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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
187423871New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 8vo. xxvi 2 633 pp. <br><br>The "rhythmical version" is by Tayler Lewis of Union College. "A commentary by Otto Zockler. Translated from the German with additions by Prof. L. J. Evans. Together with a general introduction to the poetical books by Philip Schaff. Publisher's black embossed cloth with decorative design on boards. Spine with extremities frayed and gilt-stamped title dimmed. Binding is shaken but in generally good condition. Ex-library: call number on binding bookplate on front pastedown. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. hardcover books
166534786Cantabrigiae: Excusum per Joannem Field 1665. 12mo 14 cm 5.5". 1 f. 19 1 755 i.e. 767 1 516 pp. without the initial blank. <br><br>The second English edition of the Septuagint. There are different issues: This a copy of the one with the third word of the Greek title readiing "Diathche" and not "Diathke" and with the printer's device showing the man holding the sun in his left hand. Thus this is Darlow and Moule issue "B." => Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of one of the issues of this edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Manuscript ownership inscription of John Ray dated 1716 on retained fly-leaf; ownership signature of Robert L. Wilson New York 1818 on title-page; gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson dated 1829. Later in the Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: American binding of dark blue goat richly gilt with wide floral border on covers and spine distinctively gilt using rules and floral roll. Board edges with a gilt roll; turn-ins gilt tooled. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson as above. Unsigned.<br>Â Â Â Â Barzillai Slosson may have been related to the lawyer of the same name who was active in Kent CT at the end of the 18th century and into the fourth decade of the 19th whose account books are in the Yale Law Library; perhaps the Barzillai who graduated from Columbia College in 1818 and later moved to Geneva NY where he was active and successful in business and civic affairs. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. ed. B2719. Darlow & Moule; 4702; ESTC R236848; Sowerby Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson 1473. Binding as above lightly rubbed. Pages closely cropped in the 19th-century rebinding and some initial or final letters touched or lost. Very good. Excusum per Joannem Field unknown books
150136730Doway: Laurence Kellam 160910. 4to I: 22.3 cm 8.75"; II: 21 cm 8.3". 2 vols. I: 2 1115 1 pp. 5 leaves supplied. II: 1124 2 errata pp. 5 leaves in facsimile. <br><br>First edition of the first Catholic Old Testament in English editio princeps of the Douai or Douay or Doway Old Testament half of what is commonly known as the DouaiRheims Bible. The New Testament first appeared at Rheims in 1582; at that time the Old Testament was said to be ready for printing but its actual publication was delayed until 1609 due to lack of funds. Both portions were translated from the Latin Vulgate mainly by Gregory Martin with the intensely controversial Old Testament notes done by Thomas Worthington under the supervision of Cardinal William Allen at Douai the center of English Catholicism in exile during Elizabeth's reimposition of Protestantism.<br>Â Â Â Â This translation is important for all not just Catholics as an enduringly influential milestone in Bible history. => One of the foundational works in any collection of Bibles and Testaments.<br>Â Â Â Â Evidence of Readership / Provenance: Vol. I front free endpaper with early inked inscription: "Cloister of Nazareth"; pastedown with inscription in a different hand reading "The holy Bible some pages cut out for modesty's sake thro' ignorance yt. each word hear in sic is sacred & too sacred for such as finds thmselves unfit to read it." Vol. II front pastedown inscribed "Men have many faults / Women have but two / Nothing wright thay say / Nothing good they doo" sic signed by the Rev. Folkins of Derbyshire dated MDCCCX; back pastedown with inked inscription of John Caldwell and pencilled inscription of Thomas R. Kilching. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 231; ESTC S101944; Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles 119; STC rev. ed. 2207. Vol. I: Contemporary vellum with yapp edges spine with early hand-inked title; vellum moderately dust-soiled and worn spine with remnants of shelving label. Vol. II: Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt double fillets spine with gilt rules; rubbed with small cracks in leather overall especially at joints and spine very unobtrusively rebacked. Inscriptions and annotations as above vol. II also with pencilled annotations on front pastedown and bookseller's small ticket on rear pastedown. Sometime after the "immodest" pages in Genesis were removed they were supplied from another copy tipped in so one can readily see what they were!; five lacking leaves in vol. II in appended historical table and index were supplied in facsimile. Occasional minor foxing and smudging; vol. II with waterstaining to some outer and lower edges edges of first and last few leaves slightly tattered. => A landmark Old Testament here in an intriguing copy. Laurence Kellam hardcover books
177410669Goettingae: Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck 1774. 4to 23 cm. 2 494 pp. <br><br>Signed presentation copy from the Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey Regius Professor of Hebrew Oxford University dated 1835. Edited by Simon de Magistris. Greek and Latin text printed in parallel columns. Illustrated with an engraving on p. 104 and engravings of Greek coins on p. 194. WorldCat locates only one copy of this edition in U.S. libraries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule but see 4760 for the 1773 edition and 4759 for the first edition. Contemporary plain wrappers paper over spine chipped and with lengthwise cracks; binding coming apart with final 14 pages separated. Gift inscription dated 1835 on verso of title-page. Bookplate of a theological seminary on inside of front cover. Some pages unopened. Foxed. Dog-eared. => Uncut mostly unopened copy. Recudi fecit vidua b. Abr. Vandenhoeck unknown books
166436974Hamburgi: Typis & impensis authoris 1664. 8vo 17.2 cm 6.75". 32 218 281604 pp. <br><br>First edition of Gilles Gutbier's acclaimed Syriac New Testament => produced at the author's own expense using types he cut himself. Gutbier 161767 a distinguished professor at Hamburg was universally recognized as one of the leading Orientalists of his era. His work on this New Testament was based on all of the previously published Syriac editions and on two unpublished manuscripts one of which had belonged to the emperor Constantine. Darlow and Moule note that Gutbier also includes the previously missing "five books the 'pericope de adulter' and the 'comma Johanneum.'"<br>Â Â Â Â This copy has the additional engraved title-page dated 1663 but is not one of the variant issues that include the supplementary pieces mentioned on that title. The printed title-page present here matches Darlow and Moule's state d.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary calf round spine gilt spine extra handsome metal and leather closures with gilt tooling on the leather; very pretty simple single gilt-roll border on each board. German floral paste-decorated endpapers and all edges red.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership signatures of I. Duvarus 1774; J.G. Drunnburg 1822 Johann O. Nordendam 1830 on front fly-leaf. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 8966; Graesse 103. Leather "shellacked" and shiny; volume now solid with front board reattached using the long-fiber method and areas of spine similarly improved. A sophisticated copy: four leaves of the prefactory matter b14 are inserted from a small copy possibly even a different edition. Some early underscoring; overall => very decent as a text and very attractive on shelf or in hand. Typis & impensis authoris hardcover books
189913914New York: American Bible Society 1899. 32mo. 186 pp. <br><br>Publisher's cloth wrappers front cover with gilt-stamped title; silk ribbon placemarker; all edges orange. Owner's signature at front endpaper. Pencilled marginal notations and marks and underlining throughout; notations to back blank pages. Faint offsetting from old paper inserted between several pages. Nice little book. American Bible Society hardcover books
185517620Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1855. 12mo. 571 1 iv 281 1 pp.; 3 maps 2 plts. <br><br>Early U.S. edition of Greenfield's text edited by Joseph P. Engles and accompanied as issued by "The Polymicrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: One-word signature "Grainger" dated 1860; signature of Charles Louis Marbury dated 1917. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hall American Greek Testaments 17. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth a bit rubbed over extremities with scrape to front joint. Front pastedown with small bookplate of a prominent 20th-century collector; pastedown and free endpaper also with inked inscriptions. Maps age-toned attractively. A few leaves with insect damage to outer edges with loss of words to two leaves; pages clean with some corners dog-eared. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
18097132Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum: Typis Academicis sumptibus W. Wells & W. Hilliard 1809. 8vo. 2 vols. I: 2 ff. pp. VII VIIIXXIV 275 1 blank pp. II: 1 f. pp. 277 278615 1 blank p. <br><br>First American printing of the Griesbach Greek New Testament and only the third version to be published here. Printed at Cambridge Massachusetts and using as its text the 1805 Leipzig printing interleaved with blank sheets for notes some of which have been employed for that purpose. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 17009; Hall American Greek Testaments pp. 27 & 65. Recent blue cloth spines gilt-lettered; slight rubbing to corners and lettering. Remnants of paper labels and inked marginalia on title-pages. Pages lightly age-toned with darker stains none obscuring print; but with a few small internal holes resulting in loss of individual letters but not of sense. Typis Academicis, sumptibus W. Wells & W. Hilliard hardcover books
180117430Londini: G. Woodfall for T.N. Longman & O. Rees et al. 1801. 12mo. 372 pp. pp. 365-68 bound in at end. <br><br>Darlow and Moule notes that this "closely resembles a duodecimo edition of 1794 printed at London impensis T. Longman etc. Reuss considers that the editor took the Elzevir text as his basis but arbitrarily introduced certain changes from a Plantin edition. The text of the present example differs slightly from that of 1794. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4776. Contemporary sheep dyed unevenly framed in blind double fillets; rubbed over edges and extremities spine leather cracking and lost over foot of spine original spine label now absent. Front free endpaper lacking; pastedowns and title-page with pencilled and early inked annotations and doodles. Pages waterstained and lightly to moderately foxed. Last four pp. of index bound in after advertisements. G. Woodfall for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, et al. hardcover books
176334979Oxoni: E typographeo Clarendoniano 1763. 8vo in 4s 23.5 cm 9.25". 4 676 pp. <br><br>Sole octavo printing of the Greek New Testament using Baskerville type i.e. Greek type that Baskerville designed and cut himself; and indeed this pleasingly was printed from the only set of Baskerville type that survives to this day still at Oxford's Clarendon Press. The text was based on the Mill edition of the Greek N.T.; Darlow and Moule notes that while the text "generally reproduces that of Mill . . . Reuss notes seven variations." => An important example of 18th-century fine printing of the Bible.<br>Â Â Â Â This copy retains its half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: The Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Gaskell enlarged ed. Add. 2; Darlow & Moule 4756. Contemporary acid-stained calf rebacked some time ago with morocco spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information; edges and extremities rubbed sides and spine with small scuffs. New endpapers with pencilled annotations; back pastedown with California bookseller's small ticket. No library markings. Title-page with tiny nick in upper edge. Pages very slightly age-toned with a very few scattered small spots otherwise crisp and clean. E typographeo Clarendoniano unknown books
164240055Cantabrigiae: Ex officina Rogeri Danielis 1642. Folio 37.5 cm 14.5". 8 10 ff. 766 i.e. 764 pp. 12 ff. 125 1 blank pp. 2 1 blank ff. <br><br>In 1565 Theodore Beza 15191605 also de Bèsze or Bèze Calvin's chief assistant and successor as leader of his reform movement first published his edition of the Greek New Testament with the Vulgate and his own Latin translation. For the edition of 1582 he revised his text based on the discovery of the important Codex Bezae Codex D a manuscript of the Gospels and Acts probably written in the 5th century and the principal witness to the Western textual tradition of the New Testament. Beza personally owned this codex and presented it to Cambridge University in 1581.<br>Â Â Â Â This is the first folio edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed in England as well as the => first GreekLatin edition of Beza's New Testament to be printed there. It is also considered by the ODCC to be the best edition of Beza's Latin translation of the New Testament. The text is based on Beza's fourth and last edition of 1598 and includes his annotations. Joachim Camerarius's commentary on the New Testament is appended at the end with its own sectional title-page and pagination.<br>Â Â Â Â Handsomely printed with an => engraved printer's device on the title-page by Wenceslas Hollar and woodcut initials head- and tailpieces this edition has the text in three parallel columns Greek Beza's Latin version and the Vulgate with a wealth of commentary above and below. The title-page exists in three states: the present one is printed in black only and lists the print-shop of Roger Daniel without "Londini venales prostant."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 1710 ownership signature of "R. Holde----." Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. 2728A; ESTC R35303; Darlow & Moule 4686; not in Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles. On Beza see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 16667. On the Western text of the N.T. see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 147071. Contemporary Dutch-style vellum over pasteboards with central blind-stamped medallion on both boards within a blind double-rule frame; vellum split along front joint outside and peeling at top and bottom of spine. Evidence of silk ties. Title-leaf with dust-soiling and discoloration at inner margin; dust-soiling and light water- or dampstaining variably elsewhere. Overall a sound decent copy. Ex officina Rogeri Danielis hardcover books
1948033537New York: Macmillan Company 1948. The text revised by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort. Student's edition with lexicon. Greek-English lexicon to the New Testament by W. J. Hickie at the end. 618 1 213 1p. original grey cloth. Macmillan Company unknown books