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08298London c. 1880: Cassell Petter and Galpin. Full Leather. Very Good. Large Quarto. A very good copy bound in full black leather with raised bands spine gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt decoration covers gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt three ribbon bookmarks. Illustrated with more than nine hundred highly finished engravings. Family Register Births Marriages and Deaths are blank. Mild fading to gilt covers Gift inscription ffep. A nice family bible. <br/><br/> Cassell, Petter and Galpin hardcover books
17113862Amsterdam: Ex Officina Westeniana 1711. Sm. 8vo. 8856038pp. Double column text. Greek and Latin title page printed in red & black. Illus. with an added engraved title mounted 2 engraved folding ground plans and an engraved folding map. The title map & ground plans have been backed with a few added color printed illustrations on the blank versos. 19th century blind tooled calf. The endpapers are browned. Some marginal text notations. Ex Officina Westeniana unknown books
185940310New York: American Bible Society 1859. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary American green gilt extra morocco a.e.g. Fine smalkl snag at head of spine. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. American Bible Society unknown books
1611108233Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11â€. London: Robert Barker 1611. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11†printed on both recto and verso in two columns with woodcut initials. Foxing to outer margins top-edge has some tears and curling; good. § From either the first or second state of the first edition. Ecclesiasticus: 27:1-30 28: 1-26 29:1-6. Robert Barker unknown books
181419820Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1814. 2 vols. in 1. 4to 24.1 cm 9.5". 441 160 ff. <br><br>Early American printing of this popular commentary originally published in several years worth of weekly portions. The text is that of the King James Bible and is supplemented by extensive notes from Thomas Scott one of the founding members of the Church Missionary Society. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 259; Shaw & Shoemaker 30867. Contemporary treed sheep spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding rubbed front joint cracked back joint starting from top spine extremities chipped. Front pastedown with private collectors small bookplate title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Pages age-toned. William W. Woodward hardcover books
180323697Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 pp. 1 subscriber's list f. <br><br>Translated by Thomas Williams. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Publisher's sheep scuffed and rubbed from age; respined with brown cloth tape and original label laid back on. Two leaves one the half-title separated from spine but present; ex-library with attractive old bookplate old stamp to title-page and half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Worth having. William W. Woodward hardcover books
18234731Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless 1823. 4to 29.5 cm 11.5". 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-4 6 5-570 frontis. 2 573-748 749-770 18 54 2 blank pp.; 10 plts. including 2 frontispieces and 8 full-page engravings. <br><br>Large thick quarto Bible. "Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page. No date stated. O'Callaghan says that "The first edition of this Bible was printed in 1823. The stereotype plates of the Old Testament were cast by Elihu White of New York; those of the New by B. & J. Collins. Kimber and Sharpless continued the publication of large and numerous editions until 1844 when they sold the plates to Jasper Harding."<br>Â Â Â Â Contents include general title-page a note to the reader order of books contents of the Old and New Testaments Old Testament New Testament title-page New Testament Index and Tables Psalms of David and "A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments." by John Brown. With two frontispieces and 8 additional full-page historical engravings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 20th century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Ownership inscription dated 1889 on blank side of first frontispiece. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 460; O'Callaghan 161-162; Shaw & Shoemaker 11824. Contemporary sheep with four raised bands accented in gilt and forming compartments. The second compartment bears a red morocco label and "Holy Bible" stamped on it in gilt. Binding a bit rubbed front joint opening a bit about 1" at top. Foxed as expectable. Long tear to pp. 401-402 without loss of text but definitely affecting it. Evidence of two leaves of family records between the Old and New Testaments having been torn out. Most of the pages of John Brown's Concordance are waterstained in margins. Red silk bookmark laid in. Complete. Kimber and Sharpless hardcover books
18417995Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1841. 4to 28.7 cm 11.3". Frontis. 576 4 99 3 579768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â This edition has the Apocrypha added and 11 woodcut plates in total; the New Testament has a separate title-page. The family record leaves here are mostly unused but bear a few names with dates from 1845 through 1899.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of 20th-century collector Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 1100. Binding see: Wolf From Gothic Windows to Peacocks 126. Contemporary goat embossed in arabesque patterns over a diapered background with central diamond-shaped medallion spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and compartments gilt extra; worn and abraded with portion of front cover faded leather rubbed over joints and extremities spine leather cracking. Hinges tender. Front free endpaper lacking frontispiece recto used for pencilled list of names one plate with inked notation on verso and another with pencilled ones. One other plate with pencilled notes in margins and pencil and ink markings throughout text. Some leaves browned. H. & E. Phinney hardcover books
1822217373Hartford: Oliver D. Crooke and Sons 1822. 369 pp in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree sheep black morocco label. some minor wear at edges else a lovely copy with an early ownership inscription "Moses P. Payson's Haverhill Academy 1825" on the first blank. 369 pp in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Chronologically this is the tenth Greek New Testament issued in America but it is the first to use the standard 1550 Stephanus text and it became widely used in America. "Wilson's New testament had an enormous circulation and is still in 1883 in use by very many Probably no edition was more commonly used by the mass of clergymen and students from 1823 to 1840." - Hall CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN AMERICA. No less than 15 different editions were issued from 1822 to 1880. Oliver D. Crooke and Sons unknown books
184420104Calcutta: Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society at the Baptist Mission Press 1844. 12mo. 53 pp. <br><br>Third edition; translated from the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries. Title-page in Bengali and English but text solely in Bengali. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covers light boards. Front cover with printed paper title-label; one area of abrasion to front cover and another to back. Institutional bookplates on pastedowns. Clean copy. Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press hardcover books
181319401New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood 1813. Second Wood edition. A trifle foxed; some light rubbing; a handsome copy in very good condition. 32mo 2.06 x 1.31 inches original green morocco spine stamped in gilt boards ruled in gilt 254 pages. Frontis illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A26: "Illustrations as in A17 Wood 1811 but type reset. Printed and Sold by S. Wood, unknown books
04269Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. A Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century Book of Common Prayer<br/><br/>BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making ordaining and consecrating of bishops priests and deacons. Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839.<br/><br/>Sixteenmo 3 1/2 x 2 inches; 89 x 51 mm. Unpaginated. <br/><br/>Contemporary full purple morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind spine with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins yellow coated end-papers all edges gilt. Neat early ink inscription on front blank. A fine example. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by S. Collingwood and Co..., 1839 unknown books
19461263Paris: Editions du Sceau 1946. Aboulker Célestine. Quarto original wrappers slight wear to ends of spine margins slightly browned; a very good copy. One of an edition of 130 copies illustrated with 15 color lithographs by Celestine Aboulker. A member of a prominent Jewish family in Algiers Aboulker's paintings often biblicly inspired are in the collections of Le Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme in Paris and the museums of Ein Harod and Dimona in Israel. <br/><br/> Editions du Sceau unknown books
183715822Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1837. 4to 28 cm 11". Frontis. 768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â The New Testament here has a separate title-page and the volume is llustrated with 10 wood engraved plates including two frontispieces. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 972. Contemporary sheep gilt-lettered on the spine. Binding rubbed with abrasions along edges and joints spine pulled at head. Ex-library with white-lettered shelf number on spine. Light foxing. One plate with tear from bottom edge not intruding upon illustration. Small hole to one leaf with loss of several letters of marginal notes. H. & E. Phinney unknown books
19329026550Leipzig: Limited Editions Club 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Decorations by E.R. Weiss. Introduction by Ernest Sutherland Bates. One of 1500 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte and signed by the illustrator. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slipcase with printed paper label shows wear at one edge. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1826246648Albany New York: S. Shaw 1826. 256 pp. 45 x 34 mm. Bound in contemporary calf very Good. 256 pp. 45 x 34 mm. S. Shaw unknown books
1828255836London: William Pickering 1828. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece by Worthington after da Vinci woodcut device on title page. 612 pp. 1 vols. 3-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches. Contemporary full green morocco a.e.g. Faintest traces of rubbing. Fine. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece by Worthington after da Vinci woodcut device on title page. 612 pp. 1 vols. 3-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches. Printed in beautiful Greek diamond type by C. Corrall. Keynes p. 81 William Pickering unknown books
1952IY915-257Mainz Germany:: Gutenberg Museum 1952. Like New. Miniature Book. 5 x 5 mm. 16 pp. The Lordâs Prayer in 7 languages; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped full black morocco; binding square and tight. Housed in a plexiglass case with a magnifier. Comes with an informational page and in a larger plastic viewing case. Mel Kavin's copy. Fine. This volume is the second in the series of "smallest books in the world" that the Germans are so fond of printing. This book contains the Lord's Prayer in seven languages: English French German English American version Spanish Dutch and Swedish. The size of a printed page is 3.5 x 3.5 mm. Every page of the book has been engraved on metal in a type-foundry and was not reduced by photographic means. Printing and folding are a technical challenge. The booklet is hand-bound in leather and decorated with gold stamping. Cribbed from the printed sheet included with the volume. Gutenberg Museum, hardcover books
1866027465New York: American Bible Society 1866. Octavo. A very scarce New Testament and Psalms issued just after the Civil War. This edition not found in Herbert or OCLC but it was the 16th edition and as noted on the bottom of the title page the American Bible Society issued it this way Test. & Psalms Pica 8vo. The New Testament is in fairly large print 447 pages as is the Psalms 112 pages. The large print makes it easily readable compared to the earlier editions. Bound in publisher's full green morocco decorated and ruled in gilt raised bands with compartments lettered ad decorated in gilt decorative gilt turn ins all edges gilt and original red ribbon marker. Some soiling or staining to binding. A very good copy. American Bible Society unknown books
180953964Edinburgh: Peter Hill 1809. 52 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/2" x 4" x 1/2". Full contemporary brown sheepskin. Signature of James Ogilvy. Some normal rubbing else fine. 52 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/2" x 4" x 1/2". Peter Hill unknown books
1707265534Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1707. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers rubbed joints tender but cords holding; onternally fine. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. The first eight books only of the famous edition of the Septuagint here in the same type as the folio version but issued in octavo format "to prevent the book from being piratically printed in Germany." Darlow & Moule. The volume contains the first eight books ending with the Book of Ruth. Darlow & Moule 4734 E Theatro Sheldoniano unknown books
184107886Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait 1841. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 24 Mo. A near fine copy bound in contemporary full black leather with gilt lettering and decoration spine gilt illustration covers gilt inner dentelles marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page. A beautiful little bible. viii 587 pp. 190 pp. <br/><br/> Thomas Cowperthwait hardcover books
1613108231Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11â€. London: Robert Barker 1613. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11†printed on both recto and verso in two columns with woodcut initials. Mounted; very good. § From the second edition with 72 lines as opposed to 52 for the first edition. “John: 11:1 Christ raiseth Lazarus.†One of the most well known stories of the Bible also containing the shortest sentence in the Bible: “37. Christ wept.†Robert Barker unknown books
186015833New York & Cincinnati: Benziger Brothers 1860-1869. Folio. 9 ff. 1244 2 371 pp.; illus. <br><br>German Catholic Bible. Title-page printed in red and black four leaves in back with ornate borders and blank areas for family information. "Von Joseph Franz von Allioli. Mit Approbation des apostolischen Stuhles. Mit Holzschnitten nach Zeichnungen der ersten Künstler Deutschlands." Text printed in double columns. Profusely illustrated. 19th-century sheep spine gilt-lettered; front cover detached back joint starting binding rubbed as usual loss of leather on corners and some loss on edges. Foxing throughout. Tear and slight tattering to pp. 17/18 tear extending into text and costing several letters marginal tear to pp. 23/24 and 25/26 pp. 371 tattered at margins without affecting text. Benziger Brothers hardcover books
18569697New York: American Bible Society 1856. 8vo. 690 lacking 691-98 pp. <br><br>Third printing of the American Bible Society's first edition of the Bible in Welsh a double-column printing with the Welsh on the left and English on the right. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 9641. Contemporary sheep heavily rubbed. Front pastedown with ownership label and with small ticket from prominent collector Michael Zinman; pastedowns also with stray pencil marks. Lacking the front free endpaper and the last four leaves. Occasional margin chips resulting in losses of a few words; dried plant matter laid in. American Bible Society unknown books
