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159939429Heidelberg: Ex officina Commeliniana 1599. 8vo 19.9 cm 7.75". 14 827 1 pp. Lacks interior blank only. <br><br>One of the last 16th-century interlinear editions of the Greek New Testament and Vulgate Latin as first presented in Plantin's monumental Royal Antwerp Polyglot Bible of 156972. The text is printed in Greek with the Vulgate in roman type inter-linearly; additionally there are decorative letters and head and tailpieces. When the Vulgate differs from the Greek its text is printed in the margin as a shouldernote and a literal Latin rendering by the great Spanish theologian Benedictus Arias Montanus a.k.a. Benito Arias Montano is printed in italics in the text. The Commelin device appears on the title-page which describes this printing as "Editio postrema multò quàm antehac emendatior."<br>Â Â Â Â Evidence of Readership: Marginal notes or accents in at least two early hands have been added in ink in two dozenplus places with one page used for scribbling and content ranging from a squiggle to a word to real notes; two Latin words and the publication date in Arabic numerals under the publisher's roman have been inked to the title-page.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Early calligraphic ownership note of "Dudley" dated 1843 on binder's blank; later ownership signature of E.F. Whitehouse with the shelfmark 354 and an acquisition note including the collectorly report "It was all to bits I had it bound and consider it a great curiosity. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adams B1716; Darlow & Moule 4656a; VD16 ZV 1904; USTC 440704. Recent half brown calf and mustard buckram cloth red leather spine label lettered in gilt all edges speckled brown new endpapers; very gently rubbed one short tear at bottom gutter of binder's blank. Light age-toning and waterstaining of various darknesses throughout most of the text with the occasional spot. The title leaf has been backed with a later paper with no loss of content; interior blank only lacking as above three leaves with small interior holes affecting letters two leaves with marginal sections torn away. Readership and provenance evidence as above with some inked notes trimmed or bled onto surrounding leaves. => Read and engaged with by multiple people and all the more intriguing because of it. Ex officina Commeliniana hardcover books
18246030Boston: J.H.A. Frost 1824. 12mo 18.2 cm 7.1". 379 5 1 blank pp. <br><br>Early American edition of the translation by eminent Swiss Protestant Jean Frédéric Ostervald based on a Paris edition and following 1811 and 1814 U.S. printings. Likely intended for use among French Canadians and French émigrés in the United States this is a good example of an early American printing of a complete Testament either Old or New in French. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep worn and abraded spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting others with varying degrees of age-toning. J.H.A. Frost hardcover books
18704811New York: American Bible Society 1870. 8vo. 2 3-447 1 blank 2 1 blank 3-112 pp. <br><br>32nd edition." Pica type. Contemporary sheep elaborately blind-embossed covers and spine; title gilt-stamped on the spine. Front cover detached; back joint open but cover still attached; edges rubbed; piece missing from spine. Age-toning. Waterstains in lower margins. American Bible Society unknown books
184216088Philadelphia: Thomas Sutton 1842. 8vo. 240 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 1153. Later 19th century quarter sheep over paper boards; worn paper over boards with water damage some bubbling chipping on board edges and chipping at head and foot of spine. A few dog-ears and tears without loss of text four pages shaved at outer edge with loss of last few letters of most lines. Moderate staining. Extensive pencil and ink notations and scribbles on endpapers some ink and pencil marks elsewhere. Front fly-leaf and rear fly-leaf and endpaper lacking. Thomas Sutton hardcover books
18317513Exeter N.H.: James Derby 1831. 32mo 11.1 cm 4.375". 259 1 blank pp. lacks the frontis. <br><br>Stereotyped by the publisher" this 32mo pocket New Testament is printed in two columns in small type set 16 lines to the inch.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Straight-grained roan covers gilt-ruled and spine gilt extra. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â O'Callaghan 213; Hills 765 not calling for a frontis. ; not in Herbert. Binding rubbed with corners bumped and spine-gilt faded but still softly pretty; lacking the frontispiece which Hills does not call for and title-page partially detached at gutter. Pp. 56 and 22930 chipped on lower outer corner with loss of part of page number from the former; free endpapers chipped; some old dog-ears; light foxing and occasional spots and occasional light waterstaining. => An attractive solid small American Testament. James Derby unknown books
179426207New Haven: Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin 1794. 4to 26.3 cm 10.4". 1168 pp. lacking frontis. portrait pp. 12128. <br><br>First American edition following the British first of 170003 of this successful and remarkably often reprinted New Testament with commentary by Anglican clergyman William Burkitt one online database erroneously describes a few holdings of this edition as having been printed in 1793. The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne called it a "deservedly popular work" with much "practical utility"; Spurgeon admired it too and useful in its way it still is.<br>Â Â Â Â The Biblical verses with interspersed exegesis are printed in double columns. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W32224; Evans 26668; Hills English Bible in America 47; O'Callaghan 49; Trumbull Connecticut 423; Horne Introduction to the Critical Study & Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures III 54. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked with speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; original leather rubbed edges and corners refurbished. First few leaves institutionally pressure-stamped. Title-page with edges browned and chipped margins repaired with tiny losses to two letters carefully supplied by hand; dedication leaf with repaired tear; last leaf with repaired tear. Pages age-toned with intermittent offsetting and foxing some corners bumped a few edge chips. Frontispiece and pp. 12128 early parts of Mark lacking. A sturdy handsome Bible for family use. Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin hardcover books
160033612Antwerp: By Daniel Vervliet 1600. Small 4to 21 cm; 8.25". 18 ff. 745 1 pp. 13 ff. <br><br>The second edition of the Roman Catholic new Testament in English. The translation is the work of a number of English Catholic priests but principally of Gregory Martin who fled to France in 1568 because of persecution in their native land and under the direction of Dr. later Cardinal William Allen founded the English College at Douai. The college moved for a short time to Rheims but subsequently returned as the title-page here attests.<br>Â Â Â Â The first edition of this translation was issued at Rheims in 1582 in over-sanguine hopes that its sale would be successful enough to underwrite the cost of a prompt production of the Old Testament. The two-volume O.T. did not appear however until 1609/1610.<br>Â Â Â Â The second edition of the Rheims N.T. is a revision of the first not merely a reprinting of it and contains a "Table of Heretical Corruptions" not found in the 1582 printing and a new preface. In an era of noticeable decline in the art of printing this Testament enjoys far better than average typography. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 198; Herbert 258; STC 2989; ESTC S102510. Late 17th- early 18th-century English calf with concentric blind panels on covers in contrasting tones of brown and tan all edges deep red; covers with scrapes and bumps rebacked with hinges inside strengthened new endpapers with 1906 owner's inscription on front free one. Title-page dust-soiled and torn in upper margin with some loss of decorative border page skillfully remargined with blank paper. Some foxing and age-soiling in early leaves; this similarly at rear starting around p. 640 and most notable in Tables with also some dust-soiling and with light waterstaining across a good number of upper outer corners. Overall a good to very good copy sturdy and appealing. By Daniel Vervliet unknown books
182520401Brussel: J.-B. Dupon 1825. 12mo 17.2 cm 6.75". 6 568 pp. <br><br>Reprinting of Verhulsts Old Catholic edition of 1717 circulated by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The work is printed in double columns with typographic head- and tailpieces. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow and Moule 3369. Contemporary diced calf spine tooled in blind with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and joints rubbed sides with minor abrasions spine sunned. Front pastedown with traces of a now-absent bookplate. Some light foxing mostly confined to first few leaves. Pp. 5/6 and 7/8 bound in out of order. One leaf with short tear from upper margin touching a few letters; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away with loss of two letters. All edges marbled. J.-B. Dupon hardcover books
184829504New York: American Bible Society 1848. 12mo 18.1 cm 7.1". 818 pp. <br><br>First edition of the first complete New Testament in Choctaw. Variously given as Chahta Chactas Chato Tchakta Chocktaw or Chactaw Choctaw is a language of the Muskogean family spoken by Native Americans who originally lived in parts of Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana before being relocated to Oklahoma. This translation was done by two Presbyterian missionaries the Revs. Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington; the Book of a Thousand Tongues says that they were "substantially assisted by Joseph Dukes and W.H. McKinney educated Choctaws."<br>Â Â Â Â The Rev. Wright 17881853 spent over 30 years among the Choctaw people in Mississippi and Oklahoma. He founded the Wheelock Mission named in honor of either Eleazer Wheelock Dartmouth College's first president or his son John his successor as Dartmouth's president or possibly both in 1832 where he was directly involved in developing the Choctaw written language along with Byington and Dukes. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 3051; Newberry Library Ayer Indians Choctaw-9; North & Nida Book of a Thousand Tongues 1972 265; Pilling Muskhogean 101; Pilling Proof-sheets 2744. Not in Field; not in Sabin. Period-style half morocco and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped title and date. First and last pages slightly smudged text otherwise clean; a few scattered signatures unopened. A handsome copy of an uncommon and significant New Testament. American Bible Society unknown books
185125307Neo-Eboraci: sumptibus et typis Leavitt et Trow; Bostoniae: Apud Crocker et Brwester 1851. 12mo. xxviii 508 pp. <br><br>A Hahn edition: "post Ioh. Aug. Henr. Tittmannum . ad fidem optimorum librorum secundis curis recognovit lectionumque varietatem notavit Augustus Hahn . Editio Americana stereotypa curante Edvardo Robinson. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hall American Greek Testaments p. 66. Ex-library copy: black buckram call number label on spine rubber stamp on title-page and other rubber stamps on endpapers and the closed edges of the volume. sumptibus et typis Leavitt et Trow; Bostoniae: Apud Crocker et Brwester hardcover books
185125306Neo-Eboraci: Leavitt et Co. 1851. 12mo. xxviii 508 pp. <br><br>A Hahn edition: "post Ioh. Aug. Henr. Tittmannum .ad fidem optimorum librorum secundis curis recognovit lectionumque varietatem notavit Augustus Hahn . Editio Americana stereotypa curante Edvardo Robinson. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Hall American Greek Testaments. Later black cloth; all edges gilt. Title in white on spine. Ex-library copy: remnant of call number label on spine perforation stamp on title-page. Title-page and first text leaf separated. Leavitt et Co. hardcover books
184025311Lipsiae: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii 1840. Small 8vo. xxxvi 657 pp. <br><br>Post Ioh. Aug. Henr. Tittmannum ad fidem optimorum librorum secundis curis recognovit lectionumque varietatem notavit Augustus Hahn." Contents: p. iii-vi Tittmann's preface dated 1819; p. vii-xvi preface by Hahn; p. xvii-xxxvi "Notitia subsidiorum" i.e. lists of MSS. versions etc.; p. 1-656 1 Greek text. 19th-century German black mottled paper over paste boards. Text block starting to crack between pp. xviii and xix. Ex-library: binding abraded old paper spine label bookplate on front pastedown. NO rubber-stamps. sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii hardcover books
18832572London: Longmans Green & Co. 1883. 4to. xvi 540 pp. lacking a total of 114 pp. <br><br>Artists at a major publishing house have sadly removed all the original full-page engravings and many of the other leaves from this handsomely illustrated and decorated Bible. Originally sixty full-page wood engravings all lacking in this copy and forty wood-engraved marginal ornaments initial letters medallions and culs-de-lampe illustrated this handsomely printed edition of the New Testament; in fact every page is decorated in some elaborate way. The illustrations are after Italian old masters such as Andrea del Sarto Fra Angelico Titian Raphael Leonardo Perugino and the like and the engravers were such notables as R.C. West J. Cooper W. Measom and the Messrs. Dalziel. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Herbert. Faux pebbled leather; spine modestly gilt. Binding abraded. Scattered foxing. All edges marbled. Lacking a total of 114 out of 556 pp. Longmans, Green, & Co. hardcover books
1949043214Stuttgart: Virtembergicum Institutum Biblicum 1949. Aduvantibus W. Baumgartner et el. Edidit Rud. Kittel; textum masoreticum curavit P. Kahle. Editio quinta typis editionis tertiae expressa. xl 1434p. 2 maps original black cloth in very nice condition. Virtembergicum Institutum Biblicum unknown books
172741004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. <br><br>Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
184011870Philadelphia: E. Cummiskey J. Howe 1840. 8vo. Frontis. to each testament engr. general t.-p. 691 1 blank pp. 3 ff. 191 1 pp.; 2 plts. <br><br>Reprint of the 1836 edition whose text was based on the fifth Dublin edition. As per collation a frontispiece to each testament an engraved general title-page and two other plates. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 1078. Publisher's diced calf spine elegantly gilt and covers with delicate gilt border hinges inside open but sewing strongly holding; otherwise general moderate wear and abrasion to covers rubbing with loss to edges and corners discolorations to spine in lowest compartment. Library bookplate on front pastedown; charge pocket and slip on rear endpapers; Inked private ownership inscriptions on front pastedown and title-page. Light foxing and browning second half of volume with crescent of stain to lower margin across gutter. E. Cummiskey, J. Howe unknown books
181419820Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1814. 2 vols. in 1. 4to 24.1 cm 9.5". 441 160 ff. <br><br>Early American printing of this popular commentary originally published in several years worth of weekly portions. The text is that of the King James Bible and is supplemented by extensive notes from Thomas Scott one of the founding members of the Church Missionary Society. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 259; Shaw & Shoemaker 30867. Contemporary treed sheep spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding rubbed front joint cracked back joint starting from top spine extremities chipped. Front pastedown with private collectors small bookplate title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. Pages age-toned. William W. Woodward hardcover books
163226102London: Robert Barker.by the assignes of John Bill 1632. Folio 34 cm 13.4". 15 507 1 ff. lacking 7 prelim. ff. <br><br>preceded by Speed John. The genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery familie and tribe. London: F. Kingston 1632. Folio. 2 34 pp. with Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold & Hopkins. 1632. The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter. London: Pr. by R. Badger for the Co. of Stationers 1632. Folio. 2 114 pp. lacking 8 index pp.<br>Â Â Â Â Attractive folio King James Bible set in roman in double columns ruled in red throughout with woodcut headpieces and decorative capitals. Darlow and Moule suggest that this edition was actually printed in early 1633 as a number of copies are recorded as having their title-page dates altered by hand to read 1633 as is the case here.<br>Â Â Â Â The Apocrypha are present with the blank space on the last page of Malachi filled with an early inked "account of the several books in the Apocrypha." => The Psalter following the Bible includes music. The O.T. title-page is engraved and signed very faintly in this example by William here "Guilielmus" Hole and is framed by an elaborate architectural border displaying the coats of arms of the 12 tribes of Israel and portraits of the 12 Apostles. => The recto of the list of books is a full-page engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by animals. The New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1632 with an ornate wood-engraved border featuring Justice and Truth along with the British lion and unicorn and various architectural motifs.<br>Â Â Â Â The volume opens with two fly-leaves bearing genealogical records in several different early inked hands with dates ranging from 1743 through 1847. A copy of Speed's Genealogies precedes the Old Testament while the "Description of Canaan" with map that should close the Genealogies has been bound in after the O.T. title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC S122379; Darlow & Moule 359; STC 2nd ed. 2298.5. Speed: ESTC S126191; STC 2nd ed. 23039a.4. Psalms: ESTC S122383; STC 2nd ed. 2633. Recent mottled calf covers fillet-framed and panelled in blind with decorative inner blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands. Front cover with two slender scrapes; title-page with date altered in ink to 1633 as above. Front fly-leaves with margins repaired; Description of Canaan with inner margin reinforced. Bible seven preliminary leaves lacking calendar dedication preface and list of books all present; Psalms four final index leaves only lacking; foliation slightly erratic. Varying degrees of age-toning occasional light waterstaining some margins with faint smudging; in fact and in sum a nice volume to hold and work with. Robert Barker...by the assignes of John Bill hardcover books
192320518Boston: R. H. Hinkley 1923. 8vo. 14 vols. 70 plts. <br><br>This handsome and much-sought edition of the King James Bible was printed at the Merrymount Press and limited to 2574 sets: 1000 on wove paper 1000 on laid paper 488 on handmade paper and 86 on Japan paper. This set is #233 printed on handmade paper and contains 70 fine plates usually 5 per volume and mostly photogravures after paintings. The edition was designed for smooth reading and the text is set in ordinary paragraphs without chapter and verse numbers.<br>Â Â Â Â This work has a complicated and as yet not fully explained printing history. It was probably first printed in 1904 with sheets reissued or reprinted at various times in the subsequent two decades. Even the name of the publisher on the title-page varies; "The Grolier Society" sometimes appears in place of Hinkley.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's quarter tan pigskin spine leather over deeply grained polished bare wooden boards with bevelled edges on the three outer sides in the style of incunable and 16th-century books. Raised bands on spines; spine panels tooled and lettered in blind. Unusual and attractive. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Smith 209; Hills 2155 for the 1904 edition and explanation of reissues. Bound as above with top edge gilt other edges uncut. Spines darkened and some chipped. One cover detached and present. Much enjoyment. R. H. Hinkley hardcover books
18318254Boston: Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press Francis Jenks proprietor for Gray & Bowen 1831. 4to 27.7 cm 10.875". In 2 vols. I: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 915 1 blank pp. II: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 804 1 blank pp. 1 blank f. <br><br>Handsomely and plainly printed in two columns of large type without notes this two-volume Bible is as remarkable for the becoming simplicity of its layout as it is for its handsome binding of red leather gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Boston binding Straight-grained red morocco amply gilt in the Regency style: Front corners with a wide gilt-stamped foliate frame enclosing a narrow blind-ruled frame. Spine with raised bands a broad foliate gilt roll on each band second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered within rest with gilt frames. Gilt inner dentelles and board edges. Red and white silk head bands. Marbled endpapers in a stone pattern. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Presentation inscription on front fly-leaves: Preston S. and Francis M. Lincoln to their grandmother Hannah Shepard 1835. Small booklabel of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 733; O'Callaghan 208. Binding as above edges and joints with minor rubbing front joint of vol. II opening from foot bindings showing a few light or small abrasions; overall clean and attractive. Lacking frontispiece for vol. I and possibly a frontispiece for vol. II: O'Callaghan gives this edition as having a frontispiece for each volume while Hills cites two copies one this size with a frontispiece for vol. I only and a large paper copy with a frontispiece for each volume. A few closed tears into text without loss; some pages especially towards the end of vol. I shallowly chipped without loss of impression; light foxing throughout with occasional darker browning or staining. Inked ownership inscription on the recto of the first fly-leaf of each volume. [Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press, Francis Jenks, proprietor, for] Gray & Bowen hardcover books
18197970New York: American Bible Society stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw 1819. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.5". 705 1 215 lacking 1/2 1 blank pp. <br><br>Early American Bible Society Bible following its first which appeared in 1816. This stereotyped New York Bible was done from the same plates as Fanshaw's 1818 Long Primer Octavo and this 1819 example is seen institutionally far more often in microform copies than in genuine holdings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front cover with blind-stamped logo of the American Bible Society; title-page with inked inscription reading "Mary Ann Lanings word obscured August 24 1823." . <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title.<br>Â Â Â Â Well used but not abused; an evocative copy. American Bible Society (stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw) hardcover books
181235967Philadelphia: Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia by T. Rutt Shacklewell London and pr. by William Fry 1812. 12mo 17.9 cm 7". 456 45978 481633 1 pp. 1 f. 191 1 pp. <br><br>The first Stereotyped Bible Printed in America. The Bible Society of Philadelphia founded in 1808 with Bp. William White as its first president was the first Bible society organized in the United States. It published this the first stereotype Bible printed in the U.S. from plates imported from London; the B.F.B.S. contributed £500 towards the purchase of the plates and they were admitted to the U.S. free of import duties. The initial run produced 1050 copies of the complete Bible and 750 copies of the New Testament in double columns in very small type.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of Edward H. Mills dated 27 May 1843 on front pastedown. From the collection of Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24835; Hills 213; Herbert 1560; O'Callaghan 110; Wright Early Bibles of America 19293; Rumball-Petre 189. Contemporary sheep rubbed with joints opening and leather lost at spine head; wormwork to spine and some margins of text. Volume "soft" with sewing pulling away from spine and a few gatherings separated; text foxed and browned as often; several leaves perhaps two dozen damaged with some loss of text perhaps a dozen more with small tears. Lacking two leaves of the Old Testament all others present. A distressed copy of this important edition and priced accordingly. Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia, by T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London, [and pr. by William Fry] hardcover books
179631848Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. 1796. Folio 42.2 cm 16.7". 748 pp. 2 final ff. of back matter lacking; 18 plts. <br><br>Bible collector's treasure: the first edition of the Berriman Bible. Noted for its excellent illustrations by several contemporary American engravers including Alexander Anderson Cornelius Tiebout Francis Shallus and William Rollinson this large and handsomely produced lectern-sized folio Bible is printed in two columns with sidenotes including scriptural cross-references and a chronology. The plates include scenes of Adam and Eve in paradise frontispiece the Egyptian midwives drowning the Hebrews' infant sons Judas Maccabaeus slaying Apolloninus and Judas betraying Christ with a kiss; the maps show the presumed historical setting of the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land. One plate in this copy "The Parting of Lot and Abraham" is bound in upside-down.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription in upper margin: "Benjamin Morris to Samuel White Sept. 17th 1826" and with tipped-in typed slip noting presentation to a seminary by the Rev. John Cyrus Madden class of 1893 who had received the book from Charles Reifschneider a descendant of White. Spine with gilt-stamped leather label reading "Deborah Morris to" only! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright Early Bibles of America 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506. Early 19th-century mottled sheep covers framed in blind roll spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; scuffed and rubbed gilt now mostly lost front cover with inkstain front joint cracked but holding and back one holed back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut yes cut away and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including bookplate pressure- and rubber-stamps and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate occasional spotting and smudging some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears a few with tears extending into text some with loss of a few letters. Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking one leaf crudely repaired some time ago last leaf tattered; two final leaves last portion of tables section and the subscribers list lacking with scraps of the "Table of Kindred & Affinity" laid in. => Marked by time and use still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition. Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. hardcover books
150741458Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 177576. 4to in 8s 28.8 cm 11.33". Frontis. 639 ff. <br><br>with accompanying volume The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1781. 8vo 20.7 cm 8.15". 376 ff. bound with Vickers William. A companion to the altar: Shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation in order to our worthy receiving the holy communion. London: Pr. for Thomas Beecroft 1783. Frontis. 2 v55 1 adv. pp. lacking half-title or initial blank and with Bible. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of psalms collected into English metre. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1785. 8vo. 64 ff.<br>Â Â Â Â This striking 18th-century set owned by a wealthy Englishwoman who spent much of her life in Switzerland for more on which see below pairs a handsome Cambridge Bible and BCP in => masterfully designed and executed deluxe matched bindings. The Bible opens with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; the Apocrypha are present in this copy and the New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1776. The BCP is bound with Companion to the Altar "Note This Book is bound up with the Common-Prayers of several sorts printed by the University of Cambridge" as per the title-page; Sternhold & Hopkins bring up the rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Bindings: Contemporary mottled green morocco covers framed in Greek key roll and dentelles composed of urn and flower motifs surrounding central JHS medallions with red morocco inlays and gilt-tooled flames; spines with gilt-tooled compartment decorations Bible spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label. While the covers of the two volumes are strongly similar overall and "read" as => identical on first glance the details of the design vary slightly between the Bible and the BCP as the size disparity and possibly the time gap between the publication dates necessitated the use of different tools. The spine designs differ more notably but still most companionably with the Bible's spine decorations being built up with foliate and floral motifs and the BCP's with suns and stars. => To engage in minute comparison of these bindings' detail is an entrancing exercise.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front free endpaper of Bible used for family record: Francis James Barwell de Sandol Roy born in 1793 and died in 1813 "Quel angoisse!"; Henri Guillaume de Sandol Roy born in 1797; and a list of grandchildren: François Sophie Anna and Alfred. The title-page inscription confirms that this set was owned by Sophie Bridget Barwell de Sandol Roy 17691850 daughter of William Barwell a director of the East India Company; her brother Richard became a famously wealthy and scandalous nabob. Dubbed "la belle Anglaise" following her arrival in Neuchâtel Sophie made a great splash in Swiss society and received a proposal from Colonel François Isaac de Sandol Roy sometimes given as Sandol-Roy a proposal which she at first rejected until he subsequently saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary Paris! For more on their story please see Musée Neuchatelois 1923 ed. pp. 24 which includes a reproduction of a portrait of Sophie de Sandol-Roy done by Sir Joshua Reynolds. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bible: Darlow & Moule 1247; ESTC T88808. BCP: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1781:1; ESTC T212010. Companion: ESTC T76554. Psalms: ESTC T221010. Bindings as above moderate rubbing to extremities and sides with limited scuffing only; all edges gilt marbled endpapers and original matching dark blue bookmarks present still attached. Bible with small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of first few leaves including frontispiece; varying faint to moderate foxing; one leaf with small repair to upper outer margin. BCP with a few instances of light foxing pages mostly clean; laid in is a stitched pamphlet which seems to be a record of additional family information involving Albert Victor and Mary although written in a challenging hand. => A gorgeous lavish production altogether with a remarkable arresting provenance. Pr. by John Archdeacon hardcover books
18088633Baltimore: Henry S. Keatinge 1808. 12mo. 458 pp. <br><br>Compiled from the writings of the most eminent historians divines and commentators. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 15257. Contemporary sheep spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; binding worn and abraded with leather cracking over spine. Some offsetting to endpapers; pages age-toned. Henry S. Keatinge hardcover books
