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1894298729Leipzig: Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig 1894. hardcover. very good. German Gothic text printed in double columns each within a red border and with red decorative initials throughout. 2 volumes Old & New Testaments. Very thick folios illustrated with 127 fantastic titled chromolithographic plates by various European artists including Ridinger Luca Giordano Andrea Appiani Philippe de Champagne Nicolas Poussin Paolo Veronese Francesco Barbieri Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo et al. all with tissue guards. Elaborate publisher's binding with highly ornamental beveled covers featuring an inlaid picture surrounded by deeply etched patterns with gilt and metallic accents along with inset decorative stones; all edges gilt; large metal clasp closures on each volume. Covers show some light edgewear and have been re-backed in sympathetic brown morocco; the pages and illustrations are clean. Leipzig: Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig 1894. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig unknown books
1927272349London: Bodley Head 1927. hardcover. near fine/very good-. Introduction by C. Lewis Hind. Color illustrations with lettered tissue guards by Violet Brunton. 165 pages deckled edges tall 8vo decoratively gilt black cloth. London: Bodley Head 1927. A fine copy in a good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Bodley Head unknown books
1983226292Esher Penmiel Press 1983. 1983. 8vo. Headings within red decorative borders; large initial letters. Original stiff brown and tan floral wrappers by Legatoria Piazzesi; paper label. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. Number 18 of 30 numbered copies the entire edition. Text printed in brown and red. Soft cover. Fine. [Esher, Penmiel Press, 1983]. paperback books
1826246648Albany New York: S. Shaw 1826. 256 pp. 45 x 34 mm. Bound in contemporary calf very Good. 256 pp. 45 x 34 mm. S. Shaw unknown books
1815246649Boston: Nathaniel Willis 1815. Illustrated with woodcuts. 254 pp. 50 x 30 mm. Bound in contemporary calf "Bible" stamped in gilt on spine about fine. Illustrated with woodcuts. 254 pp. 50 x 30 mm. Adomeit A33; Shaw & Shoemaker 34916; Welch 860.3 Nathaniel Willis unknown books
193340012Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d'Arte Grafiche 1933. hardcover. very good. Preface di Cardinale Idelfondo Schuster; introduction by di Vescovo Adraiano Bernareggi. 151 plates including 24 mounted & in color. Folio decorative rust cloth rubbed. Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d'Arte Grafiche 1933. Very good.<br/><br/> Instituto Italiano d'Arte Grafiche unknown books
1826WRCAM45553New York 1826. 207pp. Contemporary calf. Extremities rubbed. Lower portion of hinges cracked but still solid. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf and titlepage. Lightly tanned. Very good. "Imprimé sur l'édition de Paris de l'année 1805. Édition stéréotype revue et corrigée avec soin d'après le texte Grec." A publication of the American Bible Society. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 23808. unknown books
183124948New York: Imprime par D. Fanshaw aux Frais de La Societe Biblique Americaine 1831. Later printing. Full calf with gilt rules to spine. Wear to spine ends front joint worn else a very good copy endpapers toned scattered foxing tight in binding. 207 pp. 12mo. In French. An export from the Bible Society to France. Imprime par D. Fanshaw aux Frais de La Societe Biblique Americaine unknown books
1817IY815-139Paris: Chez Lefevre 1817. Hardcover. Good. 16mo in 8s. 4 3/16 x 2 5/8 inches. 576 pp. Engraved frontispiece of King David drawn by A. Desenne and engraved by C. Johannot engraved title page 1 leaf of the Principes de Musique do re mi each Psalm opens with a musical setting followed by the text of the remaining verses 16 ancient hymns and a series of prayers table of first lines of the psalms and hymns; text generally clean although there are pencil scribbles on the title page pages 435-426 torn from the bottom edge up 2 inches right at the edge of the text some pages dog-eared. Full tan calf covers gilt ruled and decorated at the margins elaborate gilt decorations on the spine along with a red leather title label marbled end-pages silk page marker; binding square and tight corners showing joints worn with loss rear board has loss of the leather surface spine ends chipped. Bookplate of "De la Librairie de J. P. F. Crosilhes Place Royal A Montauban." Owner's name in pencil on the recto of the frontispiece "Mary Miller 1830." From the library of Mel Kavin southern California book binder without distinguishing marks. IY815-139. Good. A lovely setting for the Psalms of David showing expert musical typography. Also included are 16 ancient hymns and 8 devotional prayers. Chez Lefevre was a Parisian printer who kept the classics of French literature in print from the 1810s to the 1840s. Worldcat records over 700 titles for Chez Lefevre. Worldcat records 7 copies of this title 2 in Switzerland in online archives all in continental institutions. J. P. F. Crosilhes was a printer and bookseller in Montauban a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of southern France. Chez Lefevre hardcover books
1771225739Paris Herissant et.al. 1771. 1771. "Nouvelle Edition" so stated. 16mo. 676 pages. Contemporary brown leather marbled edges and endpapers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. An attractive prayer book and Bible. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris, Herissant et.al., 1771. hardcover books
1984266258Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited. hardcover. fine. Over 100 colorful illustrations embellished with gold; decorated initial letters throughout. 8vo full brown leather elaborately decorated in blind-stamp; raised bands & papal seal on spine. Stuttgart: Belser 1984. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> Beautiful facsimile of a 13th century bibletranslated by St. Jerome in the Vatican Library Codex Vaticanus Latinus 39. Signed by the Prefect of the Bibliteca Apostolica Vaticana this is an edition of 600 copies but this one is marked "Sample not for sale." Housed in a special silk cloth presentation case.<br/><br/> Belser unknown books
1828255836London: William Pickering 1828. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece by Worthington after da Vinci woodcut device on title page. 612 pp. 1 vols. 3-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches. Contemporary full green morocco a.e.g. Faintest traces of rubbing. Fine. Diamond Classics. Engraved frontispiece by Worthington after da Vinci woodcut device on title page. 612 pp. 1 vols. 3-5/8 x 2-1/4 inches. Printed in beautiful Greek diamond type by C. Corrall. Keynes p. 81 William Pickering unknown books
178791New York: American Bible Society. hardcover. near fine. Set of 31 slim booklets in a cloth box. A complete Bible with most volumes being single Books but with several in combination. The 12mo booklets between 50 to 170pp each are staple-bound in the original flexible maroon cloth. New York: American Bible Society no date circa 1915. A fine set in a good box.<br/><br/> American Bible Society unknown books
240416San Francisco: Arion Press. paperback. near fine. Thin folio black wrappers lettered in gilt. Inserted is a fold-out with 4 sample pages from Genesis Job Psalms & John. San Francisco: Arion Press<br/><br/> "There is a clarity and crispness that takes your breath away."<br/><br/> Arion Press unknown books
192521279Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown morocco spine blue boards backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. Rooke Noel. 43 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Presentation copy "Mabel Gill from her husband Evan R. Gill April 29th 1926" in black and red ink. Limited edition copy 188 of 370 printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper in Caslon O.F. The text taken from Barker's quarto edition of the Authoriized Version of 1612. Wood engravings by Noel Roarke who made a major contribution to the revival of British wood engraving in the twentieth century. Rooke was employed by William Lethaby his first class of seven students included Rooke Eric Gill Graily Hewitt T.J. Cobden Sanderson. CHANTICLEER 32. Laid-in an extract from the London Mercury by B.H.Newdigate and hinged at back cover obituary of Noel Rooke The Times of London October 7 1953. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
2220Philadelphia; 1845-46: Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. With marginal readings together with a copious and original selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages exhibited in a manner hitherto unattempted. Engraved half-title 2 title pages 2 frontispieces illustrated with 6 mapssome folding 7 engravings and 1 folding chart all bound in original green morocco elaborately decorated in gilt raised bands with compartments gilt decorated yellow endpapers all edges gilt. A lovely little copy showing on very minor spots of rubbing to joints and edges and a few ocassional spots of foxing contemporary owner's name. <br/><br/> Sorin & Ball/Thomas Warddle hardcover books
1982226098Santa Cruz The Bood Book Press 1982. 1982. Large 8vo. Woodcut illustrations by Donna Thomas. Original 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards. Original dust jacket printed in red. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. Number 99 of 100 copies on handmade paper by Peter Thomas. Handprinted using Centaur type. The story is Luke 2: 1-18 from the King James Version of The Bible. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Santa Cruz, The Bood Book Press, 1982. hardcover books
199544341NY: Schocken 1995. Large 8vo pp. xxxi 1024. With suggestions for further reading. The Schocken Bible: Vol. I. Ivory paper over boards cloth spine stamped in gilt. AEG. A nice copy in slilghtly spotted and chipped dj. Heavy. Schocken unknown books
198471486New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984. hardcover. fine. Hebrew texts English translations introduction and new liturgies. Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. Liturgies edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein. Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin. Original frontispiece lithograph signed & dated. 37 watercolor plates. 323pp. Folio cloth d.w. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984. A fine copy.<br/><br/> New Translations of Ecclesiastes Esther Song of Songs Ruth and Lamentations with explanatory notes. Text in Hebrew and English. One of 175 copies printed on pure rag sheet paper & numbered and signed by the artist.<br/><br/> Central Conference of American Rabbis unknown books
1984278064New York: Ccar 1984. hardcover. near fine/very good. Baskin Leonard. Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin. Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. Introductions co-edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein and Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. xiii 323 pages. Thick folio blue cloth d.w. New Yorki: CCAR Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984/5744. Small dent in dw spine; neat inscription in English and Hebrew on front free endpaper still a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Ccar unknown books
1932224302Oxford: Clarendon Press 1932. First. hardcover. fine. Printed in red and black. Small folio full red morocco elaborately stamped in gilt & blind with numerous borders enclosing four rectangles also with borders; raised bands with 6 decorated panels on the spine by the French Binders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1932.<br/><br/> Printed with the Greek type of Robert Proctor the third book for which the type has been used the others being The Oresteia 1904 and The Odyssey 1909. Two leather bookplates and the dentelles have offset on the flyleaves otherwise fine in a black leather-backed cloth slipcase.<br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
19329026550Leipzig: Limited Editions Club 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Decorations by E.R. Weiss. Introduction by Ernest Sutherland Bates. One of 1500 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte and signed by the illustrator. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slipcase with printed paper label shows wear at one edge. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1932220539Washington DC Judd & Detweiler 1932. 1932. First edition thus. 4to. 32 line illustrations by Earl Winslow. Original gilt stamped tan cloth t.e.g. Acetate dust jacket. Fine fresh copy. One of 475 numbered copies signed by Winslow. Designed by Lester Douglas and John Davis. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. Washington, DC [Judd & Detweiler] 1932. hardcover books
1959251299New York: Kress 1959. Private. hardcover. near fine. 44 color plates. 253 pages. 4to cloth-backed boards t.e.g. slipcase solid but somewhat faded and worn at edges. New York: The Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1959. A near fine copy in very good slipcase.<br/><br/> Kress unknown books
1835243460Hartford: Andrus and Judd 1835. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with nearly 500 wood cuts. 16mo 132 pages overall browning handsomely rebound in full brown calf with lined borders on covers and spine. Hartford: Andrus and Judd 1835. Very good .<br/><br/> Andrus and Judd unknown books