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1631019267Oxford: William Turner Printer 1631. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 319 pages of text followed by i colophon and preceded by two engravings. Original blind-ruled calf without any spine labeling. The front hinge has been repaired and an antique front flyleaf has been added. The engraved title page has minor browning/toning and soiling as does the engraved armorial dedication page. The title page is apparently the only 17th Century publication containing a portrait of the first Stuart King. On the title page King James faces the reader while King David is holding a harp; engraved by William Marshall active ca. 1617-1649. The title page and final page also has minor soiling. The text except for a small number of tiny spots of soiling remains clean and unmarked. Measures 55/8 inches height. First edition. William Turner, Printer Hardcover books
182327078London: United Bible Societies 1823. 4to. 705 360 pp. <br><br>Peshitta version in Jacobite script: Old Testament Apocrypha and New Testament. The text is vocalized. The editor was Samuel Lee 17831852. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 8986. Recent library brown buckram slightly darkened patch to lower spine; gilt title at top and two gilt rules. Old seminary library pressure-stamp to title-page two additional light rubber-stamps pencilling on verso of title. Clean neat and strong. United Bible Societies hardcover books
1811WRCLIT53949New York: Printed for and Sold by William Falconer et al 1811. xx291pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt label. First New York edition with a special Preface by Hardie for this edition. Scattered tanning a few minor spots to binding but a very good copy. First published in Philadelphia in 1795 and reprinted there in following years. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 22380. Printed for, and Sold by William Falconer [et al] unknown books
1822WRCAM45605Hartford 1822. 369pp. Contemporary calf. Hinges cracked front board loosening. Binding worn. Later pencil notations on titlepage and front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Good. Chronologically this is the tenth Greek New Testament issued in America but it is the first to use the standard 1550 Stephanus text and it became widely used in America. "Wilson's New testament had an enormous circulation and is still in 1883 in use by very many Probably no edition was more commonly used by the mass of clergymen and students from 1823 to 1840" - Hall CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT IN AMERICA. SHOEMAKER 8035. unknown books
1811WRCAM41996Philadelphia 1811. Five volumes. Quarto. Contemporary calf spines gilt leather labels. Boards a bit scuffed corners lightly worn. Spines slightly scuffed and slightly chipped on some volumes. Light scattered foxing and toning. Information about the Storer family inscribed in the first volume. About very good. An impressive early American Bible in five large volumes styled "the second American edition from the second London edition improved and enlarged" presumably referring to Scott's annotations. With information inscribed regarding the Lear and Storer families of Portsmouth New Hampshire. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 22356. hardcover books
16116015Coloniae Allobrogum i.e. Geneva : Pierre de la Rovière 1611. Arias Montano was one of the principal editors of the great polyglot edition of the bible issued by the Plantin Press in 1571. He was denounced to the Inquisition for liberality. This edition of the Greek New Testament with Arias's extensive commentary is enclosed in an elaborate French binding flat back extensively tooled bearing the arms of the Abbé Genesse with his motto "Quae est expectatio mea nonne dominus" Psalm 38:8 What is my hope Is it not the lord. 16mo 13 cm; 2 volumes in one. 342 239 1 leaves. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek with interlinear Latin translation and commentary. Text and commentary within ruled borders. Elaborately gilt-tooled morocco armorial binding of l'abbé Genesse i.e. of Genoa with arms within a central lozenge enclosed in a motto and filigreed in all corners and within ruled borders on both boards; spine with filigreed central panel. Edges gilt. Pages generally toned with scattered foxing; light water stain on covers and in first 100 leaves. Binding reference: Tausin "Dictionnaire des devises ecclésiastiques" 165. Pierre de la Rovière hardcover books
1808FF181London:: Printed for W. Bent 1808. 1808. Small 8vo. iv viii 142; 144 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco all edges gilt for Sotheran London. Near fine. Provenance: Ownership signatures of Caroline Heathcote; L. Jackman. With a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of Westminster Abbey signed with his initials in the lower right corner of the painting. Probably painted ca. 1985/86. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 151-3. Printed for W. Bent, [1808]. unknown books
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
17001002658London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil 1700. First edition of this verse translation of the Song of Songs by Joseph Stennett 1663-1713 the first important Baptist hymnwriter in England: "Thy Lips my Spouse that move with skill / Drops like the Hony-comb distil. / Hony and Milk's beneath thy Tongue / Which feeds the Weak as well as strong." In his scholarly preface Stennett is quick to assure readers that the Hebrew text is not about sexual desire despite appearances: "some have denied that Solomon wrote it by Divine Inspiration; and make his Design to be only that of celebrating his Amours with Pharoah's Daughter or some other person." The passion of the bridegroom and the bride is to be understood however as a divine allegory of Christ's love for his church the same "mystical Espousals" found in the 45th Psalm which Stennett also translates here. Wing B2633AC ESTC R212810. We locate four institutional holdings in North America Emory Huntington NYPL and the American Baptist Historical Society; ESTC adds Harvard but that appears to be an error. A scarce early English translation of the most lyrical book of the Old Testament in a handsome contemporary binding. Small octavo measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt raised bands spine compartments decorated in gilt marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Old ink prices to verso of front free endpaper. Dampstaining to binder's flyleaves not affecting text light wear to binding joints starting at head of spine. Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil unknown books
D16616Geneva: Robert Estienne. Hardcover. Very Good. M.D.LVII 1556 -1557 Calend. Marti.. 3 volumes folio 385 x 242 mm. Pagination: I 480 leaves: 10 1188 1281 1; II 468 leaves: 1 287316 2 436; III 433 of 434 leaves lacking final blank: 1336 55 1 41pp. Collation: I: <br /><br />10 a-v8 x-z6 aa6 bb4 aaa-zzz8 aaaa-iiii8 kkkk6 llll8 mmmm-nnnn6; II: oooo-qqqq8 rrrr6 A10 B-Z8 AA-ZZ8 AAA-GGG8 HHH-III6; III: Aa-Zz8 AAa-TTt8 aa-gg8 Aa-Dd8 Ee9 of10. Volumes 1 and 3 with woodcut printers device of Robert Estienne on title page: an olive tree entwined with serpent and man with branches falling to ground around him and excerpt of Romans 11:20 NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME Be not high-minded but fear first word of title Biblia within woodcut cartouche frame with pastoral scene and grapevines. 20 woodcut text illustrations some full page based on the detailed descriptions of the Tabernacle Solomons Temple implements and architecture including a menorah fol. 75r vestments of the high priest f. 80r also Hirams laver f. 109v and Ezekiels Vision p. 275 several woodcut criblé initials throughout. Text in Latin and Hebrew. 17th-century Dutch vellum embossed with central lozenge design green silk ties; light marginal soiling or staining not severe some light intermittent browning underlining in first few leaves of first volume lacking final blank in third volume light edgewear on the extremities otherwise good and rather exemplary copies of this important publication. This copy formerly in the Shirburn Castle library of The Earl of Macclesfield their North Library bookplate marked '1.H.57'. In 2006 sold at Sothebys London 11 April 2006 lot 2312. <br/><br/>Fifth folio edition of the Latin Bible as Biblia Utriusque Testamenti published by Robert Estienne 15031559 in 1556 but with the original edition of the new Latin translation and commentary on the New Testament by Theodore Beza 15191605; notably this edition appeared contemporaneously with the printing of John Calvins Psalms Commentary. Theodore Beza a French Reformed Protestant theologian and Calvinist produced one Latin and four Greek-Latin editions of the New Testament in his lifetime working carefully through extant Greek manuscript sources. Estiennes great glossed Latin Bible of 1556/57 thus contained the translation of the Old Testament by Dominican philologist Sante Pagnini or Pagninus 14701536 first printed in 1528. Based on the Hebrew Pagninis text is in the center of each page and Bezas translation from the Greek is in smaller type to the side with commentary and alternate readings underneath. The Estienne-Beza Latin Bible with its copious notes and ties to Calvinist theology was of considerable importance in the early modern era. The 20 woodcut biblical illustrations were first used in an Estienne edition of the Bible printed in Paris in 1540. This copy beautifully bound in a Dutch vellum enjoyed placement in one of the finest libraries in Britain from around the mid-18th century. See also Renouard 'Estienne' p. 87; cf. Schreiber 'Estienne' 113. Robert Estienne hardcover books
1486WB16618Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 1486. Hardcover. Very Good. 1486- 1487. Part 3 of 4. Chancery folio 305 x 205mm. Pagination: 348 leaves near contemporary foliation in red ink throughout though mispaginated at 188 with some worming towards end obscuring numbers. Collation: AA-GG10 HH12 II-MM10 NN12 OO8; PP-TT10 VV-XX6 YY10 ZZ10 AAA-FFF10 GGG8 HHH8 III-MMM10 NNN8. Contents of Part 3: Isaiah AA10-HH12 Jeremiah II10-NN12 Book of Lamentations Jeremiah OO8 Baruch PP-PP7r Ezekiel PP7v-YY4 Daniel YY5-BBB8 Hosea CCC-DDD3 Joel DDD4-DDD8 Amos DDD9-EEE6 Obadiah EEE7-EEE8r Jonah EEE8v-FFF1 Micah FFF1v-FFF6r Nahum FFF6v-FFF8r Habakkuk FFF8v-GGG3r Zephaniah GGG3v-GGG7r Haggai GGG7v-HHH2r Zechariah HHH2v-III6r Malachi III6v-III10r and the Book of Maccabees III10v-NNN8r Blank NNN8v. Double columns of 56 lines of text surrounded by 72-73-line commentary plus headlines. 16 woodcuts of which 3 full-page illustrating Ezekiels Vision full-page on PP10r of Christ enthroned above Evangelist Symbols and Heavenly Wheel diagrams of Solomons Temple and different views of gates and enclosures of the Temple as mostly column miniatures but some full-page on QQ6 TT6r TT6v TT7r TT9v-TT10r UU1v XX2r XX5r YY1 and a full-page genealogical diagram for the Kings of Syria in the Book of Daniel BBB2v and half-page diagram for kings of KKK1v. Rubricated throughout with blue and red Lombard initials mostly over printed guide letters extra flourished in red ink over the headlines foliation paragraph and signature marks. Gothic Types: 9:165G headlines and headings 7:83G text. Near contemporary blind-stamped pigskin tooled with devices of stags and roses and other floreate ornaments with original brass clasps and leather straps contemporary manuscript leaves reused as binding waste visible in gutters; Front pastedown with added near contemporary manuscript index of 20 lines in Latin cursiva for contents books of prophets; small marginal tear on AA1-2 and with minor loss on HH7 occasional foxing not severe some intermittent marginal worming or browned leaves; pigskin rubbed and lacking bosses one leather strap torn but holding remnants of paper label on spine; otherwise a wonderful and solid incunable volume from an important set of glossed biblical commentaries. In the early 18th century this volume was in the collection of Gallus Winckelmann 16951757 a Benedictine monk and scholar active at Banz Abbey in Bavaria; his note on AA1: Coemit ad usum F. Gallus Winckellmann Professus Banthensis. The early-19th century signature of Daniel Kendig on front endpaper above perhaps an earlier inscription noting Lyras commentaries. Then in England the front pastedown with the mid-19th century bookplate of Joseph M. Lybrand rector of Saint Pauls Church Camden and America with the early-20th century labels of the Philadelphia Divinity School their bookplate and perforated stamp formerly collection number 4436. <br/><br/>This volume is part three of four in the second Koberger edition of the Bible printed in Nuremberg in 148687; parts one through three were undated with the fourth part dated 3 December 1487. This second edition was preceded by bible set printed by Anton Koberger in 1485. It was a monumental production incorporating the biblical commentary of medieval Franciscan scholar Nicholas de Lyra 12701349 with the additions of Paul of Burgos ca. 13511435 and responses to the latter by Matthias Doering d. 1469 as well as the commentary of William the Breton ca. 11651225 on the Prologues of Jerome. Part 3 of the set contained the books of the Major and Minor Prophets along with the books of the Lamentations and Maccabees. Nicholas de Lyras biblical gloss or Postilla encouraged much scholarly discourse throughout the Middle Ages and was frequently reprinted into the 16th century. This edition includes the famous woodcut of Ezekiels Vision and the various views and implements of Solomons Temple which were first printed by Koberger in 1481 with the complete commentary. This copy in an early German binding has a monastic provenance at Banz Abbey. ISTC ib00614000. Anton Koberger hardcover books
186720121Zurich: Leo Worl 1867. Large square folio. 26 17 pp. 17 facsim. part col. <br><br>Facsimile with scholarly study and apparatus of the block book in the library of gymnasium at Grossherzogl in Konstanz Germany. The facsimile is in color. The first edition a second appearing in 1892. 19th-century half brown morocco abraded. Ex-library with call number on spine pressure stamps on title-page and some library pencilling. Else a good copy. Leo Worl unknown books
1567WB16250Lyon: Claude de Huchin Apud Ioannem Frellonium Jean Frellon 1567. Hardcover. Good. MDLXVII 1567. 8vo 165 x 110mm. Pagination: 9 499 25 leaves 9 leaves of plates final printers leaf Mispaginations as usual: leaf 204 misnumbered as leaf 195; leaf 402 wanting; leaf 468 misnumbered as leaf 470; leaf 470 misnumbered as leaf 472 and this misnumbering continues to end. Signatures: Ø8 a8 1 - z8 24 - aa8 - zz8 24 - A8 - S8 18 ; 536 leaves forming 1072 pages Regularly in 67 Quires one unfoliated collating with the only copy located - the Universitatsbibliothek at Heidelberg Copy: 1 8 499 24 4 and with 10 of 10 presumed folding plates: maps and charts the Heidelberg Copy has 7 folding plates noted - probably three wanting. 34 wood engravings; 10 presumably of ten folding plates maps and charts; decorative initial capitals at each Book; two xylographic printers marks Frellons of a butterfly with its wings caught by the claws of a crab with motto MATURA on the title leaf and Huchins with Psalm verse 34 on the ultimate blank. Illustrations include the Jewish Temple implements including menorah and tabernacles and one for Noahs flood. Two folding maps of ancient Eden and surroundings and close up view of Israel and Canaan folding tables for the chronology in the book of Genesis bloodlines in Leviticus ancient kings in book of Maccabees Roman Emperors of the Jewish people backed in cloth the genealogy of Christ and the feast days according to scripture. Text printed in double columns. Later 3/4 tan calf edges stained red marbled endpapers; front board detached. Final verso inscribed in a 17th-century hand Ralph Weld his booke wittness Joseph Weld. Title inscribed by Christopher Harvey 15971663 Vicar of Clifton in the county of Warwick a later note mentions he was the editor. Later bookplate partly removed of Dr. Herman Blum historian of Philadelphia who established the The Blumhaven Library for his valuable collection. <br/><br/>Fifth edition of the Jean Frellon Latin Bible printed by Claude de Huchin in Lyon in 1567 immediately following an edition made the previous year; though it seems Claude de Huchin produced just these two editions for Jean Frellon. Claude de Huchin produced a Biblia Sacra for Antoine Vincent also in the year 1567 while Jean Frellon issued a sixth edition in 1568 seemingly on his own. This fifth Frellon edition resembles the former editions but has maps and other illustrations which were not in previous versions. As early as 1553 woodcut illustrations adorned Frellons editions of the New Testament. This is a rare edition of the Biblia Sacra oft overlooked and not found in the usual references. OCLC locates two copies at Universitatsbibliothek at Heidelberg OCLC no. 315584645 and Columbia University OCLC no. 83326666. The edition is recorded in French Books III & IV 2011: No. 57420. These bibles were all the rage in 16th century Lyonnais print houses; most editions issued one right after the other; for example there is an illustrated Latin Bible printed by Guliel Rovilium in Lyon also in 1567. [Claude de Huchin] Apud Ioannem Frellonium (Jean Frellon) hardcover books
1815810691815. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. AN ABRIDGED STATEMENT OF THE LEADING TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY; WITH A DIGEST OF THE VIEWS OF THE SOCIETY AND A NOTICE OF ITS CHIEF PATRONS. n.p. - London/n.p. 1815. Disbound from the Pamphleteer. pp. 269-280. 8vo. disbound. Pages in very good condition. Interesting list of translations of the Bible in foreign languages. a. unknown books
1856WRCAM45252New York 1856. iv717pp. Contemporary calf tooled in blind. Binding worn but still solid. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on preliminary leaves. Light foxing and dampstaining. Good. Second edition after the first of 1844. The text is entirely in Ojibwa Chippewa and was translated by the Rev. Henry Blatchford himself a native Ojibwa Indian. This copy has been inscribed on the front fly leaf evidently by an Ojibawa owner: "Peter Mawkiwina/ Bear Creek/ July 13 1863" PILLING ALGONQUIAN p.52. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 395. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS CHIPPEWA 34. unknown books
5603London: Various publishers Various dates. Leather. Good. Octavo 18 cm; three works in one volume. The Book of Common Prayer: Oxford: for Thomas Guy 1682. 168 of 169 leaves lacks printed title page. Engraved title page torn at upper right with some loss. Worm trails. Collation varies from ESTC copy pi A-U8 X4 lacking pi; engraved title page showing a cathedral nave; armorial tail piece with crest of Charles II. The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior.: London: printed by John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1679. 192 leaves. Collation varies from ESTC entry and from any of the copies collated in Darlowe and Moule viz: Aa8-Aaa8. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. London: The Company of Stationers 1684. 2 131 19 pages last blank. Bound in contemporary full calf tooled in blind with floral and geometric motives on both boards. Binding worn. Armorial bookplate of Robert Andrews 1703-1763 on lower pastedown. Armorial bookplate of William Long 1817-1886 on upper pastedown showing the Long crest and motto with handwritten inscription to Elizabeth Hare Long from her aunt Elizabeth Nott "grandaughter sic of Robert Andrews." Manuscript family record of births and deaths on front blanks and on inserted leaf in the hand of Robert Andrews 1703-1763 lawyer and property developer. "No builder or developer played a greater role in making the Grosvenors' Mayfair estate a byword for high-quality Georgian housing" according to DNB. Andrews became the attorney for many of Britain's aristocratic families including that of Frederick Prince of Wales. [Various publishers] hardcover books
2013192511Common English Bible 2013-08-01. Softcover. Good/Good. Soft alkaline cover is good with minor wear. Name date and school of former owner filled out on presentation page at front of book. Some light scratches to silver leaf page edges. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Packaged in a glossy board box. LO Common English Bible paperback books
N03D-01262Dawn Bible Students Association. Used - Good. Good condition. Dawn Bible Students Association unknown books
N03D-01261Dawn Bible Students Association. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Dawn Bible Students Association unknown books
200534251NY: McElderry Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0689869053 . Illustrated by the author. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . McElderry Books hardcover books
EPL05Paperback. Very Good. Two leaves containing full-page hand-colored woodcuts of Christs "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" and Scenes from the "Life of the Virgin" Joachim and Anna at Golden Gate Virgin Marys Birth Annunciation to Joachim and Joachims offerings rejected at the Altar taken from a Dutch Bible with text on verso 15th century. Size: 245 x 180mm each. <br/><br/> paperback books
1689EPL84Venice: Nicola Pezzano 1689. Paperback. Near Fine. Consisting of books of Isaiah Ezra Romans. Double column. Isaiah: pp. 529-528 ie. 538; Ezra: pp. 939-946; Romans: pp. 841-842 845-846. Double column. Size: 260 x 180mm. <br/><br/> Nicola Pezzano paperback books
1685256235Cambridge Mass: Samuel Green 1685. 1 vols. Small 4to 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. Outer margin trimmed close costing one letter. Some light toning very good. Mounted in card folder. 1 vols. Small 4to 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. Leaf from the Second Ediiton of Eliot's Indian Bible 1685. A leaf from the second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible printed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1685. A Massachusett Indian James Printer was one of the printers who worked on the project. Darlow & Moule 6738; Pilling Algonquin pp. 153 ff Samuel Green unknown books
1663WRCAM54459Cambridge Ma.: Samuel Green 1663. Single leaf 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Small quarto. Minor staining and toning. Good margins. Very good. A leaf from the first edition of the Eliot Indian Bible MAMUSSE WUNNEETUPANATAMWE UP- BIBLIUM GOD. printed in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1663. This was the first bible printed in North America and the first bible in an American Indian language. The printing of this bible was a monumental undertaking and it took more than two and a half years to set the type and print the work. <br> <br> A keen artifact from the "first Bible printed in the New World and the first example in history of the translation and printing of the entire Bible in a new language Massachuset as a means of evangelism" Pilling. EVANS 72. FIELD 495. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MASSACHUSETTS 1. CHURCH 580. DARLOW & MOULE 6737. PILLING ALGONQUIAN pp.139-52. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 142. SABIN 22154 22155. SIEBERT SALE 490. WING B2755. ESTC W38287. Samuel Green unknown books
1669KK6561Amsterdam: Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier 1669. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 parts in one volume. Elephant folio 385 x 260 x 130mm. Collation: first part: lxxxiv 732pp. paginated 366 3 folding maps; second part: iv 324pp. paginated 162; third part: iv 404pp. paginated 202 2 folding maps; fourth part: 140pp. paginated 70. Signatures: 4; a-e6; f8; A-Z6; Aa-Zz6; Aaa-Ppp6; A-Z6; Aa-Cc6; Dd8; 2; A-Z6; Aa-Kk6; Ll4; A-L6; M4. Engraved frontispiece 363 x 226mm signed N. Berchem Invent. & Matham sic Sculp depicting two female figures holding La Sainte Bible; together with two cherubs one holding the Ten Commandments and Le Saint Evangile; the latter with his foot on a skull. This spectacular frontispiece combines the works from three profound engravers of Dutch 17th century publishing activities. There are numerous engraved illustrations throughout the text plus five added maps and plans. Four of these Paradis terrestre facing p. 3 part 1 Voyages des Israelites facing p. 86 part 1 Pais de Canaan facing p. 1 part 3 Voyages des Apotres facing p. 68 part 3 were designed specifically for this edition by N. Berchem; the first three were executed by A. Blotelingh and the last mentioned by I. de Visscher. The fifth inserted engraving is an unsigned map of Jerusalem facing p. 247 part 1 plus the Temple and Temple furniture and was copied from the Polyglot Bible printed in London in 1655-57. see Chambers Bibliography of French Bibles II; Seventeenth Century French Language.p. 482 ff. Woodcut printers device on title of Minerva an owl and olive tree with proverbial legend Ne extra oleas Nothing but the olive. Contemporary vellum spliced or splitting in some areas otherwise holding up well a robust volume. <br/><br/>La Sainte Bible printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier of Amsterdam has been called without exception the most splendid French Bible ever printed Bibl. Sussexiana. However Brunet echoed by Graesse calls is très remarquable par sa belle éxecution typographique; mais la correction en a eté peu soignée et les notes ne sont pas estimées. A magnificent but not very correct edition. According to the catalogue of 1675 it was printed in four sizes of type Imperial France Real Veluws Real and Grand Mediaen. It was one of the few large-format productions of the Elzevier presses better known for their small Port-Royal New Testaments. The two printmakers who engraved Berchems designs for the Bible maps Abraham Blooteling 1640-1690 and Jan de Visscher 1632-1692 were highly respected artists who lived and worked in Amsterdam. These engravers must have been acquainted and had probably studied together in the workshop of Cornelis Visscher. Both most likely were selected or at least approved by Berchem as engravers of the map prints. Four of the five maps within the 1669 La Sainte Bible are ornamented with illustrations engraved from models by Berchem. Designs on the fifth map may also be by Berchem. Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier hardcover books
