two leaves of the Old Testament all others present. A distressed copy of this important edition and priced accordingly. Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia, by T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London, [and pr. by William Fry] hardcover books
200140835Huntington Beach CA: Wycliffe Bible Translators 2001. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". vi 624 pp. 18 unnumbered pages of plates; illus. some color color maps. <br><br>First translation of the New Testament in Abidji a member of the Niger-Kordofanian family. Translated by R.L. Vick et al. Maps on endpapers. In dark green printed vinyl wrappers. Wycliffe Bible Translators unknown books
183725250New York: T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church pr. by J. Collord 1837. 8vo 22.5 cm 8.9". 734 pp. 219/20 lacking. <br><br>Commentary by John Wesley the founding father of Methodism on the New Testament including the Book of Revelation. The text is "that of the Common English Translation with some of Bengel's readings incorporated" according to O'Callaghan. Having originally appeared in 1754 the Notes were here published by Mason and Lane who in collaboration with printer James Collord produced numerous Methodist treatises and Bible editions.<br>Â Â Â Â Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 1837 43174; O'Callaghan 253. This ed. not in Hills; not in Wright. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Title-page and first and last sections with lower portions of leaves waterstained though not darkly; foxing throughout. Significant portions of the two leaves bearing pp. 21518 torn diagonally away with loss of most notes and some text of John; leaf bearing pp. 219/20 lacking. T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church (pr. by J. Collord) hardcover books
198140834Lagos: Bible Society of Nigeria 1981. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". 541 pp. illus. maps. <br><br>First New Testament in the Ebira language a member of the Niger-Kordofanian family.<br>Â Â Â Â Includes glossary. Translated by David Moomo and Hans-Juergen Schultz. In black printed vinyl wrappers. Bible Society of Nigeria unknown books
1808FF181London:: Printed for W. Bent 1808. 1808. Small 8vo. iv viii 142; 144 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco all edges gilt for Sotheran London. Near fine. Provenance: Ownership signatures of Caroline Heathcote; L. Jackman. With a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of Westminster Abbey signed with his initials in the lower right corner of the painting. Probably painted ca. 1985/86. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 151-3. Printed for W. Bent, [1808]. unknown books
1821FF2451Oxford:: Samuel Collingwood 1821. 1821. Thick 8vo. 1039 1 pp. All but a few leaves printed in two columns. Original full gilt-stamped red straight grain morocco lavender endleaves; rebacked preserving original spine. Early ownership inscription. With a fore-edge painting of Canterbury painted by 'Stevens' ca. 1945-1960. kMW Samuel Collingwood, 1821. unknown books
1485EPL041485. Paperback. Good. From a German Bible circa 1485. Exquisite examples of hand-colored prints of the period these illustrations would have ornamented the Bible text nicely. Small wormhole on Christ Childs halo otherwise a good pair. Mounted. Size: 130 x 60mm each. <br/><br/> paperback books
1843WRCAM45615Bombay 1843. 108pp. Later black morocco gilt. Corners heavily rubbed; library markings. Front flyleaf detached. Text clean. Good plus. An early Indian imprint printed for the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society at the American Mission Press with text in both English and Marathi. Not in Diehl. Scarce - a search of OCLC turns up only three copies at Yale Oxford and the New York Public Library though this copy is marked as a Library of Congress duplicate. unknown books
18391463Novo York 1839. Good plus. Original mottled calf spine gilt ruled leather label. Boards scuffed calf somewhat worn at edges and along spine. Pastedowns detaching from boards. A scarce Portuguese New York imprint comprising the Catholic New Testament. The translator Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo was a Portuguese monk who completed his vernacular Bible over the course of eighteen years during the late-18th century. His New Testament was originally published in parts from 1778 to 1781. The publication of this edition in New York by the American Bible Society perhaps correlates to the growth of Portuguese immigration to the Northeast associated with the rise of the American whaling industry during this period. books
13930Printed by Robert Barker in London: 1611. The Holy Bible Conteyning the Old Testa- ment and the New:/ Newly Translated out of/the Originall Tongues: and with/the former Translations diligently/compared and reuise d by his/Maiesties speciall Com-/mandement./Appointed to be read in Churches./Imprinted/at London by Robert/Barker Printer to the/King's most Excellent/Maiestie./Anno Dom. 1 sheet. Folio size. Covering the verses Psalm 71:3-74:1. First Edition of the King James Bible. Very good condition overall. Pages crisp and clean with minimal foxing. Professional repair to bottom left corner. Large capital letter woodcuts. unknown books
1862321072New York: American Bible Society 1862. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blindstamped leather. Rubbed lower board and last leaf detached. Good. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An early example of Armenian printing in America. The Armenian Bible was first printed in New York in 1859. "The translation of the OT begun . by H.G.O. Dwight and others . was completed by Elias Riggs. The NT is the version by J. Zohrab revised by J.B. Adger in 1841-2" Darlow & Moule 1851. OCLC: 39994158 Yale American Bible Society unknown books
04102New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. The Greatest Poem of Ancient and Modern Times Alfred Lord Tennyson<br/>Eight Magnificent Colored Illustrations by Arthur Szyk<br/><br/>SZYK Arthur illustrator. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Job from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James 1 with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. <br/><br/>Limited to 1950 copies signed by Arthur Szyk this being number 478. <br/><br/>Folio 12 x 8 1/2 inches; 304 x 216 mm. 148 2 blank 1 limitation 5 blank pp. Eight mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk.<br/><br/>Publishers three-quarter creme leather over white paper boards front cover pictorially stamped in gilt spine title blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing to spine extremities otherwise an excellent copy housed in the original slightly worn red felt-lined metallic gold slipcase. Complete with the LEC Monthly Letter loosely inserted.<br/><br/>The Book of Job is a book in the Ketuvim "Writings" section of the Hebrew Bible Tanakh and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Addressing the problem of theodicy - why a good God permits evil or more simply "Why do the righteous suffer" - it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely and often extravagantly praised for its literary qualities with Alfred Lord Tennyson calling it "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times".<br/><br/>LEC Bibliography No. 173. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1946 unknown books
