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1904WRCLIT67265London & New York: Samuel Bagster and Sons / James Pott and Co. 1904. xix14862pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers. A few pencil notes wrappers tanned at spine with shallow chips at spine ends; a good copy. A preliminary private version of Herbert 2136 with a special preface re: justification and methodology. The wrapper title asserts the text embodies "the Labours of Many Eminent English and Greek Scholars" and Herbert identifies the editors as Samuel Lloyd and George Washington Moon. The edition described in Herbert is "tentative" and has a different collation; an earlier partial proof appeared in 1902 see D&M 1348. COPAC locates two copies of the "tentative" edition and OCLC/Worldcat four but both come up empty for this "Private issue." A bibliographic and textual curiosity. HERBERT 2136ref. Samuel Bagster and Sons / James Pott and Co. 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
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
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
1480254000Ulm: Johann Zainer 1480. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. Bound in 18th-century paper boards with remnant of morocco spine label edges stained red. Spine defective and covers rubbed but binding is sound; several leaves bear stubs at outer edge from former index tabs; first leaf of Psalter extended at inner margin; final two leaves slightly waterstained; some browning and occasional stains; text block seriously trimmed but never into text. Notes on front endpapers and a presentation inscription in 1826 from a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church U.S. In a custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise. 293 of 296 leaves; lacking first 2 leaves of the Calendar and final blank. •6 ••8 a-x8 y12 z8 A-L8 M3. 1 vols. 8vo; 111 x 90 mm. An Incunable of the Utmost Rarity. Johann Zainer the Elder fl. 1472-93 established the first printing press at Ulm where his first book is dated 1473. This pocket psalter by Zainer is undated; the colophon gives only the printer's name and the city in which it was printed. ISTC gives a conjectural date of around 1480. <br/><br/>The book's handy but fragile format a thick octavo that would have been easily portable for late fifteenth-century users doubtless guaranteed a low survival rate. Indeed the few copies which have survived are often incomplete fragments or in poor condition.<br/><br/>ISTC gives the following locations: France: Strasbourg BNU imperfect wanting Commune sanctorum; Germany: Bamberg SB; Berlin SB; Fulda HLB; Leipzig DB/Buch fragment missing; München BSB 2 imperfect; Stuttgart WLB 3; U.S.A: Washington DC Washington Cathedral Library this copy<br/><br/>The present copy - the only copy in America - is complete save for the first two leaves of the Calendar and the blank leaf at the end. Goff Suppl. P1041a; H 13475; C 4927; GW M36206; ISTC No.: ip01041500 Johann Zainer unknown books
1940015027Brooklyn NY: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society 1940. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 381 pages of text including an index followed by 3 pages of publisher's advertisement. Original green hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and moderate soiling. The text is clean and unmarked. Jehovah's Witness. An early edition. Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society Hardcover books
181248036Boston: John Eliot 1812. Paperback. Good. 191pp. Foxed overall with some loss ato the edges else a good example in stitched wraps. <br/><br/> John Eliot paperback books
193021655Paris: F.L. Schmied 1930. Schmied François-Louis. Small folio 14-1/16 in x 11-1/8. 76 pp. Illustrated with twelve double-page and four single-page colored wood engravings. One of 155 copies printed on Madagascar paper plus 10 for collaborators and 7 on japon. Nasti B15. Full red morocco bound with the pages tipped to hinges cover with a central design after motifs in the book tooled in gilt on inlays of black and maroon morocco dentelles tooled in gilt and with gilt corner onlays gold and black silk moiré endsheets edges rough-gilt bound by Schmied signed on the front turn-in "F.L.S." Chemise and new matching slipcase. Light marginal foxing but in excellent condition.Schmied bound only books of his own creation choosing above all the books of his great years.The subjects of his designs come from the books themselves" Ray The Art Deco Book in France pp. 101-102. "In the introductory note.Théo Schmied points out the natural happiness of the interconnection between his father's cultural tendencies and art of the book and the world of the Near East as it is filtered by the 'inspired' Mardrus translations.throwing light on the the two fundamental aesthetic coordinates we need in order to understand how the details are made subordinate by the elegant decorative unity expressed by the plates that is the purity of the Egyptian graphic art and the will of the Italian primitives. The layout shows either a text harmoniously arranged in respect of double and single plates of various size or a text framed by rules forming a variety of geometrical patterns and decorated by bout de lignes in sienna. The illustrations mainly show subdued and delicate pastel colours" - Nasti. <br/><br/> F.L. Schmied unknown books
1639255527Lugduni Batavorum i.e. Leiden: ex officina Elseviriorum 1639. First edition. 12 43 5 966 86 pp. Printer's device on title-page. Text in Greek and Latin. 1 vols. Folio. Contgemporary panelled calf skillfully rebacked preserving original backstrip later marbled endsheets corners restored rear joint cracked but sturdy minor staining to covers; internally apart from slight dampstaining to inner margins quite clean and crisp. First edition. 12 43 5 966 86 pp. Printer's device on title-page. Text in Greek and Latin. 1 vols. Folio. Daniel Heinsius Commentary. Heinsius' massive commentary on the New Testament and one of his major achievements. The second part Aristarchus Sacer is his commentary on the Gospel according to John first published by the Elzeviers in 1627 and here slightly revised and enlarged. ex officina Elseviriorum unknown books
1604WRCLIT65625London: Excudebat Valentinus Simsius 1604. 48144149-7364 blank14pp. Blank A1 present Y1-2 not present but pagination continuous errors in numbering in signature 2S final blank not present. Small octavo. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt with gilt devices on each panel and initials 'I.O.' and "T.V.' on front and rear boards rebacked with remnants of original gilt backstrip and label laid down. Small ink spot on A6 occasional marginal discolorations faint tidemark in upper outer quadrant 2b and shallower scattered discolorations along some fore-margins toward end clean marginal tear without loss in 2T3 short repairs to marginal tears in A1 early ink name on A1 and ink identification of "Brydges" on title; title possibly supplied from a slightly smaller copy; yet a good sound copy. First edition of this Latin version of the New Testament translated/edited by John Bridges Bishop of Oxford 1535/6 - 1618. After a career of publications on Church government engagement in pamphlet exchanges and similar matters Bridges began work on this rendering of the text into Latin hexameters in 1599. In this copy leaves L8 M1 and T7 are in their canceled states. The sole edition reported in ESTC and an uncommon edition as well: ESTC locates only nine copies in North America. ESTC S106573. STC 3735. Excudebat Valentinus Simsius hardcover books
17673087Cambridge: John Archdeacon 1767. Two vols. 6.75 x 4.25". Contemporary Scottish black morocco spine in six compartments red morocco lettering pieces in the second others with gilt saltire with small flowers covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall dated 1769 pasted onto "Dutch gilt" endpapers. Some modern glue is visible in the inner hinge of the lower cover of vol. 2. Two original binder's blanks at the front and back of both volumes. Suitable for exhibition and study. This well preserved set of Scottish bindings is further distinguished by FOUR copy-specific letterpress bookplates printed in red and black no doubt in Scotland which reads in full: <br/><br/>"Elisabeth Hall Her Bible. 20th June. MDCCLXIX." <br/><br/>Concerning this printed bookplate it would appear that the present volumes contain the only known impressions of it thereby meriting inclusion in ESTC and elsewhere.<br/><br/>The tools on the front cover of the bindings have not been matched with published examples but the spine treatment and endpapers are decidedly Scottish.<br/><br/>That the Psalms were printed in Edinburgh Alexander Kincaid 1763 leads us to the conclusion that the present bindings are not only Scottish but that the original owner of them Elisabeth Hall was certainly Scottish herself.<br/><br/>John Archdeacon's 1767 Cambridge Bible is not in the National Library of Scotland. Unsurprisingly NLS has four copies of Alexander Kincaid's 1763 Psalms two of which are in the Bindings Collection: Bdg.s.8072 and Bdg.s.1002. John Archdeacon unknown books
180138808London: Printed for J. Wallis . by J. Cundee 1801. Near miniature 9.6 cm 3.75". Frontis. 32 32 pp. <br><br>Here for the young audience is a small volume composed of one-page or slightly longer synopses of the various books of the Bible. The volume begins with a fine metal-engraved frontispiece.<br>Â Â Â Â The book was also issued in the same year as vol. 6 of Wallis' ten-volume Book-Case of Knowledge.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership NN CtNlC NNPM NjP. Original green papercovered boards front with printed paper label; spine slightly sunned and rubbed. Pages clean and fresh. Printed for J. Wallis ... by J. Cundee hardcover books
006911Chefoo China: Women's Bible School American Presbyterian Mission No Date circa 1930. Near Fine pages with light toning. Oblong folio 10" x 13 3/4". Bound in beautiful red pictorial embossed silk over limp boards string-tied 28 pp of cut-out illustrations in black and white many with colorful silk inlays with tissue guards publisher's 1 page explanatory leaf laid in also an original 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" cut-out with colorful silk inlays and string hanger readt-to-hang laid in. Cut-out chapter headings are Travel and Transportation Customs and Habits Chinese Birth-Year Cycle latest date 1935 Occupations The Eight Immortals Myths and Legends Chinese Recipes Chinese Children Chinese Junks and The Magician. Well over 100 cut-outs in all including the bonus laid in cut-out and SCARCE THUS. First Edition. String Tied. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Oblong Folio . Women's Bible School, American Presbyterian Mission Paperback books
1811WRCLIT53949New York: Printed for and Sold by William Falconer et al 1811. xx291pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt label. First New York edition with a special Preface by Hardie for this edition. Scattered tanning a few minor spots to binding but a very good copy. First published in Philadelphia in 1795 and reprinted there in following years. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 22380. Printed for, and Sold by William Falconer [et al] unknown books
19413501SAN JOSE VICTOR HILLIS 1941 1941. STITCHED STIFF BLUE PRINTED WRAPPERS. 13 PAGES. VERY GOOD. ONE OF 600 COPIES. Soft cover. SAN JOSE, VICTOR HILLIS, 1941 paperback books
1965295082Chicago: Follett Publishing 1965. paperback. very good. A gun catalog illustrated in black and white. 576 pages. 4to paper wrappers. Chicago: Follett Publishing 1965. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Follett Publishing unknown books
1881041378Oxford: Clarendon Press 1881. The Greek text the Latin Vulgate and the Authorised English Version with an introduction critical apparatus and a commentary by William J. Deane. 224p. original green cloth half-inch cloth chip at the head of the spine ex libris. Title in Greek and English. Clarendon Press unknown books
193033600np 1930. Oblong 16mo original printed and illustrated wrappers 8pp. Near Fine. <br/><br/> Stella is presented here engaged in graphically illustrated indiscreet behaviors with her dentist. <br/> Tijuana Bibles "were produced by a shadowy criminal underground in the 1930s. Very little hard information is available about how the Bibles were created where they were manufactured and how they were distributed. One certain fact confirmed by numerous anecdotes is that these comic books were for many young men their first peek into the forbidden world of erotic intimacy" Adelman. They were crudely printed and illustrated porn tract-comic books. The skimpy stories featured contemporary movie sports folk political and cartoon characters in absurdly hyperbolic sexual relations. Why they're called Tijuana Bibles is a matter of speculation; 'Tijuana' was typically associated with iniquity and as an outlet for behavior considered impermissible elsewhere. Properly considered the ancestor of America's underground comics Tijuana Bibles declined in popularity in the 1960's as mainstream publications like Playboy would satisfy readers' prurient interests.<br/>Adelman Tijuana Bibles. Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies. 1930s-1950s. 1997. unknown books
1971IY915-265Los Angeles:: Bela Blau 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Miniature Book. 1 1/2 x 1 3/16 inches. 22 pp. Hand-colored portrait of Moses ten commandments in Hebrew printed within tablet-shaped rules text of the ten commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather decorative end-papers; binding square and tight light shelf wear smudges to covers. Very Good. SECOND EDITION of Blau's masterful edition of the Ten Commandments handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Bela Blau was a mainstay in the fine press community in Los Angeles for 40 years. Blau had been a printer in Hungary until he was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp during World War II. He had restarted his business after the war only to lose it again when the Communists took over Hungary. After fleeing to the United States in 1956 Blau went to work for a Los Angeles bookbinding company. Several years later he opened his own custom binding company and named it A-1 Bookbinding to win the lead spot in the telephone directory. An oral history of Blau's experiences during World War II is online at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bela Blau, hardcover books
1965IY915-266aLos Angeles:: Bela Blau 1965. Hardcover. Like New. Miniature Book. 1 x 3/4 inches. 27 pp. Portrait of Moses depictions of stone tablets with Hebrew text the Ten Commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped full red leather marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. IY915-266a. Fine. Handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Blau published several miniature book editions of the Ten Commandments. This was his first with the variant binding in red leather and elaborate gilt decorations on the front cover. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 408. Bela Blau, hardcover books
18569697New York: American Bible Society 1856. 8vo. 690 lacking 691-98 pp. <br><br>Third printing of the American Bible Society's first edition of the Bible in Welsh a double-column printing with the Welsh on the left and English on the right. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 9641. Contemporary sheep heavily rubbed. Front pastedown with ownership label and with small ticket from prominent collector Michael Zinman; pastedowns also with stray pencil marks. Lacking the front free endpaper and the last four leaves. Occasional margin chips resulting in losses of a few words; dried plant matter laid in. American Bible Society unknown books
1558303259Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi 1558. 478 p.; 333 1 16 pp. 108 woodcut vignettes by repetition of 78 blocks by Jacques Le Fevre. Printer's griffin device on title-page. 2 vols. 16mo. 19th-century polished calf; joints starting spine of first volume chafed; vol. I title soiled worn and remargined at gutter some toning and soiling to text throughout. 478 p.; 333 1 16 pp. 108 woodcut vignettes by repetition of 78 blocks by Jacques Le Fevre. Printer's griffin device on title-page. 2 vols. 16mo. Published by Sebastian Gryphius a German bookseller and printer who settled in Lyon in the 1520s. Described by Febvre and Martin as the "Prince of the Lyon book trade" in the 1540s he supported local humanist culture and used the italic type developed by Aldus Manutius to print compact beautiful books.<br/><br/>A famous illustrated New Testament important "chiefly because of its influence on Bernard Salomon's New Testament cuts". Baudrier VIII 290; Mortimer French 16th Century Books 90 edition of 1560; OCLC: 551931968 locates one copy Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi unknown books
158837032Genevae: Henricus Stephanus 1588. Folio 33 cm; 13". 6 ff. 555 1 blank pp. 8 ff. lacks final blank leaf; lacks vol. II Epistles Revelation. <br><br>An interleaved and heavily annotated copy of the Gospels and Acts of "Beza's third major edition of the Greek New Testament. The text follows that of the second major edition 1582 with only five exceptions" Darlow and Moule. => One should note that the title-page proclaims this "quarta editio" and that this is Estienne's third folio printing of Beza's N.T.<br>Â Â Â Â Beza's New Testament Greek text is here accompanied by his Latin and the Vulgate i.e. Catholic Latin translations the trio appearing in parallel columns on each page with => extensive notes that often fill as much as one-third to one-half of a page and with parallel references additionally set in the margins. The volume's title-page is printed in red and black and bears Henri Estienne's printer's device; a different finely wrought woodcut headpiece opens each book with each column on those pages bearing a woodcut initial at its head and a few of the books of the N.T. end with woodcut tailpieces.<br>Â Â Â Â Evidence of readership: An interleaved copy with => the vast majority of the leaves bearing an early 19th-century reader's notes and annotations. The notes cite references published as late as 1809 and it is clear that the natively German-speaking scholar was comfortable in Greek Hebrew Latin and English.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership signature on title-page of Leon St. Vincent. Later in The Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released; no markings.<br>Â Â Â Â The paper stock used for the interleaving has the classic ProPatria watermark and that and its countermark match Churchill's 151 which has a starting date of 1799. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 4650; Adams B1711. On the interleaves' watermarks see: Churchill Watermarks in paper in Holland England France etc. in the XVII and XVIII centuries. 19th-century half vellum with German pastepaper over boards spine with tinted and tooled label text recased and new endpapers; vol. I only of this production without the Epistles and Revelation. Title-page creased and dust-soiled all leaves before pp. 9/10 rodent-gnawed in lower outside corner with loss of paper but not of text or manuscript annotation and a bit of light waterstaining to rearmost leaves only. => An important edition and a singular copy. [Henricus Stephanus] hardcover books
152966850Beautiful French Woodcut Bible BIBLE IN LATIN. Textus Biblie. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529. Second Crespin edition reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio 13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm. 304 leaves 18 CCLXVIII 18 leaves. Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome repeated three times in the text with JeromeÃs prefaces within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum the six days of Creation and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament and 121 small text woodcuts including twenty-three repetitions: ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders including eight repetitions and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders including fifteen repetitions. Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons leaves D1-D3 are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards roll-tooled in blind to a panel design. Lacking clasps. Original index tabs. Binding worn with some loss of pigskin on upper corner of front cover. Title soiled lower margin of first few leaves wormed and frayed with some loss to woodcut title border a few short marginal tears some mostly marginal dampstaining minor worming to lower inner margins a few inkstains slight discoloration throughout. Despite these minor flaws this is a beautiful example of a French woodcut Bible completely unsophisticated. Contemporary ink inscription on back pastedown dated 1534 contemporary ink inscription on the recto of D4 beneath the Nativity cut eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on title: B.V. Maria in F¸rstenfeld. Some early underlining and coloring of woodcuts in red. A few early ink marginalia. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell case. The illustrations follow the schema of the Sacon Bibles printed in Lyons in 1518 and 1521. CrespinÃs blocks with the exception of the Creation are close copies of those used in Jacques and Jean MareschalÃs Lyons Bibles of 1523-1541 as is the layout of the text within ruled columns. The borders for the Old Testament blocks include a strip with the initials ìPBA.î Fairfax Murray French 36. Harvard French 66. Not in Brunet Rothschild Darlow and Moule. HBS 66850. $9500 Per Johanem Crespin hardcover books
19021322Hammersmith The Doves Press 1902-1904. Containing the Old Testament and the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty James the First. Issued in 5 volumes. Folio. Bound by Doves Bindery in original limp vellum with gilt title on the spine. A perfect copy of one of the 500 on handmade paper only two were printed on vellum. This is the one of the most beautiful books ever published by a private press and one of the three most desirable the other two are the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Ashendene Dante. In addition there are 18 specimen proof pages and original leaves included. Franklin: pp.117-118 Cave p.148. Doves Press books