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161117388London: Robert Barker 1611. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. The First and Second Books of Kings complete in 36 leaves. The first page is the final page of the previous book 2 Samuel; on the reverse begins 'The First Booke of the Kings commonly called The third Booke of the Kings'. 36pp. followed by 'The Second Booke of the Kings commonly called The fourth Booke of the Kings' 35pp. The final page ends II Kings and begins I Chronicles. Printed in black letter woodcut initials. Recent binding of quarter calf gilt titles Cockerell marbled paper boards. Some remargining no loss and old stains else a very good copy in a fine binding The binder's notes itemize the steps in rebinding including leaf disinfectant for the stains. Darlow & Moule 240. Robert Barker hardcover books
150741458Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 177576. 4to in 8s 28.8 cm 11.33". Frontis. 639 ff. <br><br>with accompanying volume The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1781. 8vo 20.7 cm 8.15". 376 ff. bound with Vickers William. A companion to the altar: Shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation in order to our worthy receiving the holy communion. London: Pr. for Thomas Beecroft 1783. Frontis. 2 v55 1 adv. pp. lacking half-title or initial blank and with Bible. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of psalms collected into English metre. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1785. 8vo. 64 ff.<br>Â Â Â Â This striking 18th-century set owned by a wealthy Englishwoman who spent much of her life in Switzerland for more on which see below pairs a handsome Cambridge Bible and BCP in => masterfully designed and executed deluxe matched bindings. The Bible opens with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; the Apocrypha are present in this copy and the New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1776. The BCP is bound with Companion to the Altar "Note This Book is bound up with the Common-Prayers of several sorts printed by the University of Cambridge" as per the title-page; Sternhold & Hopkins bring up the rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Bindings: Contemporary mottled green morocco covers framed in Greek key roll and dentelles composed of urn and flower motifs surrounding central JHS medallions with red morocco inlays and gilt-tooled flames; spines with gilt-tooled compartment decorations Bible spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label. While the covers of the two volumes are strongly similar overall and "read" as => identical on first glance the details of the design vary slightly between the Bible and the BCP as the size disparity and possibly the time gap between the publication dates necessitated the use of different tools. The spine designs differ more notably but still most companionably with the Bible's spine decorations being built up with foliate and floral motifs and the BCP's with suns and stars. => To engage in minute comparison of these bindings' detail is an entrancing exercise.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front free endpaper of Bible used for family record: Francis James Barwell de Sandol Roy born in 1793 and died in 1813 "Quel angoisse!"; Henri Guillaume de Sandol Roy born in 1797; and a list of grandchildren: François Sophie Anna and Alfred. The title-page inscription confirms that this set was owned by Sophie Bridget Barwell de Sandol Roy 17691850 daughter of William Barwell a director of the East India Company; her brother Richard became a famously wealthy and scandalous nabob. Dubbed "la belle Anglaise" following her arrival in Neuchâtel Sophie made a great splash in Swiss society and received a proposal from Colonel François Isaac de Sandol Roy sometimes given as Sandol-Roy a proposal which she at first rejected until he subsequently saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary Paris! For more on their story please see Musée Neuchatelois 1923 ed. pp. 24 which includes a reproduction of a portrait of Sophie de Sandol-Roy done by Sir Joshua Reynolds. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bible: Darlow & Moule 1247; ESTC T88808. BCP: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1781:1; ESTC T212010. Companion: ESTC T76554. Psalms: ESTC T221010. Bindings as above moderate rubbing to extremities and sides with limited scuffing only; all edges gilt marbled endpapers and original matching dark blue bookmarks present still attached. Bible with small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of first few leaves including frontispiece; varying faint to moderate foxing; one leaf with small repair to upper outer margin. BCP with a few instances of light foxing pages mostly clean; laid in is a stitched pamphlet which seems to be a record of additional family information involving Albert Victor and Mary although written in a challenging hand. => A gorgeous lavish production altogether with a remarkable arresting provenance. Pr. by John Archdeacon hardcover books
1843WRCAM33931AOahu & Honolulu: Na Na Misionari I Pai 1843. 1451pp. Large thick octavo. Contemporary ruled Hawaiian sheep. Binding rubbed minor wear at extremities of joints. Small insect track in extreme lower edge of first eight leaves. Ink stamp of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library on front pastedown verso of titlepage and final text page. Scattered foxing and age toning. Very good in original condition. In a half morocco box. The first joint publication of the Old and New Testaments as an entity in the Hawaiian language printed for the American Bible Society at the Mission Presses in Oahu Old Testament and Honolulu New Testament. A number of printings of various books or groups of books of the Bible were printed as early as 1827 and the first Hawaiian printing of the New Testament appeared in 1835 with the Old Testament following in 1838. These printings are frequently found bound together although issued separately. This is the first publication of the complete approved text as an entity paginated continuously and issued as one book. The New Testament has its own titlepage p.1129 and imprint. The verso of the first titlepage bears the words "Ka lua o ke pai ana" the second printing referring to the only other printing of the entire Old Testament in 1838 at the same press. A second printing of the entire Bible was made later in 1843; but curiously enough Judd et al record no other complete printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language through 1899. <br> <br> A handsome copy of an important Hawaiian Bible in a Hawaiian binding. JUDD 265. FORBES 1416. HUNNEWELL pp.24-25. Na Na Misionari I Pai unknown books
193028076Lausanne: Gonin & Cie 1930. First edition. Schmied François-Louis. 9-3/4 in. x 7-1/2 in.; 248 mm x 192 mm. 60 pp. Designed and illustrated by Schmied engraved and printed by Philippe Gonin. Seven full-page woodcut illustrations; twelve smaller illustrations initials and bandeaux. Original wrappers in chemise and slipcase slight tanning to the front wrapper otherwise fine. Copy 4 of 175 copies signed by Gonin printed on Arches paper. This is from the tirage de tête of 25 copies which have an additional double suite of the llustrations black and colored. Nasti B18; Ritchie 34. <br/><br/> Gonin & Cie unknown books
15192682Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal for Simon Vincent 1519. 8vo 180 x 126 mm. 30 500 54 pp. with pagination errors. Title and first table printed in red and black text in two columns with printed marginalia indices and summary in 3 columns. Colophon on fol. RR4v. Publisher's woodcut device Baudrier no. 2 on title and final verso full-page woodcut showing the six days of Creation within ornamental border historiated woodcut initials throughout; red paragraph marks to opening page and red highlighting to the facing woodcut. Mainly faint marginal dampstain in upper margins light discoloration to outer margins. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled calf over wooden boards sides with leafy roll-tool border enclosing central panel with intersecting triple fillets forming a saltire design the compartments filled with a repeated foliate tool arranged symmetrically one of two fore-edge clasps two catches; many deckle edges preserved worn a few small chips to leather pastedown endpapers renewed. Provenance: early ownership inscriptions on title: Mrr Cornelius Adamus ter Borch; and Siba Lÿken; contemporary marginal notes and some text markings crosses in margins and underlinings in first few books Genesis-Deuteronomy; abundant 17th and/or 18th-century philological annotations in Genesis and Exodus and in the indices including full page of notes on blank page 2E5v.A complete portable Bible printed in very small types containing an ample scholarly apparatus and finding aids for the use of theology students and scholars; this copy with contemporary annotations and in a contemporary blind-tooled calf binding probably Flemish. This compact glossed Bible densely and economically printed with no break between the Old and New Testaments is enlivened by hundreds of historiated woodcut initials from woodcut alphabets designed by Guillaume Leroy who also designed the six-part full-page woodcut of the Creation. Mareschal's useful "pocket" Bibles were bestsellers this being the fourth of six octavo editions from his press. They were among the first Bible editions to include a rhyming mnemonic Biblical summary by the minorite friar Franciscus Gothi in which each four-line verse summarizes a Biblical chapter. Occupying here the final two quires and called for in the colophon it is not recorded by Baudrier or Gültlingen. Possibly buyers had the choice of including it or not in their copies. Otherwise the text of Mareschal's octavo Bibles follows that of the Bible printed in Basel in 1509 by Johann Petri and Froben using the text edited by the Dominican Alberto Castellano and supplying for the first time marginal notes citing canon law. The apparatus includes four tables and a glossary of Hebrew names. As in the Petri editions a six-line commendatory poem by Matthias Sambucellus is printed on the title here with the first word of the last line incorrectly given as "Omne" instead of "Omine."The publisher Simon Vincent belonged to Lyon's powerful booksellers' guild the Compagnie des Libraires whose members helped Mareschal during his early years impressed by his skill conscientiousness and sobriety "a rare trait among printers of this period" notes Baudrier qualities which contrasted markedly with those of the printer Michel Topie whose press Mareschal had acquired in 1512 Baudrier 11:383.USTC 145003; Adams B-997; Pettegree & Walsby French Vernacular Books III: 57271. Darlow & Moule II: 6093 note; Baudrier Bibliographie lyonnaise 11: 401 and pp. 380 397 & 448; Gültlingen Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon 2:209 no. 56. Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent] unknown books
179168436Very Rare Early American Edition of a ChildrenÃs Pocket Bible BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Abridged: Or the History of the Old and New Testament. Illustrated with Notes and Adorned with Cuts. For the Use of Children. Two lines from Luke. Boston: Samuel Hall 1791. Early American edition and first Samuel Hall edition second Boston edition. There were only a total of five Children's bibles published in America before 1791. The First American edition was printed in Boston in 1782 by Robert Hodge for N. Coverly followed by a Worcester Massachusetts 1786 edition by Isaiah Thomas 1786 and 1788 Philadelphia editions and a 1790 New York edition. Our present copy was published the year after the New York edition. Thirtytwomo 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 67 mm. 4 vii-ix 8 18-173 1 pp. With frontispiece of Adam and Eve and fifty-nine crude but charming woodcuts illustrations depicting stories from the text meant to appeal to young children. The stories that have been abridged for use in this Bible generally consist of the more well- known stories which would be of interest to children such as Creation Adam & Eve and Jonah and the Whale from the Old Testament as well as the birth baptism and crucifixion of Jesus from the New Testament. Listed in Evans but not in Sabin. We could find no copies of this edition at auction and only one copy found at the Massachusetts Historical Society. All early American editions are rare and only two complete copies of the New York 1790 edition since 1976. There was the 1786 Worcester edition at auction in 2008 but it was incomplete. Contemporary marbled paper over boards repacked with matching paper. Inner hinges strengthened. Bound without endpapers. Some soiling and toning throughout. One leaf page 145 with some fraying to the edges not affecting text. Overall very good particularly for a childrenÃs book. The rarity of this book can somewhat be contributed to its very small size and that it was intended for the use of children. Something as delicate and tiny as this Bible in the hands of a child had little hope for a bright future. ìBy 1789 Bible story collections specifically for children had existed in the mother country for nearly a century an active market in the American colonies had not opened up. Neither American Protestants nor American Catholics of whom were growing in numbers seemed ready to give Bible stories to their children. In the 1780Ãs the American situation changed radically. Boston printers pirated NewberyÃs Holy Bible Abridged; in 1786 the astute Worcester printer Isaiah Thomas followed suit; and by 1815 The Holy Bible Abridged had been printed in urban and provincial print centers all over the America northeast.î The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer Shipton & Mooney 46126 Bristol B7648 Welch D.A. Amer. childrenÃs books 6127 ESTC W1077 Brinley 5815. HBS 68436. $6500 Samuel Hall hardcover books
172741004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. <br><br>Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
1932224302Oxford: Clarendon Press 1932. First. hardcover. fine. Printed in red and black. Small folio full red morocco elaborately stamped in gilt & blind with numerous borders enclosing four rectangles also with borders; raised bands with 6 decorated panels on the spine by the French Binders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1932.<br/><br/> Printed with the Greek type of Robert Proctor the third book for which the type has been used the others being The Oresteia 1904 and The Odyssey 1909. Two leather bookplates and the dentelles have offset on the flyleaves otherwise fine in a black leather-backed cloth slipcase.<br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
19856343London: Facsimile Editions 1985. Edition limited to 500 copies. Very Good/Fine facsimile of "Ms Kennicotti" held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University a finely decorated manuscript of the Hebrew Bible that resembles in some ways the Book of Kells in the use of animal figures and and intricate marginal decorations although the style comes from the Ibero-Islamic tradition rather than the Celtic one. The manuscript was copied out twenty years prior to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 by Moshe Ibn Zabara and Yosef Ibn Chaim containing the entire Tanak together with the Radak commentary and Sefer HaMichlol. It is known as the "Kennicott Bible" after Benjamin Kennicot 1718-1783 the English clergyman and Hebraist who acquired the manuscript for Oxford University. An exceptionally beautiful facsimile five and a half years in the making it is printed on deluxe paper stock intended to reproduce the appearance of the original vellum. The gold highlights in the facsimile illustrations were applied by hand. The commentary by Bezalel Narkiss and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin provides a scholarly yet approachable historical context and artistic appreciation. A remarkable production!. 34 cm; 2 volumes 444 leaves facsimile; 97 pages commentary. Hebrew and English. Each volume in sturdy blindstamped leather bindings housed in custom velvet-lined blue cloth folding case. Slight surface mark on lower board of facsimile; surface scratch on lower board of commentary folding case a little dusty closure strap somewhat distressed else fine. Extra shipping charges will apply. [Facsimile Editions] hardcover books
1607D15150London: Robert Barker 1607. Full Calf. Very Good. 2 parts in one volume folio 13 x 8 1/2 in.; 330 x 216 mm. Double column text in roman type 63 lines to the full column engraved general title tinted by hand in rose pink and light blue wash woodcut headpiece and small ornament on New Testament title-page with continuous register but separate foliation full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in Eden facing Genesis 31 woodcut text illustrations diagrams and maps woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces; foliation errors as typical; scattered staining throughout tape repaired tear on G2 cutting into side-notes and another on Ffff2 repaired with older cellotape. Contemporary calf over beveled wooden boards old sueded calf spine nailed to front and rear covers this done a very long time ago; catches perished but still a most impressive looking object and a quite decent copy overall of the Geneva Bible in Folio format in a contemporary binding. The Geneva version of the Old Testament translated by William Whittingham Anthony Gilby Thomas Sampson and perhaps others with Laurence Tomson's revision of the Geneva version of the New Testament and his translation of Franciscus Junius' translation of Revelation. The correct collation reads as in ESTC not Herbert quires AaaZzz should read: AaaLll6 MmmOoo8 PppZzz6. STC 2199; ESTC S122320; Herbert 289. <br/><br/> Robert Barker unknown books
1589D15147London 1589. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine. Small folio 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 274 X 191 mm. Text in parallel columns 56 lines to the full column: Rheims New Testament printed in roman type on the left the Bishops' version in italics on the right both divided in verses all arguments marginal notes and other annotations of the Rheims NT printed at the end interspersed with the confutations title within woodcut border woodcut initials head and tailpieces. Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style mottled calf; expertly rebacked to period style red morocco lettering pieces mottling oxidized. An exceptionally nice copy of the first edition of Fulke's refutation of the arguments and accusations contained in the Catholic New Testament which was edited chiefly by Gregory Martin and printed at Rheims in 1582. The Rheims New Testament and the Bishops' version are here printed in full side by side with Fulke's commentary at the end of each chapter. This tandem printing "secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611" Herbert <br/><br/> unknown books
1763WRCAM35899CGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear to edges of first and last few leaves. Some light soiling to text. Contemporary manuscript notations on endpapers. Very good to near fine. In a cloth box gilt leather label. The second edition of the first European language Bible printed in America after the first of 1743. 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. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies 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. <br> <br> A nice copy of an important early American Bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1763WRCAM35899AGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Boards scuffed light foxing and dampstaining. Titlepage and first few leaves loose. Family names and dates inscribed on front and rear fly leaves. A few small tears at fore-edge; larger tear in p.274. Typical browning to pages and light edge wear. Overall quite nice in original condition. The second edition of the first European language bible printed in America after the first edition of 1743. 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. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies 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. <br> <br> A very nice copy of an important early American bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
D16616Geneva: Robert Estienne. Hardcover. Very Good. M.D.LVII 1556 -1557 Calend. Marti.. 3 volumes folio 385 x 242 mm. Pagination: I 480 leaves: 10 1188 1281 1; II 468 leaves: 1 287316 2 436; III 433 of 434 leaves lacking final blank: 1336 55 1 41pp. Collation: I: <br /><br />10 a-v8 x-z6 aa6 bb4 aaa-zzz8 aaaa-iiii8 kkkk6 llll8 mmmm-nnnn6; II: oooo-qqqq8 rrrr6 A10 B-Z8 AA-ZZ8 AAA-GGG8 HHH-III6; III: Aa-Zz8 AAa-TTt8 aa-gg8 Aa-Dd8 Ee9 of10. Volumes 1 and 3 with woodcut printers device of Robert Estienne on title page: an olive tree entwined with serpent and man with branches falling to ground around him and excerpt of Romans 11:20 NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME Be not high-minded but fear first word of title Biblia within woodcut cartouche frame with pastoral scene and grapevines. 20 woodcut text illustrations some full page based on the detailed descriptions of the Tabernacle Solomons Temple implements and architecture including a menorah fol. 75r vestments of the high priest f. 80r also Hirams laver f. 109v and Ezekiels Vision p. 275 several woodcut criblé initials throughout. Text in Latin and Hebrew. 17th-century Dutch vellum embossed with central lozenge design green silk ties; light marginal soiling or staining not severe some light intermittent browning underlining in first few leaves of first volume lacking final blank in third volume light edgewear on the extremities otherwise good and rather exemplary copies of this important publication. This copy formerly in the Shirburn Castle library of The Earl of Macclesfield their North Library bookplate marked '1.H.57'. In 2006 sold at Sothebys London 11 April 2006 lot 2312. <br/><br/>Fifth folio edition of the Latin Bible as Biblia Utriusque Testamenti published by Robert Estienne 15031559 in 1556 but with the original edition of the new Latin translation and commentary on the New Testament by Theodore Beza 15191605; notably this edition appeared contemporaneously with the printing of John Calvins Psalms Commentary. Theodore Beza a French Reformed Protestant theologian and Calvinist produced one Latin and four Greek-Latin editions of the New Testament in his lifetime working carefully through extant Greek manuscript sources. Estiennes great glossed Latin Bible of 1556/57 thus contained the translation of the Old Testament by Dominican philologist Sante Pagnini or Pagninus 14701536 first printed in 1528. Based on the Hebrew Pagninis text is in the center of each page and Bezas translation from the Greek is in smaller type to the side with commentary and alternate readings underneath. The Estienne-Beza Latin Bible with its copious notes and ties to Calvinist theology was of considerable importance in the early modern era. The 20 woodcut biblical illustrations were first used in an Estienne edition of the Bible printed in Paris in 1540. This copy beautifully bound in a Dutch vellum enjoyed placement in one of the finest libraries in Britain from around the mid-18th century. See also Renouard 'Estienne' p. 87; cf. Schreiber 'Estienne' 113. Robert Estienne hardcover books
163226102London: Robert Barker.by the assignes of John Bill 1632. Folio 34 cm 13.4". 15 507 1 ff. lacking 7 prelim. ff. <br><br>preceded by Speed John. The genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery familie and tribe. London: F. Kingston 1632. Folio. 2 34 pp. with Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold & Hopkins. 1632. The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter. London: Pr. by R. Badger for the Co. of Stationers 1632. Folio. 2 114 pp. lacking 8 index pp.<br>Â Â Â Â Attractive folio King James Bible set in roman in double columns ruled in red throughout with woodcut headpieces and decorative capitals. Darlow and Moule suggest that this edition was actually printed in early 1633 as a number of copies are recorded as having their title-page dates altered by hand to read 1633 as is the case here.<br>Â Â Â Â The Apocrypha are present with the blank space on the last page of Malachi filled with an early inked "account of the several books in the Apocrypha." => The Psalter following the Bible includes music. The O.T. title-page is engraved and signed very faintly in this example by William here "Guilielmus" Hole and is framed by an elaborate architectural border displaying the coats of arms of the 12 tribes of Israel and portraits of the 12 Apostles. => The recto of the list of books is a full-page engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by animals. The New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1632 with an ornate wood-engraved border featuring Justice and Truth along with the British lion and unicorn and various architectural motifs.<br>Â Â Â Â The volume opens with two fly-leaves bearing genealogical records in several different early inked hands with dates ranging from 1743 through 1847. A copy of Speed's Genealogies precedes the Old Testament while the "Description of Canaan" with map that should close the Genealogies has been bound in after the O.T. title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC S122379; Darlow & Moule 359; STC 2nd ed. 2298.5. Speed: ESTC S126191; STC 2nd ed. 23039a.4. Psalms: ESTC S122383; STC 2nd ed. 2633. Recent mottled calf covers fillet-framed and panelled in blind with decorative inner blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands. Front cover with two slender scrapes; title-page with date altered in ink to 1633 as above. Front fly-leaves with margins repaired; Description of Canaan with inner margin reinforced. Bible seven preliminary leaves lacking calendar dedication preface and list of books all present; Psalms four final index leaves only lacking; foliation slightly erratic. Varying degrees of age-toning occasional light waterstaining some margins with faint smudging; in fact and in sum a nice volume to hold and work with. Robert Barker...by the assignes of John Bill hardcover books
1802FF2474London:: John Reeves 1802. 1802. 5 volumes. Small 8vo. Original full crimson straight-grained morocco spines flat and tooled in gilt all edges gilt; some darkening to covers but a solid binding even now after all these years. Bookseller's ticket of Kerby & Bowdery 190 Oxford Street England. Early ownership signature of Charlotte Handbury. Very good. WITH FIVE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS painted by the "Dover Painter" of Marks & Company London ca 1920s one of the finest fore-edge artists of their day. On volume 1 Worcester Cathedral; 2 St. Paul's Cathedral; 3 York Minster; 4 Canterbury Cathedral St. Ethelbert's Tower & St. Augustine's Monastery; 5 Gloucester Cathedral. Each piece is labeled in ink in the artist's handwriting. PROVENANCE: pre-fore-edge James Kerby & Bowdery booksellers U.K. – Charlotte Hanbury signature; Marks & Co. London booksellers – where this became a fore-edge painting Edward C. Lowe Birmingham bookseller U.K. sold to: Mrs. Henry B. Brooke Gilpin Winchester 1853- Virginia purchased May 1941 – probably inherited by one of the three Gilpin children: Donald Kenneth Dorothy – an unknown source bought or traded to RL: – Russell Light bookseller Texas personal collection – JWRB. Import license shows seller's and buyer's names dated May 1941. The document was laid into volume II facing signature X3 with offsetting. NOTE ON HANBURY: Charlotte Hanbury could be one in the DNB with dates 1830-1900 born in Stoke Newington her autobiography published in 1901. Henry B. Brooke Gilpin 1853-1929 was vice president of the National Wholesale Drug Association and commodore of the Baltimore Yacht Club Maryland. He married Hattie Newcomer 1861-1942 daughter of Benjamin F. Newcomer president of the Baltimore Safe Deposit and Trust Company on 27 October 1886. SEE: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 98-103 "Dover Painter". John Reeves, 1802. unknown books
1613D15149London: Robert Barker 1613. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Good. 4to 8 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.; 216 x 156 mm. Black letter text in double columns 71 lines to the full column New Testament title in heart-shaped center within woodcut border woodcut initials head-and tailpieces. The First Quarto Edition of the King James Bible in black letter with "he" in Ruth 3:15. "This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which had proved so popular." Herbert As they are often found our copy is imperfect bound with additional bits and pieces also imperfect Our copy is lacking preliminary quire A including general title scattered browning and staining throughout two tears just touching text two holes costing a few words. Bound before the Bible: An imperfect and defective copy of the Book of Common Prayer lacks all before quire B; and Speed's Genealogies stained throughout without the map of Canaan. Bound after the Bible: the 1615 edition of Herrey's Concordances last two leaves defective; and Sternhold & Hopkins' metrical psalms lacks title-page quite stained and frayed toward the end. Bound in Eighteenth-century tree calf; worn joints cracked but generally sound. Label to spine states it incorrectly as Geneva Bible. Our copy has an interesting line of provenance as follows: William Albin several signatures dated 1727 1729 and 1732 Theophilus Jones gift inscription to Thomas G. Evans dated 1867 Birth records of the Welsh family Evans 18471874 in one hand on flyleaf Christmas Evans inscription dated 1935; Evans's probable namesake and ancestor was the famous Welsh Noncomformist minister Christmas Evans 17661838 $5500 <br/><br/> Robert Barker unknown books
1557254216Basilaea Basel: Nicolaum Bryling Nicolaus Brylinger 1557. Woodcut border and printer's device on title. INCOMPLETE. 8 479 of 500 8 leaves. Lacking ff. 46-56 & 61-70. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary blind panel-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards clasps removed binding worn exposing boards on rear cover title page detached contemporary marginalia by Johannes Weneken throughout. Woodcut border and printer's device on title. INCOMPLETE. 8 479 of 500 8 leaves. Lacking ff. 46-56 & 61-70. 1 vols. 8vo. Brylinger published the only 16th century edition of Luther's Bible in Switzerland published one of the earliest Greek and Latin diglot Bibles and published a series of 8vo editions of the Bible with diglot and Greek-only text which was popular with students. Darlow & Moule makes no mention of this or any other Latin-only edition by Brylinger.<br/>Front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper display extensive annotations in Greek and Latin presumably by Johannes Weneken. The marginal annotations provide a fascinating insight into how this book was used. Not in Darlow & Moule but cf. 4621; Adams 1056; OCLC: 46973017 6 copies only 3 of which in U.S. Nicolaum Bryling [Nicolaus Brylinger] unknown books
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 books
1653255179Londoni: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye sub signo Campanae in Cometerio D. Pauli 1653. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England. 8 1279 1; 186 2 pp. plus terminal blank. 1 vols. 4to signed in 8's 195 x 143mm. Old vellum titled and dated in manuscript on the spine. Terminal leaves slightly soiled two ownership inscriptions on front endsheets and small Lincoln's Inn release/sale stamp vellum a bit handsoiled occasional modest foxing and dusting along upper margins but a very good copy. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England. 8 1279 1; 186 2 pp. plus terminal blank. 1 vols. 4to signed in 8's 195 x 143mm. The Uncommon Quarto Printing. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England with the Scholia the scarce printing in quarto format. The text is derived from the Sixtine text and edited by John Biddle 1615-1662 the Unitarian controversialist who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious views. <br/>The SCHOLIA . has a separate title-leaf register and pagination. The same setting was imposed in both quarto and octavo formats the latter with rules separating the columns of text. In regard to institutional representation the edition in quarto is much more uncommon than that in octavo: ESTC locates 4 copies of the quarto printing in North America as opposed to 19 of the octavo printing. Occasionally Daniel's reprint of the New Testament is bound up with the octavo printings to form a complete Bible. Brunet cites that format but notes the sale of a copy on "Gr. Pap." presumably a copy in this format. Over the last 35 years ABPC records sale of one copy in quarto 1999 and four in octavo. ESTC R12599 & R236817; Wing B2718 octavo edition only; Darlow & Moule 4692; Brunet I:863 Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye, sub signo Campanae in Cometerio D. Pauli unknown 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
1612263145London: Imprinted by Robert Barker 1612. 2344double-spread map; 4362 i.e. 366 361-444 2 3- 135 7 leaves; 1114 i.e. 1137pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Old calf rebacked with portions of original backstrip laid down remnants of gilt borders on boards 20th century endsheets and inserted sectional dividing blanks. Maps illustrations engraved general title to Bible. Entirety of all three works ruled in red. Genealogies: map has repairs to edges and is remargined at gutter no loss to image small spot to margin and a bit of soiling. Bible: engraved title and full-page woodcut of the Garden of Eden trimmed close and shaved at fore-margin normal page numbering errors in gathering 3K occasional modest soiling and some generally minor spotting. a few small marginal repairs one a tear in lower edge of 2Z3 across several lines without loss minute worm track in inner gutter of 2M-T; Psalms: repaired tear in upper margin of A3 touching a few letters K1-7 a bit limp and frayed with repairs to two lower blank forecorners; K8 terminal blank wanting; some moderate scattered soiling minute wormhole in black fore-margin of leaves G8 to end some rust satins to gutter/inner margins of gatherings G and H resulting in a few small holds; bookseller's annotations on pastedowns in ink !!! describing it an "exceptionally fine volume" and giving partially erroneous bibliographic citations. Still generally a good volume. 2344double-spread map; 4362 i.e. 366 361-444 2 3- 135 7 leaves; 1114 i.e. 1137pp. 1 vols. Small folio. A characteristic gathering of the three texts the Bible being the Geneva-Tonson-Junius version in an edition that is a very close reprint of Barker's 1607 edition. The general engraved title is undated and the sectional full title-page for the NT is dated 1611 but the printer's colophon at the end is dated 1612. The text of the Apocrypha is included as a part of the contiguous whole. The edition of the Genealogies which is here bound prior to the Bible is one of the several folio printings attributed to Beale that are partially sorted as to minute variants in STC and ESTC; however this example does not conform to the variants in ESTC in regard to the line-breaks in the side note on A1V. The present edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms includes some music settings. This is among the last folio London printings of the Geneva text the standard text of 16th century Protestantism and the text referenced by Shakespeare Donne Bunyan et al. The first edition of the NT was printed in Geneva in 1557 and was first printed in England in 1575-6. ESTC S1189; S101955; and S122901. Herbert 312. STC 2218; 23039 REF; and 2560 Imprinted by Robert Barker unknown books
1633156London: Robert Barker.by the Assignes of John Bill 1633. Very Early Elizabethan Printing. Tooled leather. Very Good /Custom Case. 12mo original tooled leather 17th century binding engraved frontispiece very closely cut borders all edges gilded original green silk page divider viii blank ~ 524 vi blank pages. THE NEW TES_/ TAMENT / Of our Lord and / S A V I O V R / - Jesus Christ Newly translated out of the / Originall Grrek : and / with the former transla- / tions diligently compared / and revised by his Maie- / sties special commande- / ment. ---------------------------- Imprinted at London / By Robert Barker Printer / to the Kings most Excel- / lent Majesty and by / the Assignes of John Bill 1633. Cum privilegia. A GEM! In an original tooled leather binding no less. Beautiful clear type. Minimal wear. Some pages so closely cropped by the printer that the chapter headings at the top have been partially excised though not the text. In order to ensure its proper long-term preservation we commissioned Scott Kellar distinguished Chicago bookbinder and restorer to make minor professional repairs and to construct a protective box for this already Exceptional and Rare tiny edition of the Authorized King James version of the New Testament. Finely bound in contemporary tan embossed calf over wooden boards richly gilt to spine. four hubs and boards. Marbled pastedowns & endpaper. a.e.g. and gauffered. Spine very slightly rubbed with partial loss of caps at head and foot restored and almost invisible. Edges of engraved title page reinforced; overall a fine copy. Ink inscriptions on two front free endpapers naming "Edmund James Gore" & his London addresses. The continental binding on this small format Authorized version MAY suggest that it might be a pirated edition of the English Bible pirated in Amsterdam. For example the Stam printing family were printing small format Bibles in 1673-- after our publication see Cambridge History of the Book in Britain IV p.467. Herbert 713-14 Wing B2511A. Robert Barker...by the Assignes of John Bill hardcover books
18957527New York: American Bible Society 1895. Hard Cover. First edition of this Bible volume I only; folio 14" x 13" 164 leaves embossed in the New York Point Alphabet for the Blind which is a system of tactile raised dots similar to Braille. Contemporary 3/4 calf over tan cloth covered boards spine ruled in gilt; spine label is absent. New York Point for the Blind was invented by William Bell Wait 1839-1916 educator for the Blind as an alternative to the "Line Letter" system consisting of raised letters of the standard alphabet which was in use in the late 19th Century and lasted for several decades. But Braille had been invented by Louis Braille in 1824 but fell into disuse only to be revived in the early 20th Century and Braille remains today the standard in reading and writing for the Blind throughout the world. Internally quite clean with the embossed dots in very good condition; small loss at head of spine and corners worn through; a very good copy now quite scarce on the market. <br/><br/> American Bible Society hardcover books
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
