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1850005919Stuttgart: Maler Renz 1850. Hardcover. Fair. 2 p. 40 leaves of hand-colored illustrations with captions from the New Testament; 22 cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and decoration. No date of publication. Little is known about the publisher Maler Renz but it was active in the mid-19th century. This title is not in WorldCat. The title page verso contains a poem by German poet Albert Knapp 1798-1864. Very scarce. In Fair Condition: cover is rubbed and slightly soiled; lacking number 9 and 2/3 of number 10; numbers 30 and 32 are detached but present with chipping along fore-edges; number 34 lacking lower corner without loss of illustration or caption; numerous closed tears; finger soiling throughout. Maler Renz hardcover
1837002335Amsterdam: Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie 1837. Hardcover. Fair. Door last van de der Hoog Mog: Heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden en Volgens het Besluit vande Sinode Nationaal gehouden in de Jaren 1618 en 1619 te Dordrecht." 416 132 96 65 2 leaves 1422 p.: music; 17 cm. Full contemporary calf with five gilt-ruled spine compartments; gilt-tooled titled in second compartment. Gilt-ruled borders on each board. One center clasp. Marbled endpapers. Former owner's name on blank leaf following front free endpaper: Matje. Broodman. States-General version. Engraved title page with Acte van consent dated 1832 on verso. New Testament and Psalms have separate title pages dated 1837. Without the Apocrypha. Followed by: Het Boek der Psalmen dated 1837. Circular stamp at upper corner of 3rd leaf and on last page: Bybel Genootschap. In Fair Condition: both boards are detached but present; front free endpaper engraved title page and following leaf detached as a unit; 3 cm. along lower edge of engraved title lacking; back free endpaper detached but present; creasing of some page corners; text block is otherwise solid. Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie hardcover
1821004582Reading Pa: Johann Ritter und Comp 1821. Hardcover. Good. Die Zweyte Auflage. 251 1 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf. Bound with one set of clasps but only the hardware on the front board remains. Last page contains a multiplication table. Former owner's name at foot of last page: Aaron Roland. The same name in pencil on the title page verso and back fixed endpaper. Early American Imprints ser. 2 Shoemaker 4700; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A 2516. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with minor loss at head of spine; back board is scraped; lacking clasp; lacking both free endpapers and 1 leaf pp. 221-222; p. 235 scraped with small loss of text; faint dampstains throughout; otherwise clean and tight. Johann Ritter und Comp hardcover
1854003943Amsterdam: Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Imprint includes: "Te Amsterdam J. Brandt en Zoon en P. Proost; te Haarlem Johannes Enschedé en Zonen. 4 375 1 423 9 320 102 2 p.: music; 16 cm. Contemporary dark green morocco with blind-ruled borders; binding wraps around with engraved metal clasp attaching flap to front board. All page edges gilt. Pale yellow moire endpapers. Bound with as issued with separate title pages: Het Boek der Psalmen nevens de Gezangen Amsterdam: Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie 1854; and Evangelische Gezangen om nevens het Boek der Psalmen Amsterdam: J. Brandt en Zoon 1849. Also contains: Catechismus of Onderwijzing de Christelijke Leer. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed with minor loss at head of front joint; flap is starting to separate at each end but still solid; clean and tight. Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie hardcover
1872038933Oxford: Oxford University Press Henry Frowde & William Clowse 1872. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. 8vo. Diamond 48's miniature format. Hymns pp. 347 Common Prayers pp. unpaginated Proper Lessons 1872 pp. unpaginated. All three little books with bright gilt fore-edges initialed front boards and gilt lettering to spines. Slip case in black lether with some wear to edges. Contents clean and tight previous owner's names from one family "Adelaide Black from mother 1886 and 1944 Susan Adelaide Kitchingman". An attractive set of three miniatures. Oxford University Press, Henry Frowde & William Clowse Hardcover
1860250383Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell 1860 circa. Stereotype Edition. Hardcover. Quarto full brown morocco extra-gilt floral covers light tidal stain at gutter and affecting the rear cover a bit inner dentelles lacks its single clasp a.e.g. with a few pressed flowers too. <br/><br/>Illustrated with steel-plate engravings by Richard Westall and others maps Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell hardcover
188626093Baltimore Boston Hartford New York Cincinnati: Gately 1886. Stereotype Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto; full brown morocco extra-gilt covers two steel clasps new leather at the head of the spine all edges gilt. Presented as a gift from Mr. & Mrs. Emanuel List to Mr. & Mrs. David List with several pages of genealogic notes within and spaces for Family Portraits at the end. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/>With many other Inclusions such as a History of Translations of the Bible a History of all Religious Denominations Apocrypha and Psalms in Metre and over 2000 illustrations and maps on Steel Wood and in Colors. The New Testament here has the old King James' version and the revised version arranged in parallel columns for convenience in reference and comparison. Gately hardcover
18302020525Lunenberg MA: Edmund Cushing 1830 1831. New Edition. Hardcover. VG contemp. full calf some light waterstains. Quarto; 929 160 pages full calf head of spine chipped heel of spine has a two-inch tear damstaiin at bottom of gutter affecting the preliminary leaves. <br/><br/>Illustrated with full-page woodcuts. Edmund Cushing hardcover
1896230309New York & London: Fowler And Wells / L. N. Fowler & Co. 1896 or earlier. Early Fowler Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo; 4 419 unpaginated leaves 44 pp. of Alphabetical Appendix To The New Testament in the publisher's black embossed cloth with bevelled boards gilt-stamped spine 186 x 127mm rubber-stamped on front pastedown "Private Library / G. H. Bolick / Hickory N.C." Very Scarce. <br/><br/>Benjamin Wilson was a Campbellite before he became a founder of the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith and was the editor and publisher of "The Gospel Banner". When not editing that journal he created this acclaimed interlinear word by word translation of the New Testament. It was originally issued in parts during 1863-1864 from his print shop in Geneva Illinois. This is the first New York edition of the completed work. After Wilson's death in 1900 the International Bible Students Association bought the rights to his work and began publishing this text in 1902. It continues to be distibuted today by The Watchtower Society a.k.a. Watch Tower Society guaranteeing its continued influence among Bible students. Herbert HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE no. 1950: " Although the Library of Congress has a card covering a first New York edition of 1864 no copy has been located. Only one copy of that Geneva Illinois edition has been cited by the Book Auction Records and that was in 2023 it is slightly incomplete. This copy shows only an 1864 copyright date. This is a bi-lingual text with the Greek with an interlineal translation with a readable English text at the right margin. The address of Fowler And Wells is 27 East 21st New York and and by L. N. Fowler 7 Imperial Arcade Ludgate Circus. Fowler And Wells / L. N. Fowler & Co. hardcover
18652020172New York: Fowler And Wells 1865. First Fowler Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo; 4 419 unpaginated leaves 4 44 pp. of Alphabetical Appendix To The New Testament lacking pp. 39ff - supplied in facsimile; recased with the publisher's cloth boards and a new leather spine title-page chipped some other page wear.Scarce. <br/><br/>Benjamin Wilson was a Campbellite before he became a founder of the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith and was the editor and publisher of "The Gospel Banner". When not editing that journal he created this acclaimed interlinear word by word translation of the New Testament. The Preface tells that this was originally issued in parts during 1863-1864 from his print shop in Geneva Illinois but no copies are known. This is the first New York edition of the completed work. After Wilson's death in 1900 the International Bible Students Association bought the rights to his work and began publishing this text in 1902. It continues to be distibuted today by The Watchtower Society a.k.a. Watch Tower Society guaranteeing its continued influence among Bible students. Herbert HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE no. 1950 . Although the Library of Congress has a card covering a first New York edition of 1864 no copy has been located: whereas this copy IS copyrighted 1864 but lacks the statement "Electrotyped by B. Wilson Geneva Illinois." It was issued by Fowler and Wells in 1865". This copy shows only an 1864 copyright date. Only one copy of that Geneva Illinois first book edition is cited in the Book Auction Records and that was in 2023. This is a bi-lingual text with the Greek with an interlineal translation with a readable English text at the right margin. The address of Fowler And Wells is 389 Broadway. A map of the Holy Land was inserted at page 3 before the Appendix. Fowler And Wells hardcover
1862321072New York: American Bible Society 1862. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blindstamped leather. Rubbed lower board and last leaf detached. Good. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An early example of Armenian printing in America. The Armenian Bible was first printed in New York in 1859. "The translation of the OT begun . by H.G.O. Dwight and others . was completed by Elias Riggs. The NT is the version by J. Zohrab revised by J.B. Adger in 1841-2" Darlow & Moule 1851. OCLC: 39994158 Yale American Bible Society unknown
186249952Glasgow Edinburgh and London: William Mackenzie 1862. Deluxe Edition. Two volumes folio 450 x 330 mm published between 1862 and 1863. 16 1344pp. 57 unnumbered leaves of albumin prints 230 x 160mm mounted on card stock. Crimson morocco over wooden boards elaborately tooled in gilt and blind; edges mounted in brass double brass clasps with thistle motif; covers with a broad blind-stamped border around a recessed central panel with the crowned cipher of Queen Victoria in gilt; gilt tooled spine with 5 raised bands; a.e.g. marbled endleaves with gilt dentelles. Covers with some mild traces of use; single crease in each marbled endleaf partially detached in second volume; occasional light to moderate foxing mostly confined to the plate mounts; albumin prints in fine condition often with foxing extending about 5mm from the edges into the mount. Overall a very good set with a fine series of photographs notable for their technical achievment.<br /> <br /> Deluxe edition one of 170 copies complete with all 57 albumen prints. Produced for the 1862 International Exhibition and dedicated to Queen Victoria then recently in mourning for the death of Prince Albert this work appeared at a time when photography though still a laborious and expensive process was just beginning to become a popular activity. Victoria herself was an amateur photographer and "the royal couple had been enthusiastic supporters of photography in England from the beginning; in 1853 they became founding patrons of the Photographic Society Club" K. Fiedorek. Francis Frith 1822-1898 the devout Quaker whose photographic images grace the present work was one of the best-known photographers to work in the Near East and the most commercially successful photographer of the nineteenth century. Finding his elementary studies tedious Frith left school at the age of ten apprenticed with a grocer and eventually started his own business. He later went into printing sold the grocery business to a competitor at a substantial profit and went on to devote himself to photography. "The growing Victorian interest in the East and its exotic and historic attractions caught the attention of this astute businessman" Perez. Between 1856 and 1860 Frith made three photographic expeditions to Egypt Ethiopia Sinai and the Levant accompanied by the engineer Francis Herbert Wenham who provided technical assistance in mechanics and optics. While Perez notes that Frith's "approach was always a strictly commercial one and his concern was to make truthful and accurate views of the area" he readily concedes that "the technical quality of Frith's photographs is superior." Frith employed the new wet collodion process in which glass plate negatives were sensitized exposed and developed while still wet. While technically demanding the process yielded rich detail and broad tones. "Frith's were the first original wet-plate photographs of Jerusalem and the Holy Land to reach a wide English-speaking audience and his pictures of the small Palestinian towns were most likely the first published anywhere" Nir p.66.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the most novel aspect of this celebrated edition of the Bible and certainly a harbinger of things to come was the way in which the photographer "presented the radical possibility of seeing photographs of the biblical sites alongside related verses of scripture. he sought to defend and promote his faith by conscripting the veracity of science and materialism to his cause and considered photography to be the most effective medium for his campaign" Foster et al. This vision is manifest even in such details as the re-captioning of prints previously offered for sale so that the new descriptions would more clearly reference the King James text. It should be noted that while the printing was still done by hand this was one of the earliest books for which machinery was used for composing. Original publisher's price = 50 guineas. Another version of this work was published at London in 1860-1862 by Eyre & Spottiswoode; sometimes confused with the present work it was issued in 20 parts each containing a single photographic print by Frith.<br /> <br /> K. Fiedorek A Photographic Bible Fit for a Queen NYPL Blog 2014. Foster Heiting and Stuhlman Imagining Paradise pp. 68-69. Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875 p.36 no.184. Herbert The English Bible 1940 1217. Y. Nir The Bible and the Image The History of Photography in the Holy Land 1939-1899 esp. chap. 3: "Early Traveling Landscape Photographers". N. Perez Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1838-1885 pp.163-165. William Mackenzie unknown
1819373865Lancaster Penn: Johann Bär 1819. Text in two columns. Engraved frontispieces to the OT and NT. 10 100 12 4 738 26 4 227 1 92pp. Folio. Contemporary calf covers bordered with gilt roll tools and cornerpieces covers with pictorial blocking press and stencil-masked sprinkled motif in relief Moses on the upper cover and Jesus on the lower cover spines with double-raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt with additional stencil-masked motifs in relief red morocco letter piece marbled endpaper gilt edges repair to upper joint and hinge original full calf slipcase. Text in two columns. Engraved frontispieces to the OT and NT. 10 100 12 4 738 26 4 227 1 92pp. Folio. The first German folio Bible printed in America in a very unusual and elaborate American binding and with a very early slipcase. Wright p. 139 Johann Bär unknown
1824373835New York: Edicion Estereotipica por A. Chandler 1824. First American Edition of the Bible in Spanish. 928; 251pp. 4to. Contemporary panelled calf usual wear front hinge neatly repaired. Foxing. Provenance: Essex Institute label on front pastedown. In half red morocco slipcase and chemise. First American Edition of the Bible in Spanish. 928; 251pp. 4to. First American edition of the Bible in Spanish printed by the American Bible Society for the use of missionaries in South America. It is among the earliest Catholic bibles printed in the United States noted on the verso of the titlepage as "Edicion 1". The text was taken from the Madrid edition of 1797 translated from the Latin by Felipe Scio de San Miguel Bishop of Segovia.<br /> <br /> Scarce on the market with no examples in the auction records for the last half century. Shaw & Shoemaker 15340; O'Callaghan 1824; Parsons 813 Edicion Estereotipica por A. Chandler unknown
1810373845Boston: De l'Imprimerie de J. T. Buckingham 1810. 403; 3261pp. Half-titles errata leaf at back of second volume. Uncut. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's paper-backed boards printed paper label one cover detachedsome darkening and spotting chipping and cracking of spines. Spotting and light soiling of text mostly marginal and light. Very good copies in brown cloth open faced case. 403; 3261pp. Half-titles errata leaf at back of second volume. Uncut. 2 vols. 8vo. First American edition of the Bible in French. De Sacy's translation was the most widespread French Bible of the 18th century. O'Callaghan 102; Shaw & Shoemaker 19531; Rumball-Petre "Rare Bibles" 185 De l'Imprimerie de J. T. Buckingham unknown
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
1817353306Vienna: Anton Schmidt 1817. Portrait frontispiece engraved additional title. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards the calf tooled in blind worn rear hinge cracked lacks rear pastedown frontispiece detached. Portrait frontispiece engraved additional title. 8vo. Includes commentary by Rashi and Beur. Anton Schmidt unknown
1831374628New York: Published by the Young Mens' Bible Society of New-York . M'Elrath & Bangs printers 1831. First edition. Text in English and Mohawk on facing pages. 197 1pp. 12mo. Library buckram. Foxing. Provenance: General Theological Seminary blindstamps bookplate and other markings. First edition. Text in English and Mohawk on facing pages. 197 1pp. 12mo. First edition of Hill's translation; the work was re-issued entirely in Mohawk in 1836. Named Kenweneshon by the wolf clan of the Mohawk Henry Aaron Hill d. 1834 was the son of David Hill and Christiana Brant the daughter of Joseph Brant. He served as interpreter at councils of the Six Nations and conducted services at the Mohawk chapel in Brantford. In the 1820s he began translating the gospels for publication.<br /> <br /> "Joseph Brant's Gospel of St Mark had been appended to an SPG Mohawk prayer-book printed in 1787 and John Norton's Gospel of St John had been published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804. Despite adverse comments on the quality of the translation Norton encouraged by the SPG resumed the work of completing the gospels and he enlisted Hill's aid. But Norton was tiring of the task and thought that the Mohawks themselves would prefer English bibles. The American Bible Society discovered in 1823 that Hill with the support of John Brant Tekarihogen was already working on Luke and proposed that he complete the four gospels . Hill proved to be a diligent worker. His Luke appeared in 1828 the title page says 1827 but the printer in New York Azor Hoyt had much trouble in setting the work. Three hundred and fifty copies were sent to the Methodist mission on the Grand and fifty to Lower Canada. The Church of England holding aloof from association with dissenters in bible societies made little use of the translations done by its catechist. In turn the American Bible Society's interest waned. The York Auxiliary Bible Society formed in 1828 saw that some Mohawk scriptures were already available and began work on Ojibwa translations instead. The continued publication of Mohawk scriptures was therefore undertaken by the Young Men's Bible Society of New York an auxiliary to the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Between 1831 and 1836 it sponsored translation of the rest of the New Testament with the exception of 2 Corinthians. The bulk of the work was done by Hill with corrections and completions Hill died in 1834 by Brantford merchant John Aston Wilkes Mohawk schoolmaster William Hess and Elizabeth Kerr née Brant. Hill's Isaiah finished by Hess was published by the American Bible Society in 1839 but that organization resisted pressure to proceed with the rest of the Old Testament. Hill was also the chief translator of a collection of psalms and hymns which went through separate printings for its Methodist and Anglican users" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Darlow and Moule 6801; Sabin 49844; Pilling Proof Sheets 1782; Pilling Iroquoian p. 84 Published by the Young Mens' Bible Society of New-York ... M'Elrath & Bangs, printers unknown
1808354112Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken 1808. First edition. 512; 490; 444; 472pp. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full black morocco gil likely bound by Jane Aitken minor wear at joints one spine splitting but holding. First edition. 512; 490; 444; 472pp. 4 vols. 8vo. "Charles Thomson 1729-1824 made the first translation of the Septuagint into the English language and the first English translation of the New Testament in the western hemisphere. Thomson spent twenty years in making the translation. The books called Apocrypha which are included in the canon of the Greek Old Testament but not in the Hebrew were omitted in his translation. After copying the manuscript four times he had it published at Philadelphia by Jane Aitken the first woman to print any part of the Holy Scriptures in America and the daughter of the printer Robert Aitken. It is of interest that the name 'Cha. Thomson' appears as the signer of the Congressional resolution in the front of the 1782 Aiken Bible" Hills.<br /> <br /> Charles Thomson emigrated to America from his native Ireland in 1739. On recommendation of Benjamin Franklin he served as a tutor at the College of Pennsylvania later the University of Pennsylvania. He later left teaching for business in which he prospered. "Because of his reputation for fairness and integrity he was chosen by the Indians to keep their record of proceedings at the treaty of Easton 1757 and in the following year he was adopted into the Delaware tribe with a name meaning `man who tells the truth'" DAB. He was an early and ardent supporter of the Revolution and was unanimously elected Secretary to the Continental Congress serving in that post from 1774 to 1789. Thomson "was the very man in Philadelphia with whom John Adams busily probing the minds of all and sundry on the vital questions involved would wish to have as he did have 'much conversation.' 'This Charles Thomson' Adams wrote 'is the Sam Adams of Philadelphia the life of the cause of liberty they say.'" DAB. Thomson resigned his post when he was offered no part in Washington's inauguration ceremonies nor any post in the new administration. He devoted the next twenty years to his monumental translation.<br /> <br /> Jane Aitken continued her father Robert's business after his death in 1802. "She had in 1810 a printing house in Philadelphia. She obtained much reputation by the productions which issued from her press" Thomas. In addition to being one of the first American female printers Jane Aitken was also a bookseller bookbinder businesswoman and employer. The typeface Aitken used for the Thomson Bible was an attractive and utilitarian type developed in 1796 by two Scotsmen Binney and Ronaldson at their Philadelphia type foundry. The Thomson Bible is considered her greatest printing achievement and the first Bible printed by a woman in America.<br /> <br /> This set in a very unusual American full morocco gilt binding likely bound by Aitken's shop. See Spawn Willman and Carol Spawn "The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth-Century Bindery and Its Tools" in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 57 no. 4 1963 pp. 422-37. Darlow & Moule 1005; Herbert 1514; Rumball-Petre 184; O'Callaghan 1808.2; Wright p.113; Hills 153; Thomas History of Printing in America p.402 Printed by Jane Aitken unknown
1809375196Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1809. Text in two columns. 816pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf red morocco lettering piece minor staining. Minor foxing early owner's inscription on the endpaper. Text in two columns. 816pp. 12mo. First edition of the first Bible printed in Connecticut. An October 18 1809 advertisement in the Connecticut Courant reads: "Hudson and Goodwin have the satisfaction to announce to the public that they have this day completed their first edition of the School Bible. The type is entirely new imported at heavy expense . and the paper is so good a quality that it is asserted with confidence to be the best of the kind offered for sale in this country."<br /> <br /> "This is supposed to be the earliest edition of the Bible printed in Connecticut. "It was set up in Nonpareil smaIl 12mo making I believe 68 forms 34 sheets put in chases corrected and shipped from the foundry of Wilson and Sons Glasgow to Hudson and Goodwin at a cost as I have understood of 6000 crowns. The type was sold for old metal about the year 1837" O'Callaghan. Shaw 16998; Hills 168; O'Callaghan 1809.6 Hudson and Goodwin unknown
1811320096Philadelphia: Mathew Carey No. 122 Market-Street 1811. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. Contemporary calf. Worn upper cover nearly detached. Foxing. Early inked stamp of P.A. Johnson Bookseller & Stationer Morristown N.J. on front pastedown and with ownership inscription on ffep: "Henry Mingle's Bible bought of Peter A. Johnson in Morristown October 28 1812. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. In 1804 Carey first published a new edition of the quarto Bible from standing type and including the Apocrypha. A consummate promoter and bookseller Carey re-issued the Bible on a variety of paper stocks and with various numbers of engraved maps and plates over the next decade. An 1809 advertisement listed 34 variations of his "Family Bible" priced between $3.50 and $12 however none of those listed include more than 30 engraved maps and plates suggesting this issue with 50 engraved maps and plates and including the Old Testament New Testament Psalms Apocrypha and Brown's Concordance to be among the most deluxe version yet issued by Carey. We find no record of Carey's quarto bible with 50 plates as here.<br /> <br /> With an early Morristown New Jersey bookseller stamp and provenance to the Mingle family of Warren County New Jersey. Hills 174; O'Callaghan 1810.1. See Clarkin 622 8 plates and 623 1 map 10 plates; this issue not recorded Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market-Street unknown
1814313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown
181816976Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828 and later 'Dan Smith His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. <br /> <p><br /> In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso listing the births of members of the McNees family in the late nineteenth century. <br /> <p><br /> This is the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny River and the first Bible in English printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. <br /> <p><br /> Note: this is a well used copy but in good condition. Rare. <br /> <p><br /> Hills 349; Not in Darlow and Moule<br /> <p>. Cramer and Spear unknown
184233603Cambridge: printed for the British anf Foreign Bible Society 1842. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" x 5/8". Brown cloth blind-stamped panel binding gilt lettered spine a.e.g. Owners' inscriptions. Some minor rubbing to extremities else fine. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" x 5/8". <br/><br/> printed for the British anf Foreign Bible Society hardcover
1814372931Philadelphia: Cura et Impensis Thomae Dobson edita ex aedibus Lapideis. Typis Gulielmi Fry 1814. First American edition. Text in Hebrew with notes in Latin. 6 296; 2 312 leaves. Half titles present in each volume. Uncut. 2 vols. 8vo. Original blue paper boards rebacked with plain paper. Provenance: Hugh Blair Grigsby booklabels. In a blue cloth folding box. First American edition. Text in Hebrew with notes in Latin. 6 296; 2 312 leaves. Half titles present in each volume. Uncut. 2 vols. 8vo. The first complete Hebrew Bible printed in America. Hebrew type was first used in the North American colonies in the Bay Psalm Book printed in 1640 in Cambridge. Over the next ninety-five years Hebrew type appeared in a handful of American imprints usually in brief examples of single words or short sentences. Paucity of appropriate type would continue to be a problem over the years that followed. The first Jewish Psalter was finally published in 1809 followed by this complete Bible five years later. "In 1812 Mr. Horwitz had proposed the publication of this edition of the Hebrew Bible the first proposal of the kind in the United States; early in 1813 be transferred his right and list of subscribers to Mr. Thos. Dobson who published soon afterwards the 1st volume" O'Callaghan. The title page indicates that this work is a reprinting of the second edition of the Joseph Athias Bible edited by Leusden with Latin notes by Everardo Van der Hought and that the Hebrew is printed without vowels. An important piece of American printing and of Jewish Americana. Darlow and Moule 5168a; Goldman 4; Rosenbach 171; Shaw and Shoemaker 30857; Singerman 236; M. Vaxer "The First Hebrew Bible Printed in America" Journal of Jewish Bib. 1940 vol. 2 pp. 20-26 Cura et Impensis Thomae Dobson edita ex aedibus Lapideis. Typis Gulielmi Fry unknown
