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17113862Amsterdam: Ex Officina Westeniana 1711. Sm. 8vo. 8856038pp. Double column text. Greek and Latin title page printed in red & black. Illus. with an added engraved title mounted 2 engraved folding ground plans and an engraved folding map. The title map & ground plans have been backed with a few added color printed illustrations on the blank versos. 19th century blind tooled calf. The endpapers are browned. Some marginal text notations. Ex Officina Westeniana unknown books
1790260927Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West 1790. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Joints a bit tender; tiny chip at tail of spine. A beautiful unrestored copy and with Pierce family inscriptions on the endpapers. pp. 358 2 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. With unusual ownership painting on the endpaper identifying the Psalms as belonging to Benjamin Pierce's Book 1791 and depicting a man up a tree by way of ladder either to send apples to another man seated below or to read his psalms aloft in peace-- let the viewer be the judge! <br/><br/>The following leaf includes a calligraphic presentation in 1799 to James Pierce who notes its use by "the society in Brattle Square" which we take to mean the then Congregational and later c. 1805-1876 Unitarian Church on Brattle Street in Boston Massachusetts. <br/><br/>The church distinguished itself by its somewhat relaxed attitude toward rigid Calvinist practices and by iits array of important ministers: Benjamin Colman 1699-1747; William Cooper 1716-1743; Samuel Cooper 1747-1783; Peter Thacher 1785-1802; Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1805-1812; Edward Everett 1814-1815; John Gorham Palfrey 1813-1831; and Samuel Kirkland Lothrop 1834-1876. The parishioners were no less esteemed: John Hancock Samuel Adams Joseph Warren John Adams Abigail Adams Richard Clarke Elizabeth Greenleaf Jane Mecom John Lowell Lydia Hancock Henry Cabot Lodge James Bowdoin 1676-1747 and many others. Hans Gram played organ in the late 18th century. The Pierce family's early days in America perhaps coming as early as about 1620 were spent largely in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and their legacy includes Benjamin Pierce governor of New Hampshire 1827-1830 as well as ten generations spent in what is now an historic landmark of seventeenth-century architecture currently serving as a museum in Dorchester Massachusetts. It is difficult to place exactly which Benjamin Pierce and James Pierce this copy belonged to in the large and lively family. Evans 22351 Printed by Joseph Bumstead for David West unknown books
176300008790Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Second edition. Hardcover. Fair. Large 4to. 5-992 3 4-277 1 pp. Printed in German Gothic type. Full leather calf spine in six compartments two metal clasps remain on the front board volume lacks the straps and the clasps on the rear board. Based on Martin Luther's 34th Halle edition of the Bible. Includes the Old and New Testament the Psalms Apocryphal Books 3 and 4 Books 1 and 2 of Ezra and Book 3 of Maccabees from the Berleburg Bible. ADNB "Sower Christopher September 1721-26 August 1784". Evans Vol 3. 9343. Hildeburn 382. Strand Kenneth "Saur German Bibles" Andrews University Studies Spring/Summer 1994 Vol. 32 Nos. 1-2 57-106.The second edition printed by Christopher Saur II the first edition having been published in 1743. Saur's family immigrated to Pennsylvania from Westphalia in 1724. Saur and his father advocated for Quaker causes via their printing activities in Pennsylvania. Saur was in charge of the bindery and of English language publications at his father's business. After his father's death Saur II continued to publish their newspaper their almanacs and their religious books bibles and hymnals etc. In 1773 Saur the II established a paper mill on the Schuylkill River which would greatly increase his wealth and standing in British America. However because of his later reluctance to participate in the American Revolution due to his Quaker beliefs Saur would have his house and properties sold off and died poor. This is the first Bible printed in any European language in the Continental United States. The 1763 edition eliminated Saur I's postface and included a new Foreword. 2000 copies of this second edition were printed. A Fair only example with significant loss to the spine and leather on the boards exposing the gatherings and the wood of the boards; lacks the first title page the free front endpaper the foreword the table of contents and the first page of the Old Testament; leaves show some dampstains and a few tiny tears. Christoph Saur hardcover books
176332387Germantown PA: Christoph Saur 1763. Thick quarto. 4 992 277 3pp. Printed in two columns. Expert restoration repairing tears with minor losses to OT 2 and A1 and NT A2 and Mm4. Contemporary calf over bevelled wooden boards early marbled endpapers rebacked to style spine with raised bands in six compartments<br/> <br/>The second Saur bible: the second edition of the first bible in a European language to be published in America.<br/> <br/>Sauer's text of the Luther translation was largely based on the Halle Bible but with the addition of the appendix to the Apocrypha with books 3 and 4 Esdras and 3 Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg version. When first published in 1743 Saur's bible was the first bible in a European language to be published in America and just the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder.<br/> <br/>Arndt The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America 269; Darlow & Moule 4240; Evans 9343; Hildeburn 1877; O'Callaghan p. 25; Sabin 5192; Wright Early Bibles of America pp. 28-50. Christoph Saur unknown books
1743WRCAM47841Germantown: Christoph Saur 1743. 49952777pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps. Clasps renewed corners worn head of spine expertly repaired. Contemporary and later manuscript notations on front pastedown and rear flyleaf. Titlepage with neat marginal repairs some light stains. Very good. The first European-language Bible printed in America and the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot's Indian bibles of the 1660s. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. Believed to have been printed in an edition of 1200 copies of which slightly over one-tenth are known to have survived. Christoph Saur was a native of Wittgenstein Germany who settled in Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. There are three variant titlepages noted for this work of which this is the second. A landmark in American religious and printing history. DARLOW & MOULE 4240. EVANS 5128. HILDEBURN 804. ARNDT 47. SEIDENSTICKER p.20. ESTC W18551. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1763WRCAM35899CGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear to edges of first and last few leaves. Some light soiling to text. Contemporary manuscript notations on endpapers. Very good to near fine. In a cloth box gilt leather label. The second edition of the first European language Bible printed in America after the first of 1743. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. <br> <br> A nice copy of an important early American Bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1776WRCAM44241BGermantown: Christoph Saur 1776. 49922773pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Hinges cracked but solid extremities worn. Light foxing and soiling moderate wear to first and last few leaves. Good. In a custom cloth box gilt leather label. The third edition of the first European- language Bible printed in America famously known as the "Gun-Wad Bible" after its use in the American Revolutionary War as cartridge paper during the Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible printed from type cast in America. Reputed to have been printed in an edition of 3000 copies most are said to have been destroyed by the British during the battle. The present edition was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition; the son then printed a second edition in 1763. EVANS 14663. HILDEBURN 3336. SABIN 5194. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1763WRCAM35899AGermantown: Christoph Saur 1763. 49922773pp. printed in double columns. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards clasps lacking. Boards scuffed light foxing and dampstaining. Titlepage and first few leaves loose. Family names and dates inscribed on front and rear fly leaves. A few small tears at fore-edge; larger tear in p.274. Typical browning to pages and light edge wear. Overall quite nice in original condition. The second edition of the first European language bible printed in America after the first edition of 1743. The text is based on Martin Luther's version by way of the thirty- fourth edition of the Halle bible with Book Three of Edras Book Four of Edras and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg bible. The present edition rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies was printed by Christopher Saur II son of Christoph Saur the elder a native of Wittgenstein Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. <br> <br> A very nice copy of an important early American bible. SEIDENSTICKER p.61. ARNDT 269. O'CALLAGHAN p.25. EVANS 9343. HILDEBURN 1877. ESTC W18552. SABIN 5192. Christoph Saur hardcover books
1743108185Single leaf 7 x 9 1/2â€. Germantown Pennsylvania: Cristoph Haur 1743. Single leaf 7 x 9 1/2†printed in black and red gothic letter. Some damp stains and foxing; good. § Title leaf from the first U.S. printing of Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible completely in German. Cristoph Haur unknown books
1777254347Dordrecht & Amsterdam New Testament & Psalms 1777. Thick 12mo. Contemporary pebbled morocco a.e.g. gauffered. Inscribed on the ffep "Robert H. Penyn/ from his friend/ J.H. Ten Eyck/Dec. 29 1861. Thick 12mo. 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
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
1781886031781. BIBLE -- GERMAN. DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS IM AUSZUG SAMT DEM GANZEM NEUEN TESTAMENT im Auszug samt dem ganzen neuen Testament nach Luthers Uebersetzung mit Anmerkungen von Georg Friedrich Seiler. Andre auflage. Erlangen in der Expedition der Bibelanstalt 1781. The Old Testament is in two parts followed by Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament all edited by Georg Friedrich Seiler with his notes and bound together in one volume. Separate title-pages and pagination for each section. xvi496495-590 i.e.592408 ii678 8 pp. Octavo 17.5 x 10 cm in a contemporary black leather binding with restrained gilt-stamped decoration red paste paper endpapers all edged gilt and gauffered. Some errors in pagination else nicely printed and clean in a lovely contemporary binding. unknown books
176316738Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn 1763. 4to. 10 702 pp. <br><br>Volume: "zehente theil." Text and commentary of Ezekiel and Daniel. Contemporary sheep raised bands on spine gilt roll above and below each band gilt-lettering in two compartments with title "Erklärung der Heiligen Schrift" gilt-stamped on a leather label gilt floral tooling in other four compartments. Worn and abraded a little dry and rusting gilt flaking away. Paper edges stained red. Waterstaining in upper and upper outer margins throughout. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn hardcover 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
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
176067973Bible in English Complete with the Apocrypha BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His MajestyÃs Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.Price 6s. unbound. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham 1760. Joseph Bentham's Bible. Eight octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 142 mm. Unpaginated. A8-Z8 Aa8-Oo2; E4-I2; Oo3-Zz8 Aaa8-Ddd2; A8-E3 2 blank I3-M8; Eee8-Uuu2 pp. This copy with the price of 6s. printed on title-page and with the Apocrypha. There is another state according to Herbert that is priced 4s. and is wanting the Apocrypha. It is possible that they sold the leaves with and without the Apocrypha thus the difference in price. Because the sheets were sold unbound it is possible that they were issued as parts. 31 leaves from the Apocrypha E4 through I2 are misbound into Volume IV. In their correct spot are bound 2 blank leaves. Old Testament and New Testament have separate title-pages. With a chart page after the Old Testament and after the New Testament. Bible is complete. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled paper boards. Ink title to spine of each volume. Previous owner's bookplate and signature dated 1770 on front pastedown of each volume. Title-page of each volume with some old ink manuscript notes to top margin. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped. Some minor staining and wrinkling to bottom margin of signature Iii. Overall very good or better copy. Just two years after Joseph Bentham published this present copy his Bible of 1762 was marked the "standard edition" according to Darlow & Moule. Herbert 1131. HBS 67973. $2250 Printed by Joseph Bentham hardcover books
179168436Very Rare Early American Edition of a ChildrenÃs Pocket Bible BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Abridged: Or the History of the Old and New Testament. Illustrated with Notes and Adorned with Cuts. For the Use of Children. Two lines from Luke. Boston: Samuel Hall 1791. Early American edition and first Samuel Hall edition second Boston edition. There were only a total of five Children's bibles published in America before 1791. The First American edition was printed in Boston in 1782 by Robert Hodge for N. Coverly followed by a Worcester Massachusetts 1786 edition by Isaiah Thomas 1786 and 1788 Philadelphia editions and a 1790 New York edition. Our present copy was published the year after the New York edition. Thirtytwomo 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 67 mm. 4 vii-ix 8 18-173 1 pp. With frontispiece of Adam and Eve and fifty-nine crude but charming woodcuts illustrations depicting stories from the text meant to appeal to young children. The stories that have been abridged for use in this Bible generally consist of the more well- known stories which would be of interest to children such as Creation Adam & Eve and Jonah and the Whale from the Old Testament as well as the birth baptism and crucifixion of Jesus from the New Testament. Listed in Evans but not in Sabin. We could find no copies of this edition at auction and only one copy found at the Massachusetts Historical Society. All early American editions are rare and only two complete copies of the New York 1790 edition since 1976. There was the 1786 Worcester edition at auction in 2008 but it was incomplete. Contemporary marbled paper over boards repacked with matching paper. Inner hinges strengthened. Bound without endpapers. Some soiling and toning throughout. One leaf page 145 with some fraying to the edges not affecting text. Overall very good particularly for a childrenÃs book. The rarity of this book can somewhat be contributed to its very small size and that it was intended for the use of children. Something as delicate and tiny as this Bible in the hands of a child had little hope for a bright future. ìBy 1789 Bible story collections specifically for children had existed in the mother country for nearly a century an active market in the American colonies had not opened up. Neither American Protestants nor American Catholics of whom were growing in numbers seemed ready to give Bible stories to their children. In the 1780Ãs the American situation changed radically. Boston printers pirated NewberyÃs Holy Bible Abridged; in 1786 the astute Worcester printer Isaiah Thomas followed suit; and by 1815 The Holy Bible Abridged had been printed in urban and provincial print centers all over the America northeast.î The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer Shipton & Mooney 46126 Bristol B7648 Welch D.A. Amer. childrenÃs books 6127 ESTC W1077 Brinley 5815. HBS 68436. $6500 Samuel Hall hardcover books
1752D3102Paris: Gabriel-Charles Berton 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. 268 half-page engraved illustrations including title vignette. 20 552 pages including half-title. 4to contemporary mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece spine ends rubbed cover corners worn; overall a very nice fresh copy. A charming old 19th century book marker with a little pillow at the head rests inside pillow dangling outside at the top. <br/><br/> Gabriel-Charles Berton hardcover books
1770WRCLIT69863Amsterdam: Chez Z. Chatelain & Fils et al. 1770. pi2 A-2N12; piA-2L12; 2691pp. 3 vols bound in one. 12mo. 18th century mottled calf gilt extra a.e.g. Joints cracking but sound spine ends worn some childish pencil doodles on blanks erased three clean cuts to rear free endsheet. A good sound copy. Although intended as a unit the OT and NT have separate registers and the NT its own title leaf. The printing of the Psalms includes musical settings. Chez Z. Chatelain & Fils, et al. unknown 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
179136794Gottingae: Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich 1791. Small 8vo 20 cm; 8". 2 vols. I: xviii 160 pp. <br><br>Variorum edition begun by Johann Benjamin Koppe 175091 and continued by Johann Heinrich Heinrichs 176550. Text of the Epistles in Greek preface prolegomena and commentary in Latin. The edition "alter auctior et emendatio curavit Th. Chr. Tychsen. 19th-century German black mottled paper over paste boards. Ex-library: call number label on spine bookplate on front pastedown. NO rubber-stamps. Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich hardcover books
179836792Gottingae: Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich 1798. Small 8vo 20 cm; 8". viii 267 1 pp. <br><br>Variorum edition begun by Johann Benjamin Koppe 175091 and continued by Johann Heinrich Heinrichs 176550. Text of the Epistles in Greek preface prolegomena and commentary in Latin. 19th-century German black mottled paper over paste boards. Ex-library: call number label on spine bookplate on front pastedown. NO rubber-stamps. Water stain in fore-margins of pp. 157-204 sometimes into text. Minor scattered foxing. Apud Io. Christian. Dieterich hardcover books
172334825Lipsiae: Sumptibus filii J. Friderici Gleditschii 1723. Folio cm ". 20 168 2 632 pp.; illus. <br><br>Based on John Mill's much-lauded 1707 edition of the Greek New Testament this is the second issue of Ludolph Küster's revised version originally published in 1710. A scholar from the Westphalia region of Germany Küster 16701716 specialized in paleography and Greek; this printing includes his preface and Prolegomena and extensive commentary in Latin below the main text. Using twelve new manuscripts in his research Küster significantly added to Mill's 16451707 collation.<br>Â Â Â Â The title-page printed in red and black features an => engraved vignette of the Virgin Mary enthroned above the Earth flanked by an eagle a lion a bull and an angel representing the Four Evangelists and there are => five additional large illustrative engraved vignettes functioning as headpieces in the text. Printed double-column and divided in the middle of each page by a paragraph of citations the text is dotted by a variety of woodcut floriated and historiated initials and factotum Greek capitals.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with pencilled inscription "C.B.P.B. 1709" and with bookplate of Newton Theological Institution properly deaccessioned noting gift from library of Edward Cushing Mitchell D.D. class of 1853. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4735. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked some time ago; scuffed and worn front joint starting from head and foot extremities rubbed and chipped. Front pastedown with inscription and bookplate as above; two text pages institutionally pressure-stamped. Offsetting to margins of first and last few leaves; waterstaining to inner portions of first 80 and a few final pages touching but not obscuring text on some pages and a small area of the first headpiece. One proud corner folded over several other corners bumped; scattered spots of light staining and ink smears not obscuring sense; occasional small edge nick. One early inked marginal annotation in English and Greek. Very readable and usable. Sumptibus filii J. Friderici Gleditschii unknown books
1723WRCLIT65879Lipsiæ Leipzig: Sumptibus Filii J. Fridericii Gleditschii 1723. 221682632pp. including special presentation prelim. Folio signed in 4s. Full 18th century gilt paneled vellum gilt extra with Amsterdam College arms in central panel and variations on Amsterdam city arms as corner pieces and as central devices in 5 of 7 spine compartments. Title in red and black. Engraved title vignette; engraved headpieces; tailpieces; initials some historiated. Greek and roman letter. Binding a bit rubbed and lightly soiled early and careful restoration of lower 12cm of spine in vellum ink bookseller's annotations on front and rear pastedowns extreme lower blank forecorner torn from 2I3 not approaching text small receding brown spot from A4 to B4 otherwise a very good or better copy. Second edition of Ludolph Kuster's revision of Mill's New Testament text the latter first published in Oxford in 1707. The first edition of Kuster's revision appeared at Amsterdam/Rotterdam with a Leipzig imprint in 1710. This is an interesting copy in an elaborate prize binding and including a specially printed singleton presentation leaf bearing an engraved vignette of the Amsterdam City arms and eleven lines of boilerplate letterpress with the variables executed in manuscript: in this case in 1760 to one "Joanni Meyer" signed in ink by the examiner. Mill's text accompanied by its "Prolegomena" described by D&M as "monumental" is "perhaps the most famous Greek Testament of the eighteenth century" - D&M 4725. An attractive copy. DARLOW & MOULE 4375 OCLC: 3041133. Sumptibus Filii J. Fridericii Gleditschii hardcover books