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1867220850London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1867. hardcover. good. Text in double columns. 1156pp. 4to contemporary black calf elaborately blind tooled a.e.g. Llundain London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1867.<br/><br/> Reprint of the first quarto Welsh Bible issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1841. It is commonly used as a pulpit Bible in Wales. Front flyleaf and following blank page partially loose front outer hinge cracked and repaired. Scattered light soiling to text. Very light wear to edges of covers. On three preliminary pages is the family history of John Owen Jenkins written in manuscript.<br/><br/> Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books
1814010430London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1814. Thick Octavo. The first Welsh Bible printed at London for the British Foreign Bible Society 2pp 9571pp. and 320 pp. Also this edition was printed in larger type with double columns and chapter headings. Tables of measures are on p. 959 at the end of the Old Testament; New testament title page dated 1814 and p. 320 has a table of offices at the end of the New Testament. Both of course are in Welsh. In this edition T. Charles corrected the text of 1809 edition. It was completed just two days before the editor's death on October 5 1814. This copy notes in small print that it was available at L.B. Seeley 169 Fleet Street. Genealogical notes of Jane Morgan Jane Davis and her siblings continuing to her death in 1843. Bound in full blind stamped calf beautifully rebacked with matching dark brown leather and red morocco spine abel gilt end papers renewed. The original boards have the initials and logo of the B.F.B.S. A very good copy with some scattered foxing or toning. . Darlow & Moule II 1675. 957. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
188031077Lipsiae: Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz 1880. 8vo 22.4 cm 8.8". 1 f. 82 pp.; manuscript notes bound in. <br><br>This "textum masoreticum" book of psalms i.e. the traditional Hebrew text was edited by masoretic scholar Seligman Baer 182597 and theologian Franz Delitzsch 181390 as part of their Masoretic Bible series published by Tauchnitz between 1869 and 1895. A truly => unique copy this particular volume is thickly interleaved with variously sized sheets and tabs containing the fastidious manuscript notes of published author => Walter Robert Betteridge D.D. 18631916 a notable faculty member in the Old Testament Department of the Rochester Theological Seminary who swathed page after page in minute inked marginalia and added yet more bulk with clippings from related texts annotated of course.<br>Â Â Â Â Among the doctor's publications was an article on "The Accuracy of the Authorized Version of the Old Testament" 1911 including the Hebrew psalms.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Donated by Mrs. Betteridge to the seminary library with institutional bookplate noting this on rear pastedown. Recent black moiré silk spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Ex-library with bookplate on rear pastedown as above pressure-stamp on title-page call number in lower margin of second leaf; paper brittle dust- or sometimes soot-soiled at edges and prone to chipping. Replete with scholia this is => a stunning testament to one scholar's study of the O.T. Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz hardcover books
186015893Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1860. Small 8vo. 369 pp. <br><br>An American edition of the Estienne/Stephanus edition of the Greek Testament.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Portrait bookplate of William Ursinus Helffrich on front pastedown and signed by him on the title-page. Late-20th-century booklabel of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Contemporary quarter sheep over cloth sides gilt-stamped on the spine. Large piece chipped from bottom of spine head of spine pulled joints starting from top. Spine rubbed gilt dimmed boards exposed on corners. Extensive pencillings on endpapers. J. B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover books
186934088Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press for the Bible Translation Society 1869. 8vo. 2 ff. 160 pp. <br><br>The text is a Bengali translation from the Greek by William Yates and revised by John Wenger and with extensive commentary in Bengali on three sides of the text. Yates and Wenger were Baptist missionaries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule; North & Nida Book of a Thousand Tongues 1972 134. Publisher's textured dark maroon cloth. Light foxing to endpapers. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press for the Bible Translation Society hardcover books
180953964Edinburgh: Peter Hill 1809. 52 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/2" x 4" x 1/2". Full contemporary brown sheepskin. Signature of James Ogilvy. Some normal rubbing else fine. 52 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/2" x 4" x 1/2". Peter Hill unknown books
182327078London: United Bible Societies 1823. 4to. 705 360 pp. <br><br>Peshitta version in Jacobite script: Old Testament Apocrypha and New Testament. The text is vocalized. The editor was Samuel Lee 17831852. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Darlow & Moule 8986. Recent library brown buckram slightly darkened patch to lower spine; gilt title at top and two gilt rules. Old seminary library pressure-stamp to title-page two additional light rubber-stamps pencilling on verso of title. Clean neat and strong. United Bible Societies 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
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
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
180323697Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 pp. 1 subscriber's list f. <br><br>Translated by Thomas Williams. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Publisher's sheep scuffed and rubbed from age; respined with brown cloth tape and original label laid back on. Two leaves one the half-title separated from spine but present; ex-library with attractive old bookplate old stamp to title-page and half-title.<br>Â Â Â Â Worth having. William W. Woodward hardcover books
180327245Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 2 pp. <br><br>First U.S. edition of Thomas William's translation and commentary: very representative of the linguistic hermeneutical and classical scholarship of its time. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 3817 & 14505. Recent quarter calf and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and three others institutionally pressure-stamped; preface with rubber-stamped numeral and inked annotation. All edges some margins and first and last few leaves darkened by smoke exposure. William W. Woodward hardcover books
182626441New York 1826. Engraved title shorter and probably tipped in without printed title page with Frontispiece Engraved Title "Engraved by J. Palmer Alby. from the original Painting by B.enjamin West Esq." and engravings throughout 3-1216 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked. Engraved title shorter and probably tipped in without printed title page with Frontispiece Engraved Title "Engraved by J. Palmer Alby. from the original Painting by B.enjamin West Esq." and engravings throughout 3-1216 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Hills p. 126 #1 does not collate with American Imprint 23780 unknown books
182817309Bethany Va.: Alexander Campbell 1828. 12mo. 456 pp. <br><br>Second edition of Alexander Campbell's version of the New Testament following the first edition of 1826. Campbell founded the Disciples of Christ movement as well as establishing the long-running Christian Baptist and Millennial Harbinger periodicals after emigrating to America; he also founded Bethany College and served as its first president. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 32363; Hills 647; O'Callaghan 193-94. Contemporary sheep very abraded. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown charge pocket on rear pastedown call number in white on spine pressure stamp on title-page etc. A waterstained copy with some dog-earing of a famous and influential book. Alexander Campbell unknown books
18058610New York: Ronalds & Loudon pr. by Thomas Kirk 1805. 12mo. 335 1 pp. lacking pp.5-8. <br><br>Church of Scotland-approved rendition of the Psalms. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 8008. Contemporary sheep covers framed in single gilt roll; binding rubbed and worn with leather partially lost over spine joints cracked and covers all but separated. Front hinge reinforced. Front pastedown and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscriptions. Pages age-toned with some instances of foxing; lacking pp. 5-8. Ronalds & Loudon (pr. by Thomas Kirk) hardcover books
182720597Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster. 1827. 12mo 15.6 cm 6.2". 496 5156 pp. <br><br>Stereotype edition carefully revised and improved with Copious Indexes. The editor was Samuel Worcester who also selected the added hymns at the back of this volume.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco covers framed in gilt rolls spine gilt extra front cover gilt-stamped John Bradley. All edges marbled. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 31685. Binding as above sides darkened corners and spine rubbed joints cracked with sewing holding but quite fragile. Fly-leaves with early pencilled ownership inscriptions and annotations. Light to moderate foxing. Separate title-page for second section only lacking. Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster. unknown books
184420104Calcutta: Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society at the Baptist Mission Press 1844. 12mo. 53 pp. <br><br>Third edition; translated from the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries. Title-page in Bengali and English but text solely in Bengali. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Darlow & Moule. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covers light boards. Front cover with printed paper title-label; one area of abrasion to front cover and another to back. Institutional bookplates on pastedowns. Clean copy. Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press hardcover books
1808FF181London:: Printed for W. Bent 1808. 1808. Small 8vo. iv viii 142; 144 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco all edges gilt for Sotheran London. Near fine. Provenance: Ownership signatures of Caroline Heathcote; L. Jackman. With a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost of Westminster Abbey signed with his initials in the lower right corner of the painting. Probably painted ca. 1985/86. See: Weber Jeff Annotated Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists & Binders pp. 151-3. Printed for W. Bent, [1808]. unknown books
185940310New York: American Bible Society 1859. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary American green gilt extra morocco a.e.g. Fine smalkl snag at head of spine. 447 ; 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. American Bible Society unknown books
1865FF120London:: Longman Green Longman Roberts and Green 1865. 1865. Small folio. xvi 540 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original binding by Riviere dark green morocco stamped in blind and gold over heavy boards a.e.g.; corners worn but otherwise very good. Bookplate and rubber stamp of Dr. Juan Weiss. With a large fore-edge painting of the body of Christ mourned by the Virgin Mary and an Angel as depicted on page 257 after the painting of the "Pietà " by Francesco Francia 1450-1518. The fore-edge painting is unsigned and probably dates from pre 1980. The original painting is in the National Gallery London. See: Charles Heaton A Concise History of Painting 1893 p. 81. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. hardcover books
1866027465New York: American Bible Society 1866. Octavo. A very scarce New Testament and Psalms issued just after the Civil War. This edition not found in Herbert or OCLC but it was the 16th edition and as noted on the bottom of the title page the American Bible Society issued it this way Test. & Psalms Pica 8vo. The New Testament is in fairly large print 447 pages as is the Psalms 112 pages. The large print makes it easily readable compared to the earlier editions. Bound in publisher's full green morocco decorated and ruled in gilt raised bands with compartments lettered ad decorated in gilt decorative gilt turn ins all edges gilt and original red ribbon marker. Some soiling or staining to binding. A very good copy. American Bible Society unknown books
1841WRCAM45839New York: American Bible Society 1841. 431112pp. Contemporary red pebbled morocco gilt a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Minor foxing mostly to exterior leaves. Very good. Stereotyped edition of the New Testament in a nice contemporary binding. American Bible Society unknown 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
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
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