PLATT, Thomas Pell ; [ ABU RUMI ; ASSELIN DE CHERVILLE ]Livre Rare Book
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182937035Edidit Thomas Pell Platt A.M., 1 vol. petit in-4 reliure de l'époque pleine basane marron estampée à froid, impression en deux couleurs, Impensis Societatis Ad Biblia sacra in Britannia et apud exteras gentes evulganda Institutae, Impressit Ricardus Watts [Richard Watts ], Londini [ Londres, London ], 1829, [-]2, B-Z4 2A-2Q4, 2R2, B*-Z*4, AA*-ZZ*4, AAA*-DDD*4, DDD**4.
1573028649Basileae 1573 Per Petrum Pernam Full-Leather (Hardcover)
2012WRCLIT70037New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York 2012. 20; 20pp. text in both English and German plus twenty-five original leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Large folio. Fine. In a custom clamshell box. The German Bible in America has a long and significant history reflective of the European culture which gave it birth the local conditions of Pennsylvania where it rose to its greatest heights and the rich German-American culture created by emigrants and their descendants in the 19th-century United States. From the first American edition of a Bible in German in 1743 through the late 19th century numerous printers and publishers issued Bibles in various formats ranging from large folios intended for lectern use to smaller versions for personal study. This leaf book celebrates the range and richness of these productions indicative of the world of German culture in America in the 18th and 19th centuries as expressed through its most widely studied text in a series of twenty- five leaves. Each set contains two versions of the descriptive text one in English and the other in German with an introduction by Don Yoder Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies Folklore and Folk-Life at the University of Pennsylvania. Further text describes the printers of each of the leaves the circumstances under which they were printed and other attributes. Each leaf is enclosed in an individual folder.The German Bible in America is issued in an edition of sixty copies with fifty of the regular series and ten additional deluxe copies containing six extra leaves of illustrations from the illustrated Bibles included in the collection. This is one of fifty regular copies numbered by hand. A deluxe issue with six additional illustrated leaves is also available for $3500. unknown books
17152008180153Amsterdam London : Printed in the year 1715 1715. Hardcover. Acceptable. Colonial Maryland Bible: Curson / Moale / Hoffman / Lord Families of Baltimore Thick folio; 40.8 x 24.5 cm 16 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Extremely worn contemporary leather binding. Binding rebacked. Toning staining. Text printed in two columns. 6 engraved maps by Joseph Moxon: "Map of all the Earth"; "Paradise or the Garden of Eden"; "Israel's Peregrination"; "Jerusalem"; "Canaan The Land of Promise"; and "The Travels of St. Paul and other the Apostles". Chip missing from margin of engraved frontispiece title. Title margin stained. Final two leaves list of tables have loss at the fore-edge entering into the text. "Folio King James Version with Geneva notes likely printed at Amsterdam" Herbert 936; ESTC T82272; Darlow & Moule 936. <br> Provenance: This book was in the Curzon family and their descendants for more than 250 years. There are extensive genealogical information including 28 hand written entries over multiple generations on the Apocraypha title page. The entries begin with Richard Curson 1726-1805 and Elizabeth Becker 1731-1787. Richard was an English emigrant to colonial New York who became a prominent merchant banker and patriot buried Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery in Baltimore. The Cursons were sympathetic to the American Revolution and fled the British occupation of New York City for Baltimore. Additional note: His granddaughter was the first American-born Catholic Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774-1821. Richard Jr. continued his father's wine trade and outfitted eight of his ships as privateers during the Revolution. Ownership passed then to Richard Jr.'s daughter Elizabeth Curson d. 1880 who married Samuel Hoffman. Includes the records of Richard Curzon Hoffman a Confederate officer in the Twenty-first Virginia Volunteer Infantry Stonewall Jackson's Second Brigade 1861-1865. The final genealogical entry is for Eliza Lawrence Hoffman b. 1891. Later the book passed to Henrietta Mactier Hoffman who married Walter Lord Sr. Early signature of Ellin Moale Curson and others. Bookplate of the author Walter Lord. John Walter Lord Jr. 1917-2002 was a noted author of more than 12 books including an account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic "A Night to Remember." Includes some related Baltimore ephemera. Lord died without issue and this Bible passed out of the family's hands after his death. Later owned by Frances Tower Thacher a descendant of the Vanderbilt family. Further note: Tucked into an old piece of paper is a four-leaf clover I have not tested its luck but it may still yield fortuitous qualities. [Amsterdam] [London] : Printed in the year 1715 hardcover
181160229Hernösandesne Carolen G. Nordinen Trykkeriast 1811. 8vo. In modest contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Repair to hinges and head of spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Stamp to title-page and last leaf of text. Internally very fine and clean. A fine copy. 2 687 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>Rare second printing published simultaneously with the Editio Princeps of the complete bible Darlow & Moule 6060 of the second translation of the the New Testament into the Sami language. In 1808 Dr. Paterson and Dr. Henderson who were visiting Torneå as delegates of the B.F.B.S. British and Foreign Bible Society reported the preparation of the Lapp Bible the Editio Princeps to the London Committee. ON hearing of the activities of the B.F.B.S. Bishop Nordin suggested that the Society should publish a separate edition of the N.T. The London Committee made a grant of 250l. towards this object; and under the care of the Evangelical Society of Stockholm which supplied the paper an edition … was printed with the same type as athe Bible of 1811 and issued concurrently with it. The edition was intended chiefly for gratuitous circulation and copies were distributed among Lapps by the aid of the Swedish Government. Darlow & Moule 6061 Darlow & Moule 6061. </em> hardcover
181160229Hernösandesne, Carolen G. Nordinen Trykkeriast, 1811. 8vo. In modest contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Repair to hinges and head of spine. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. Stamp to title-page and last leaf of text. Internally very fine and clean. A fine copy. (2), 687, (1) pp.
1849347800London: Printed for the Use of the Mission in Labrador by the British and Foreign Bible Society 1849. Text in Inuktitut. 4 675 1pp. 12mo. Good. Text in Inuktitut. 4 675 1pp. 12mo. First edition. 12mo. 5 2-675 1 pp. Text aside from title page and publication information in the Eskimo Inuktitut language. Full calf by "Watkins Binder" with their tiny ticket on the rear pastedown. Ex-Bowdoin College Library with their bookplate and withdrawn stamp on front pastedown spine label unobtrusive blindstamp on title page and small inked number on copyright page. Binding worn with a vertical split at the spine and slight loss at the spine ends lacking the rear flyleaf a sound good copy. With a worn leaf from an earlier New Testament translation from the Gospel of Luke laid in. An early Moravian translation of portions of the Old Testament for use in Labrador. OCLC seems to locate 19 copies over several records but only six copies in the U.S. Sabin 75836; Pilling 3461; Darlow & Moole 3518 Printed for the Use of the Mission in Labrador by the British and Foreign Bible Society unknown
158068068London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie 1580. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BARKER ChristopherHERREY Robert F. A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances"<br> <br> BIBLE IN ENGLISH. BARKER Christopher. HERREY Robert F. compiler. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue Caldean Greeke and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables for breuitie sake is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. 1580.<br> <br> First Edition. One of two issues of the same year priority unknown. Our year based upon the issue points as shown by the British Library: "with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the" ESTC S125409. Quarto 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 236 x 185 mm. 92 leaves. A8-L8 M4. With preface signed "Thine in the Lord Robart F. Herrey" and dated "xxii of December. An. Domini. 1578." We could find no other complete copies of this first edition of "Concordance" at auction in the past 50 years.<br> <br> Although this comes separately The Herrey "Concordance" is generally found issued with a Barker Geneva Bible starting with the date 1580. There were several printings of this "Concordance" starting in 1580 and going into the next decade however only the present copy and one other printing were issued with the two versions of the Barker Bibles of 1580. Present copy with Signatures: A-L M and with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the". This version was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 123. Another version of the same year with Signatures: A-C D-V was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 124.<br> <br> Bound separately in modern full brown morocco. Covers ruled in triple blind and with a central "Cross" devise in blind on both covers. Newer endpapers. Some occasional ink small hand marginalia. Edges of leaves a bit frayed. A stain to bottom margin of leaves H2-H3. A paper repair to bottom margin of final leaf M4 not affecting text. Overall very good.<br> <br> According to Herbert and Darlow & Moule " The Concordances which form an essential part of the volume of the Bible were compiled by Robart F. Herrey who is identified with Robert Harrison the Norfolk Brownist 9d. 1585"<br> <br> Darlow & Moule 123. ESTC S125409 . Herbert 165. STC 13228b.1 .<br> <br> HBS 68068.<br> <br> $2850. Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie unknown
158068068A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances" BIBLE IN ENGLISH. BARKER Christopher. HERREY Robert F. compiler. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue Caldean Greeke and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables for breuitie sake is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. 1580. First Edition. One of two issues of the same year priority unknown. Our year based upon the issue points as shown by the British Library: "with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the"" ESTC S125409. Quarto 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 236 x 185 mm. 92 leaves. A8-L8 M4. With preface signed "Thine in the Lord Robart F. Herrey" and dated "xxii of December. An. Domini. 1578." We could find no other complete copies of this first edition of "Concordance" at auction in the past 50 years. Although this comes separately The Herrey "Concordance" is generally found issued with a Barker Geneva Bible starting with the date 1580. There were several printings of this "Concordance" starting in 1580 and going into the next decade however only the present copy and one other printing were issued with the two versions of the Barker Bibles of 1580. Present copy with Signatures: A-L M and with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the". This version was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 123. Another version of the same year with Signatures: A-C D-V was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 124. Bound separately in modern full brown morocco. Covers ruled in triple blind and with a central "Cross" devise in blind on both covers. Newer endpapers. Some occasional ink small hand marginalia. Edges of leaves a bit frayed. A stain to bottom margin of leaves H2-H3. A paper repair to bottom margin of final leaf M4 not affecting text. Overall very good. According to Herbert and Darlow & Moule " The Concordances which form an essential part of the volume of the Bible were compiled by Robart F. Herrey who is identified with Robert Harrison the Norfolk Brownist 9d. 1585" Darlow & Moule 123. ESTC S125409 . Herbert 165. STC 13228b.1 . HBS 68068. $2850 Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. unknown books
108840aafZürich, Conrad Orell, 1755-56-56, in-Folio, 2-spalt. Text, insgesamt 1358 S. und 26 ganzseit. gestoch. Bildtafeln, vereinzelt etwas stock-, tinten- und fingerfleckig, im allgemeinen frisches Papier, letzte Bl. mit winzigen Wurmlöchern, schöner Holzdeckelband auf Bünden bezogen mit reichlich blindgeprägtem Pergament, etwas angestaubt, fleckig, berieben und Kratzspuren, 2 Kupferschliessen, Rotschnitt.
1984266258Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited. hardcover. fine. Over 100 colorful illustrations embellished with gold; decorated initial letters throughout. 8vo full brown leather elaborately decorated in blind-stamp; raised bands & papal seal on spine. Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Beautiful facsimile of a 13th century bibletranslated by St. Jerome in the Vatican Library Codex Vaticanus Latinus 39. Signed by the Prefect of the Bibliteca Apostolica Vaticana this is an edition of 600 copies but this one is marked "Sample not for sale." Housed in a special silk cloth presentation case.<br/><br/> Belser unknown books
866Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie 1606. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Unpaginated. 164pp. A8-K8 L2. Contemporary blindstamped calf hinges weak. Spine partially missing. All bosses intact. ESTC S102034; STC 2nd. Ed 13230. Bound with: The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteined. Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 1606. Quarto. 2 435 i.e. 434 4 441-554ff. Geneva version. ESTC S102033; STC 2nd ed. 2197. <br/> <br/> Imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1606. hardcover
1844209026New York: American Bible Society 1844. Fourteenth Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. Gilded text block edges. American Bible Society hardcover
163324066London: Pr. by Augustine Mathewes one of the assignes of Hester Ogden 1633. Folio 33.3 cm 13.25". Frontis. engr. t.-p. 58 912 18 25 1 206 2 17 1 blank pp. <br><br>When the Jesuit scholars at Rheims succeeded in printing their Catholic translation of the New Testament into English first edition 1582 the event affected various English Protestant scholars in different ways: Some were offended or outraged others intrigued and yet others spurred to action. William Fulke of Pembroke College Cambridge was among those offended outraged and spurred: In 1589 he produced the first edition of his work attempting to refute the Rheims New Testament. His approach however which was to print the Rheims NT in parallel columns with the Bishops' NT the then accepted version of the Church of England supplying accompanying notes and explanations had unforeseen consequences.<br>Â Â Â Â As Darlow and Moule comment "by printing the Rheims Testament in full side by side with the Bishops' version Fulke 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." Alan Thomas elaborates by observing that "many a dignified or felicitous phrase was silently lifted by the editors of King James's Version and thus passed into the language" Great Books and Book Collectors p. 108.<br>Â Â Â Â This is the fourth edition "wherein are many grosse absurdities corrected." A portrait of William Fulke precedes the engraved title-page both done by William Marshall. The Biblical text is followed as issued by Fulke's Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue against the Manifold Cavils Frivolous Quarrels and Impudent Slanders of Gregorie Martin. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â STC 2nd ed. 2947; Darlow & Moule 371; ESTC S121246; Herbert 480. Contemporary mottled calf covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label all edges gilt; binding rubbed leather moderately acid-pitted joints cracked rectangle of leather lost at upper inner corner of front cover. Lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped; free endpapers excised; lower outer corners lightly waterstained at rear; pages otherwise slightly age-toned but notably clean. A sound good copy. Pr. by Augustine Mathewes on[e] of the assignes of Hester Ogden hardcover books
1791373974Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. Contemporary calf spine with raised bands ruled in gilt on either side of each band. Foxing and toning front endpaper detached. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88. <br /> <br /> Thomas' quarto bible was published in three distinct issues: with 2 copperplates only i.e. frontispieces to the Old and New Testaments as here; with two copperplates and John Brown's 89-page concordance in the rear; and the rarest and most deluxe form with 48 copperplates and the concordance.<br /> <br /> A very difficult edition to find in a contemporary unsophisticated binding. Evans 23185; Hills 30; ESTC W4496 Isaiah Thomas unknown
172755069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound.<br /> <br /> An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover
1638B1795Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge c. 1638. In “Book of Common Prayer†leaf H7 is torn with approximately 120 x 60 mm loss to text and lacks the following leaf ¶1 which is likely a title. H7 says “Finis†but it is possible that there is another missing leaf H8 before ¶1. V5 of Bible has a 40 mm tear into the text with no loss repaired. Light age-toning minor occasional brown spots. A very good copy. . Binding: Contemporary full gilt calf repetitive semi-circle and fleur-de-lis design on the inside along a straight lined gilt border within another straight lined gilt border with gilt floral design corner pieces and gilt floral design in the centre of each side of the outer border all within another repetitive oval and floral gilt border on both upper and lower boards. Rebacked expertly saving the original spine with 7 densely gilt compartments of raised bands title in gilt on two all edges in gilt marbled paste-down and free end papers. Notes: An early copy of the King James Bible which was first published in 1611. Size: 4to Illustration: Engraved title page within wide band fleur-de-lis border also contains a printers device of a woman holding a sun and a goblet faint signature of previous owner in early ink on title page elaborate head and tail pieces. Volume: Four volumes in one. References: Wing 2692; not in Herbert Pages: P. 2 ff. A4B-G8 H7; ¶2-8 A-H8I4; K-X8Y4Z8 Aa-Zz8 Aaa8 Bbb4 Ccc-Zzz8 Aaaa-Dddd8Eeee4; A-G8H4 2 ff. Category: Book Religious Christianity Printers to the University of Cambridge hardcover
1949CNJL314Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company 1949. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Rogers Bruce. Two volumes the Bible one of 975 copies elephant folio size 942 pp. and Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies quarto size 41 pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers this time for an American publisher his first was the "Oxford Lectern Bible" published in 1935 using the King James Version. No other book designer / typographer from the history of printing can claim to have designed two complete folio Bibles each one highly regarded. Bruce Rogers 1870-1857 American typographer who invented the "Centaur" tyepface based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson is considered by many to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. He designed books for the Riverside Press Cambridge when he cut his first typeface "Montaigne" named for the first book it appeared in "The Essays of Montaigne" 1903; he designed "Centaur" while working as house designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1916 he worked for the Cambridge University Press and a few years later returned to the U.S. where he met William Edwin Rudge and was employed by him at his Mount Vernon Press. During this time he also designed books for Harvard University Press and served as typographic advisor to Lanston Monotype. In 1928 Rogers returned to England where he produced what many have called "the most important and notable typographic achievement of the twentieth century" being his Oxford Lectern Bible. The present work was done during his later years but is no less formidable in both size and scope and essential to any collection of his work.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped illustration to upper board lettered in gilt to backstrip top-edge gilt quarto volume in matching red cloth with similar gilt motif to upper board and gilt lettering to backstrip with original glassine jacket and housed in a blue paper slipcase numerous flourishes and initials vintage bookseller ticket on rear pastedown; types used include Fred Goudy's Deepdene Italic Forum and Oldstyle type paper is 74 lb. 75 percent white linen rag paper from Barcham Green Mill in England elephant folio size 19.25" by 14"; "Making of the Bible" quarto size 11.5" by 8.5" pagination: Bible i-vi vii-xxii xxiii-xxiv 1-941 942 1 colophon; Making of the Bible 1-4 5-19 20-41 limited first editions of both volumes with the folio being one of 975 copies and the accompanying quarto being number 178 of 1875 copies.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A very good copy of the folio with some professional restoration to the backstrip/joints some minor rubbing at edges the binding with only light dustiness gilt is bright with a few rubbed spots and the interior clean other than some minor soiling to the endpapers free of prior owner markings one very short closed tear to the upper margin of the dedication page to King James; quarto fine overall with some extremely light wear to the joints at the head and tail of the spine its glassine wrapper alas fair only as the spine has perished and we only have the panels/flaps its slipcase very good plus sturdy with some overall wear.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an extremely large and heavy book and therefore additional postage will apply as the standard shipping charge will not cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
197230497Paris, Fernand Mourlot / Musées de France, (1972). Un vol. au format in-4 (328 x 257 mm) de 199 pp. Reliure d'édition de pleine toile gris-perle, sous jaquette illustrée et rhodoïd.
16017682Londini London: Impensis G.Bishop. 1601. Folio pp. xlii 378 381-914 10. 20th-century half sheep pebbled cloth boards spine divided by raised bands black morocco label. Title-page trimmed and mounted final leaf also mounted a few smaller repairs to early leaves small wormhole in blank margin some foxing and occasional light marginal dampstaining. Spine rather rubbed and darkened and sometime furbished worn at ends and joints just starting to crack at head. The second edition of Fulke’s tendentious and influential comparison of the Douay-Rheims and Bishops’ translations of the New Testament with his notes and commentary intended to refute the arguments on which the former version was based. Fulke’s work with the two texts in parallel columns the Catholic in roman type and the Church of England version in italic sold better in England than the Douai Bible ever had bringing its language to a wider readership and becoming indirectly responsible for its influence on the coming King James version. ESTC S107069. Impensis G.B[ishop]. hardcover
1657AQ33174Cambridge: Printed by John Field 1657. 1354pp. Title printed within an ornamental border containing the seal of Cambridge University signed: Rob. Vaughan sculp. The New Testament and the Psalms both have separate title pages dated 1657 the register is continuous. Handsomely bound by Gilmour of Salisbury in early nineteenth-century black panelled morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed some surface loss to upper board. Armorial bookplate of J. L. Jackson with later pencilled inscription 'to Mr. Calcraft. John 1.29. I Thess. v. 23 ' to FEP head of text-block trimmed with occasional loss to running- title small hole to leaf Cc1 with slight loss of text and sense very occasional chipping to margins. A choice example of a Commonwealth era Cambridge-printed King James Bible notorious for its errors from the press of John Field in a finely executed later provincial binding - to a very distinct style - by the Gilmour family Andrew then George of binders and stationers of Salisbury fl.1800 onwards. As was noted by the contemporary pamphleteer William Kilburne in his Dangerous errors in several late printed Bibles London 1659 part of a series railing against the poor-quality Bible printing work of Henry Hills and John Field this edition omits Psalms Ch.143 v.4 in its entirety 'and there are many other faults as I am well informed of very great notoriety'. Provenance: With the bookplate of James Leonard Jackson 1777-1854 rector at St. Mary's Church Swanage; presented by him to a male member of the Calcraft family of Wareham most likely John Hales Calcraft 1796-1880 Member of Parliament for Wareham. ESTC R38638 Herbert 656 Wing B2252. 8vo. Printed by John Field unknown
63592London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1802. 9 vols. 8vo. 23.5 x 14 cm. Handsomely bound in straight grained dark blue morocco sides ruled with gilt fillet border enclosing blindstamed central panel smooth spines with gilt rules and gilt lettering inner dentelles with with greek key motif marbled endpapers silk ribbon page markers all edges gilt. Gilt leather label to front inner board of Vol. 1 of 'W. & G. Foyle Ltd.' Some light trivial shelfwear contents clean save for some spotting to 'Notes' section at end of Vol. 1 generally an excellent handsomely bound set. Vol. 1: Genesis - Numbers Vol. 2: Deuteronomy - 2 Samuel Vol. 3: 1 Kings - Esther Vol. 4: Job - Psalms Vol. 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah Vol. 6: Ezekiel - Malachi Vol. 7: The Apocrypha Vol. 8: Matthew - Acts Vol. 9: Romans- Revelation London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., 1802. hardcover
1665AQ28955Cantabrigiae i.e. Cambridge: Excusum Per Joannem Field Typographum Academicum 1665. 2 19 1; 755 1; 516pp. Lower corner of K6 torn away with some loss. Darlow & Moule 4701. ESTC R236848. Wing B2719. Bound uniformly with: BIBLE N.T. Greek. Greek title. Cambridge. John Field 1665. 12mo. 2 419pp 1. Small thumbnail sized piece torn away from margin of A4 with a little loss. ESTC R25629. And: PSALTER - Church of Scotland. The psalms of david in meeter. Newly translated and diligently compared with the originall Text.Allowed by the Authority of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland and appointed to be sun in Congregations and Families. Edinburgh. Printed by Evan Tyler 1650. First edition. 18mo. 72pp. ESTC R235432. Three volumes bound uniformly with the first mentioned bound in two volumes and the second and third mentioned bound together in the third volume in contemporary blind-decorated sombre black panelled morocco with central flower device to each spine compartment. Marbled endpapers. A little rubbed some small chips to spines at head and foot some occasional shaving of pagination. With the later ownership inscriptions of several members of a Scottish Mylne family and those of W.W. Greg dated 1925 in the first volume. A choice copy of the third English edition of the Greek Septuagint printed by John Field at Cambridge bound uniformly - in handsome seventeenth-century sombre bindings - with Field's companion New Testament in Greek a reprint of the Thomas Buck edition Cambridge 1632 and the 1650 first edition of the Scottish Metrical Psalter. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England was published by Roger Daniel 1653 with the second appearing in Walton's Polyglot edition of 1657. This edition published by John Field Printer to Cambridge University is also the first to contain the praefatio paraenetica of J. Pearson. Issued in two slight variant forms with differing Greek titles this is the issue without the Apocrypha. The presence of the Scottish Psalter printed by Evan Tyler of Edinburgh at the end of the final of these three volumes combined with the later Scottish provenance makes this cataloguer wonder if these volumes were used - and perhaps even bound - in Scotland. Provenance: Sir Walter Wilson Greg 1875-1959 Shakespearean scholar and bibliographer best known for his A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. . Third English edition. 12mo. Excusum Per Joannem Field, Typographum Academicum unknown
1926149674Waltham St Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1926. The Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ with six wood-engravings by Eric Gill rare with dust jacket Limited edition number 31 of 250 copies only. Reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement on 29 July 1926 the reviewer noted "this is a production for which we have nothing but praise. The first requirements a harmony of form and balance of weight between illustrations and type are perfectly fulfilled. In spirit Mr Gill's illustrations could hardly be bettered; they are both religious and decorative." Quarto. 2 full-page and 4 other illustrations by Gill. Original white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Text printed in red and black. With dust jacket. Minimal soiling to covers with corners slightly bumped else an attractive near-fine copy. Dust jacket toned at spine with extremities frayed still a very good copy of a scarce dust jacket. Gill 276. hardcover
1840180962Paihia: Church Missionary Society Press 1840. First Te Reo Maori edition of The Book of Daniel and The Book of Jonah the second expanded issue with the addition of the seventh book of Daniel published by William Colenso 1811-1899 on the Church Missionary Society Press. The press was the second to arrive in Aotearoa in December 1834 and printed many important documents including the Treaty of Waitangi also printed in 1840. This edition was printed by William Colenso 1811-1899 an Anglican missionary and publisher from Penzance Cornwall also notable for his contributions to botany in New Zealand. Colenso famously recorded the speeches performed at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and would criticize the new government for taking advantage of language barriers to progress colonial interests. Colenso had little interest in government printing jobs recording in his diary "In January '40 H.M.S. Herald arrived in the Bay of Islands bringing Capt. Hobson R.N. who was our first Governor. Immediately on his arrival my hands were full to overflowing with extra printing for the new Govt. and that too in the English language for which I had no type cases and was therefore obliged to have the additional "sorts" of letters in little piles on tables and boxes and even on the floor" Manuscript at The National Library Wellington. This book is also notable as an early example of Te Reo Maori in print which was an almost entirely oral language before the 19th century. As the bibliographer Herbert Williams writes "the books printed for Maori particularly those which appealed to Maori most strongly were used and perished in the using." While early Bible translations in Te Reo Maori are often credited to Colenso Herbert Williams says that W. G. Puckey 1805-1878 made these translations stating that the original manuscript for this pamphlet was "dated 1836 at which date Colenso would hardly have been competent for the task" and that after inspecting the manuscript Puckey's son was confident it was in his father's handwriting. As well as being a skilled linguist Puckey was also an accomplished boatbuilder and carpenter who oversaw the construction of many early buildings in the Northland region. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey a gift of Christopher de Hamel auctioneer at Sotheby's Fellow of Corpus Christi Cambridge Roxburge Club Member and historian author of books about Bibles and illuminated manuscripts. Octavo 32 pp. Uncut in original plain wrappers sewn as issued a few gatherings unopened. Small loss to front wrapper and upper margins of first two leaves foot of rear cover toned a few faint damp stains to margins of contents else clean internally. A very good copy. Herbert W. Williams A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 44. unknown
