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18058610New York: Ronalds & Loudon pr. by Thomas Kirk 1805. 12mo. 335 1 pp. lacking pp.5-8. <br><br>Church of Scotland-approved rendition of the Psalms. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 8008. Contemporary sheep covers framed in single gilt roll; binding rubbed and worn with leather partially lost over spine joints cracked and covers all but separated. Front hinge reinforced. Front pastedown and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscriptions. Pages age-toned with some instances of foxing; lacking pp. 5-8. Ronalds & Loudon (pr. by Thomas Kirk) hardcover books
181819770New York: G. Long 1818. 16mo 11.4 cm 4.5". 618 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 43328. Contemporary sheep with modest gilt tooling on covers spine ornately gilt with gilt-stamped leather label. Leather rubbed and slightly creased over spine with a few black stains on covers otherwise clean. Some foxing and brown spotting throught. A little loss of paper on right edge of pp. 599602 but no loss of text. Several page corners folded. G. Long hardcover books
17727109Edinburgh: J. Robertson 1772. 8vo. 1 f. 346 pp. <br><br>Scarce first edition of this private translation a classical Latin paraphrase of the psalms in dactylic hexameters by George Buchanan 150682 with an accompanying Latin prose version and an English translation by Andrew Waddel. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T124032; not in Darlow & Moule. Ex-library: library buckram covers pressure-stamped spine with gilt title and paper shelf label. Fine chipping at head and foot of spine. Front pastedown with bookplate; rear free endpaper with charge pocket. Hinges inside open but sewing holding. Front free endpaper detached. Interior rubber-stamps including one on title-page. Lightly age-toned throughout. Some dog ears a few obscuring page number. Inked ownership inscription on title-page. J. Robertson hardcover books
183519369New York: Swords Stanford & Co 1835. 12mo 19 cm 7.5". 130 2 blank pp. lacking pp. 1/2. with Hymns of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Swords Stanford & Co. 1837. 12mo. 132 pp. <br><br>Psalms and hymns in two stereotype editions from a New York publisher who specialized in Protestant works. The texts are given here without music; each portion has a table of first lines with the Psalms providing an index of appropriate selections for particular subjects and occasions.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco covers framed in gilt roll spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership initials of William R. Whittingham G.R.W. the "William" being rendered as "Guillelmus" for his love of Latin fourth Episcopal Bishop of Baltimore; stamp of an Episcopal Diocesan lending library. Binding as above; front cover detached back joint starting from top head of spine chipped with binding showing minor darkening and scuffing overall. Free endpapers excised. Front pastedown with rubber-stamp as above no other institutional markings; first text page with inked ownership inscription as above dated 1864. Title-page of first work lacking. Pages slightly age-toned some creased; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Small emphasis marks to index of Hymns with an additional manuscript entry in the table of first lines. Swords, Stanford & Co unknown books
155539566Basileae: per Ioannem Oporinum colophon: 1555. 8vo 15.9 cm 6.25". 16 341 7 pp. <br><br>Sole edition of these Greek paraphrased psalms done by Paul Dolscius while he was serving as a rector in Halle. Melanchthon was a great supporter of Dolscius 152689 whose translation work was so proficient that at one point his authorial byline on the Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession was assumed to be merely a pseudonym for the great reformer himself.<br>Â Â Â Â The text here is simply printed with the Latin preface in roman and the main text in Greek using single columns; a 5-line decorative initial and a 7-line inhabited one showing two kings in profile complete the work. This is now an uncommon edition with searches of Worldcat COPAC USTC and NUC Pre-1956 revealing only three U.S. institutions reporting ownership.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: An inked ownership stamp of notable 19th-century English bibliomaniac Richard Heber 17741833 reading "Bibliotheca Heberiana" appears on the front free endpaper; Thomas Frognall Dibdin added this stamp to select rare books in Heber's collection following the collector's death. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bibliotheca Palatina F5048/F5049; VD16 B3122; USTC 626665. Not in Adams; not in Darlow & Moule. On Dolscius see: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie online. 19th-century half calf and paste papercovered boards spine with gilt rolls and green leather gilt title-label all edges stained blue; rubbed slight loss of leather on front joint outside and corners a few small spots and leather repairs isolated glue action to endpapers. Light age-toning with occasional slivers of marginal staining possibly thanks to the blue edge stain one interior tear touching letters and two marginal spots. Provenance indicia as above small round paper shelflabel on spine a few bibliographical notes pencilled on endpapers. => A skillfully produced work with a pleasing provenance. per Ioannem Oporinum hardcover books
18996882Freiburg Leipzig und Tuebingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebel 1899. 8vo. XXVIII 222 pp. 1 f. <br><br>Quarter cloth over marbled paper; spine with gilt title and gilt at head and foot; cloth on front cover with gilt stamp. Edges of covers rubbed with some loss spine cloth split. Ex-library: bookplate and rubber-stamp on front pastedown charge pocket on rear pastedown. Pencilled ownership inscription on front pastedown. Interior lightly age-toned. All edges marbled. Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebel) hardcover books
180323697Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 pp. 1 subscriber's list f. <br><br>Translated by Thomas Williams. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Publisher's sheep scuffed and rubbed from age; respined with brown cloth tape and original label laid back on. Two leaves one the half-title separated from spine but present; ex-library with attractive old bookplate old stamp to title-page and half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Worth having. William W. Woodward hardcover books
180327245Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 2 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Thomas William's translation and commentary: very representative of the linguistic hermeneutical and classical scholarship of its time. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Recent quarter calf and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and three others institutionally pressure-stamped; preface with rubber-stamped numeral and inked annotation. All edges some margins and first and last few leaves darkened by smoke exposure. William W. Woodward hardcover books
194735403New York: The Scribe Archway Press 1947. Small 8vo 22.4 cm; 8.75". 41 pp. 1 plate. <br><br>Handsome edition based on a calligraphic text by W.A. Dwiggins expressly for this edition. With decorations by WAD as well. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Agner Books of WAD 47.08. Publisher's gray cloth. Without the slilpcase. Very good. The Scribe, Archway Press hardcover books
191341439in Arabic: Beirut: The American Printing Press 1913. 8vo 18.5 cm 7.5" 920 295 pp. <br><br>The Van Dyck translation of the Bible into Arabic first appeared in 1865 and remained the standard version used by Arabs for a century. This edition from the American Printing Press is => an all-Arabic production with the only English appearing in it being a small-print line "Bible Third Font 282" on the title-page at "rear".<br>Â Â Â Â Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck 181895 was born at Kinderhook NY and educated at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia receiving his M.D. in 1839. The following year the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent him to Lebanon as a medical missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church and he remained in the Middle East for the rest of his life with only an occasional trip to the U.S.<br>Â Â Â Â Van Dyck became fluent in Arabic wrote extensively in that language and taught medicine and other subjects: "He was professor of pathology and internal medicine in the medical school of the newly founded Syrian Protestant College which later became the American University of Beirut. He also taught astronomy in its literary section directed its observatory and meteorological station as well as the mission press and edited its weekly journal al-Nashran. He wrote Arabic textbooks on chemistry internal medicine physical diagnosis and astronomy publishing some of them at his own expense" Wikipedia.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat records at least three editions of the Arabic Bible from the American Printing Press in 1913 each with a different pagination. Publisher's brown cloth spine stamped in gilt with title in Arabic and with blind stamping to covers and spine; some chipping to cloth around spine and at edges. Printed on very thin paper occasionally showing a short tear or a crease but clean and untattered. A very good copy. The American Printing Press hardcover books
1862321072New York: American Bible Society 1862. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blindstamped leather. Rubbed lower board and last leaf detached. Good. Text in Armenian. New Testament with separate title page. 879 5 274 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An early example of Armenian printing in America. The Armenian Bible was first printed in New York in 1859. "The translation of the OT begun . by H.G.O. Dwight and others . was completed by Elias Riggs. The NT is the version by J. Zohrab revised by J.B. Adger in 1841-2" Darlow & Moule 1851. OCLC: 39994158 Yale American Bible Society unknown books
1583314886London: Christopher Barker 1583. New Testament title within elaborate border with woodcut map on verso large woodcut of Jerusalem and temple on f 402 woodcut of Ezekial's vision on ff 362 a few other woodcuts and decorative initials throughout. 12 437 2 438-532 1 137 6 leaves. Black letter text printed in two columns with shoulder notes separate title pages for Psalms Apocrypha and N.T. calendar printed in red and black prelims from a slightly shorter copy. Large folio 41 x 26.5 cm. Contemporary calf rebacked and remargined large centerpiece to upper cover. Lacking 10 leaves of preliminaries including general title and full page engraving of Adam and Eve in the garden all in inexpert facsimile and lacking final three leaves of tables and final leaf "A perfite supputation" including colophon marginal loss to several prelims burnholes to margin of ff 328-339 in O.T. with resulting loss of text inexpertly restored in manuscript small burnhole ff 97-99 N.T. but overall internally clean and bright restoration to binding edges worn. New Testament title within elaborate border with woodcut map on verso large woodcut of Jerusalem and temple on f 402 woodcut of Ezekial's vision on ff 362 a few other woodcuts and decorative initials throughout. 12 437 2 438-532 1 137 6 leaves. Black letter text printed in two columns with shoulder notes separate title pages for Psalms Apocrypha and N.T. calendar printed in red and black prelims from a slightly shorter copy. Large folio 41 x 26.5 cm. Folio Barker Bible Black Letter Geneva Edition. A magnificent folio Geneva bible printed in black letter by Christopher Barker. As often this copy lacks several preliminary and terminal leaves but the scriptures are complete. Woodcut illustrations include Solomon's temple a map situating the garden of Eden another detailing the Israelites' forty years wandering in the desert a large illustration of the Vision of Ezekiel a nearly full-page woodcut of the temple and city of Jerusalem restored and a map of the holy land on the verso of the New Testament title-page. Darlow and Moule 135; Herbert 178. Provenance: Ernest Bryan Gipps bookplate Christopher Barker unknown books
18234731Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless 1823. 4to 29.5 cm 11.5". 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-4 6 5-570 frontis. 2 573-748 749-770 18 54 2 blank pp.; 10 plts. including 2 frontispieces and 8 full-page engravings. <br><br>Large thick quarto Bible. "Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page. No date stated. O'Callaghan says that "The first edition of this Bible was printed in 1823. The stereotype plates of the Old Testament were cast by Elihu White of New York; those of the New by B. & J. Collins. Kimber and Sharpless continued the publication of large and numerous editions until 1844 when they sold the plates to Jasper Harding."<br>Â Â Â Â Contents include general title-page a note to the reader order of books contents of the Old and New Testaments Old Testament New Testament title-page New Testament Index and Tables Psalms of David and "A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments." by John Brown. With two frontispieces and 8 additional full-page historical engravings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 20th century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Ownership inscription dated 1889 on blank side of first frontispiece. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 460; O'Callaghan 161-162; Shaw & Shoemaker 11824. Contemporary sheep with four raised bands accented in gilt and forming compartments. The second compartment bears a red morocco label and "Holy Bible" stamped on it in gilt. Binding a bit rubbed front joint opening a bit about 1" at top. Foxed as expectable. Long tear to pp. 401-402 without loss of text but definitely affecting it. Evidence of two leaves of family records between the Old and New Testaments having been torn out. Most of the pages of John Brown's Concordance are waterstained in margins. Red silk bookmark laid in. Complete. Kimber and Sharpless hardcover books
18334703Brattleboro VT: Peck & Wood 1833. 4to 29 cm 11.25". Frontis. 4 1 blank 5-527 1 78 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-168 56 9 5 2 blank pp.; 8 plts. <br><br>Large thick quarto. "Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page; two frontispieces and six additional full-page wood engravings by A. Anderson. Bound in between the New Testament and Index is the John Brown Concordance "stereotyped by B. & J. Collins" whose title-page bears no place or date; it is likely that this is the Collins printing of the Concordance often found bound into Bibles of this period.<br>Â Â Â Â This Bible includes the Old Testament 527 pp. Apocrypha 78 pp. New Testament 168 pp. John Brown's Concordance 56 pp. an index 9 pp. tables 3 pp. and "An Account of the Lives Sufferings and Martyrdom of the Apostles and Evangelists" 2 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 20th-century book label of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Hills; not in O'Callaghan. Contemporary full sheep with four raised bands on the spine and "Holy Bible" gilt-stamped on a tan morocco spine label. Binding rubbed joints starting. First two leaves following the title-page and pp. 433-436 loosening. Pages 47-48 of the New Testament chipped in outer margin and p. 9 of the index torn all without loss of text. Pages foxed as expectable. Complete. Peck & Wood hardcover books
183715822Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1837. 4to 28 cm 11". Frontis. 768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â The New Testament here has a separate title-page and the volume is llustrated with 10 wood engraved plates including two frontispieces. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 972. Contemporary sheep gilt-lettered on the spine. Binding rubbed with abrasions along edges and joints spine pulled at head. Ex-library with white-lettered shelf number on spine. Light foxing. One plate with tear from bottom edge not intruding upon illustration. Small hole to one leaf with loss of several letters of marginal notes. H. & E. Phinney unknown books
18417995Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1841. 4to 28.7 cm 11.3". Frontis. 576 4 99 3 579768 pp.; 10 plts. <br><br>One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York.<br>Â Â Â Â This edition has the Apocrypha added and 11 woodcut plates in total; the New Testament has a separate title-page. The family record leaves here are mostly unused but bear a few names with dates from 1845 through 1899.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of 20th-century collector Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills English Bible in America 1100. Binding see: Wolf From Gothic Windows to Peacocks 126. Contemporary goat embossed in arabesque patterns over a diapered background with central diamond-shaped medallion spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and compartments gilt extra; worn and abraded with portion of front cover faded leather rubbed over joints and extremities spine leather cracking. Hinges tender. Front free endpaper lacking frontispiece recto used for pencilled list of names one plate with inked notation on verso and another with pencilled ones. One other plate with pencilled notes in margins and pencil and ink markings throughout text. Some leaves browned. H. & E. Phinney hardcover books
183122266Oxford: Pr. at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood & Co. 1831. 24mo. 528 ff. <br><br>A lovely gift Bible presented in the 19th century to one James Henry Newman by five members of his immediate family.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary embossed rich cordovan-colored morocco cathedral binding featuring inter alii the Holy Ghost in Pentacostal doveform the Agnus Dei and stained/leaded glass "windows" both pointed and rosette. Spine additionally with gilt-stamped title; turn-ins with blind-roll design. All edges brightly gilt. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Herbert. Binding as above in beautiful condition. First front fly-leaf with early inked familial gift inscription including an explanation of one brother's having opted out of the group present!; second front fly-leaf with inked dedicatory poem. Pr. at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood & Co. unknown books
200835166Litchfield Park AZ: Bible Museum 2008. Folio. Unpaginated. <br><br>A 400th anniversary edition of the King James Bible being an accurate complete full-size facsimile of the "Great He" Bible. This copy is one of 1000 designated "The Subscriber's" version with => two original leaves from the 1611 printing one from the Old Testament leaf Fff2 Psalms 88:6 through 90:5 and one from the New leaf K3 John 8:39 through 9:41. Both leaves are in excellent condition.<br>Â Â Â Â This book is very large and extremely heavy and will require considerable extra shipping charges. Bound in full brown leather and in an open-back slipcase. As new. Bible Museum hardcover books
1634022062London: Robert Barker and Assigns John Bill 1634. Quarto in 8s. 2 34pp. genealogies 3pp. dedication 9 to the reader 1pp. order of books pp. 1-582 Old Testament Apocrypha ends on p. 718; New Testament ends on p. 904; colophon on p. 904. Black letter in double columns. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border. Both title pages state translated out of "Original Greek" with "darknesse" instead of "darkenesse" in Genesis 1:4 undated genealogies bound in at front prior to title page with the Apocrypha without map. Uniquely bound in earlier 19th century polished calf over beveled wooden boards ornately tooled in blind and gilt inner gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges red margins trimmed close just entering some headlines or side notes some light marginal soiling very minor worming in blank lower margins of a few leaves in front and middle of book. A very attractive copy from the library of William Otter Gibbs with his bookplate: Gibbs was a 2nd Lieut. 7th Hussars February and Lieut. November 1900. In the South African Boer War served 1901-2 with 7th Hussars in operations in Cape Colony Orange River Colony and Transvaal; awarded Queen's Medal with five clasps. Captain Ap. 1907. Seconded to be Brigade Major of Eastern Mounted Brigade Territorial March 1913-March 1916. In the Great War served in Gallipoli Anzac October-December 1915: in Egypt December 1915-October 1916 Staff Officer Western Defense Force; Brigade Major Coastal Area: in France October-December 1917 as Major 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regt.; in Mesopotamia Ap. 1918-Ap. 1919 with 7th Hussars and in command of them from September 1918. Wounded at Shergat nr. Mosul 28 October 1918. Awarded 1914-15 Star British War Medal Allies' Victory War Medal: Croix de Guerre avec palme: mentioned twice in dispatches 1916 and 1919. Lieut.-Colonel 1919 and in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers from 1920. One of the Exons of the King's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard from 1926. From his family genealogy Herbert 487-b. Robert Barker and Assigns John Bill unknown books
183333830New Haven: Durrie & Peck; Sold by Hezekiah Howe & Co. and by N. & J. White 1833. 8vo 23 cm; 9". xvi 907 pp. <br><br>First edition of the Bible in English Authorized Version tailored for American readers by Noah Webster 17581843. "His purpose was to remove obsolete words and those offensive to delicacy" Rumball-Petre Webster himself further stipulating "To avoid giving offense to any denomination of christian sic I have not knowingly made any alteration to the passages of the present version on which the different denominations rely for the support of their peculiar tenets" Preface p. iv. Webster further explains that the purpose of his revisions is to make the language clearer and purer so as to not "divert the mind from the matter to the language of the scriptures and thus in a degree frustrate the purpose of giving instruction" Preface p. xvi.<br>Â Â Â Â Webster considered his work on the revision of the Bible more important than that on the dictionary and was sorely disappointed at the Bible's poor reception among all levels of readers.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 19th-century ownership signatures of Luther P. Hubbard undated and R.T. Hall 1894; after ca. 1954 in The Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 1793; Hills 826; Rumball-Petre 197. Publisher's sheep spine dry and tending to flake; front board once detached and resecured with a cloth tape repair at the hinge inside. Foxing as usual. Priced to encourage better repair to its binding this is a complete sound copy. Durrie & Peck; Sold by Hezekiah Howe & Co., and by N. & J. White hardcover books
195837710Washington D.C.: Judd & Detweiler 1958. First edition. Cloth. Owner's bookplate else a fine copy. Unpaged. 45 pp. illus. Illus. with 1 b/w engraving and 8 drawings. Tall 4to. Lester Douglas designer and dir. Inscribed by the designer; to wood engraver John De Pol with his bookplate; includes his Christmas card and a National Press Club invitation. Judd & Detweiler hardcover books
1961024906Paris: Les Editions Du CERF 1961. Traduites par R. Leconte 2e édition revue. 148 3p. original stiff wrappers ex libris La Sainte Bible. Les Editions Du CERF unknown books
183235192New York: Imprime avec des planches solides aux frais de La Societe Biblique Americaine. par Daniel Fanshaw 1832. 12mo. 789 1 blank 207 3 blank pp. <br><br>Stated third edition. Prepared for use among Catholic French Canadians and Catholic French emigrés in the U.S. Contemporary sheep spine with raised bands forming five compartments and gilt ruling above and below each band. One compartment bears a black leather label with "Sainte Bible" gilt-stamped on it. Binding rubbed especially over joints and edges. Some foxing pages mostly clean. Call number on spine bookplate on front pastedown but no library markings in text. Very good condition. Imprime avec des planches solides aux frais de La Societe Biblique Americaine. par Daniel Fanshaw hardcover books
15042666New York: Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees pour la Société Biblique Americaine D. Fanshaw Imprimeur 183940. 8vo. 819 1 blank pp. 261 1 blank pp. <br><br>Only the second edition in the U.S. of the Martin edition of the French Bible. Prior to 1835 the American Bible Society favored using the text of the 1805 French Bible.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: This copy is exquisitely bound in full black leather in good imitation of morocco elaborately stamped in gold on the covers forming a five-element frame or border with gilt tooling on the board edges and with gilt inner dentelles. The spine has slightly raised bands and elaborate gold stamping in its compartments. => This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: The name "Sarah B. Leverett" is lettered in gilt on the front cover and the same name is given in precise gothic calligraphy on the front free endpaper. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto dulling outermost elements of gilt border only on front cover just at those corners. Evidence to endpapers of the volume's once having been sewn into a chemise or wrapper; old notes just discernable not really readable in a minute hand on front free endpaper i.e. "behind" Sarah's name. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages only. => The whole very attractive and well preserved. Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees, pour la Société Biblique Americaine, D. Fanshaw, Imprimeur hardcover books
19656075Frankfurt am Main: Ars librorum Gotthard de Beauclair 1965. #338 of 475 copies signed by the artist. 41 cm; 13 leaves including nine full-page color woodcuts by Felix Hoffmann printed from original blocks. Bound in pictorial boards in cloth-bound slipcase. About fine. Ars librorum Gotthard de Beauclair hardcover books