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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
32730n. p. n. d. Ca 1940s. Buff printed wrappers stapled. Imperfect. Lacks final 3 leaves & rear wrapper. Fair. 5 leaves printed recto only. Unpaginated. One image per leaf. 2-3/4" x 3-3/4" <br/><br/> unknown books
1707265534Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1707. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers rubbed joints tender but cords holding; onternally fine. Title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre engraved frontispiece potrait of Queen Anne preceding Dedication 8 full-page engravings. 1 vols. 8vo. The first eight books only of the famous edition of the Septuagint here in the same type as the folio version but issued in octavo format "to prevent the book from being piratically printed in Germany." Darlow & Moule. The volume contains the first eight books ending with the Book of Ruth. Darlow & Moule 4734 E Theatro Sheldoniano unknown books
1653255179Londoni: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye sub signo Campanae in Cometerio D. Pauli 1653. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England. 8 1279 1; 186 2 pp. plus terminal blank. 1 vols. 4to signed in 8's 195 x 143mm. Old vellum titled and dated in manuscript on the spine. Terminal leaves slightly soiled two ownership inscriptions on front endsheets and small Lincoln's Inn release/sale stamp vellum a bit handsoiled occasional modest foxing and dusting along upper margins but a very good copy. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England. 8 1279 1; 186 2 pp. plus terminal blank. 1 vols. 4to signed in 8's 195 x 143mm. The Uncommon Quarto Printing. The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England with the Scholia the scarce printing in quarto format. The text is derived from the Sixtine text and edited by John Biddle 1615-1662 the Unitarian controversialist who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious views. <br/>The SCHOLIA . has a separate title-leaf register and pagination. The same setting was imposed in both quarto and octavo formats the latter with rules separating the columns of text. In regard to institutional representation the edition in quarto is much more uncommon than that in octavo: ESTC locates 4 copies of the quarto printing in North America as opposed to 19 of the octavo printing. Occasionally Daniel's reprint of the New Testament is bound up with the octavo printings to form a complete Bible. Brunet cites that format but notes the sale of a copy on "Gr. Pap." presumably a copy in this format. Over the last 35 years ABPC records sale of one copy in quarto 1999 and four in octavo. ESTC R12599 & R236817; Wing B2718 octavo edition only; Darlow & Moule 4692; Brunet I:863 Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye, sub signo Campanae in Cometerio D. Pauli unknown books
1731LV1890Amsterdam:: R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith 1731. 1731. 4to. xii 750 pp. Half title engraved title printer’s device title printed in red and black main body of text printed in double columns separate half-title-page: Davidis Regis et Prophetae Psalmi . . . Z2; Liber Proverbiorum Salomonis Zzz1; upper edge of pp. 242-254 nicked. Some pages misnumbered. Contemporary full calf gilt-stamped spine and red leather spine label 6 raised bands; front cover detached rear cover hanging from 1 cord spine missing pieces – needs rebinding. Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to title-page and following page. As is. This is the final 1731 work of Leclerc’s commentaries on the Bible that began in 1693 with his Book of Genesis being in particular the sections on Jacob Psalms of David Solomon Proverbs etc. "Founding principally on the position that more recent objects are referred to in the Canon than such as were known in the time of Ezra Leclerc was of opinion that the collection of the Canon is due to the zealous endeavours of pious individuals who had preserved the separate parts of it until the reading of the Prophets along with the Law came into use in the age of the Maccabees which rendered the collecting of the whole necessary" Havernick p. 33. Chetham’s Library and the Cambridge copies both have 3 folding plates but no evidence of plates maps in 15 other copies listed on Copac. No plates are in this copy. REFERENCES: BM compact ed. vol. 3 p. 45; Havernick Heinrich Andreas C. A General Historico-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament Tr. by W.L. Alexander Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1852. R. & J. Westenios & Gul. Smith, 1731. hardcover books
1983220538Market Drayton Tern Press 1983. 1983. Small 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Nicholas Parry; pictorial title page printed in red black and tan. Original gilt stamped black calf over pictorial salmon boards. Very good. #25/175 numered copies signed by Parry on the limitation page. Signed by Authors. Hardcover. [Market Drayton] Tern Press [1983]. hardcover books
23027Italy early 14th century. Script: Gothic miniscule 2 columns initials in alternate red and blue. Text: a portion of Psalm 118. 160 x 105 mm. <br/><br/> unknown books
199249237London: The Olive Tree 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 120pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The entire text reproduced from Lupton's calligraphic manuscript. The Olive Tree unknown books
193033601np 1930. Oblong 16mo original illustrated wrappers 8pp. Near Fine. <br/><br/> A common theme for these Bibles: respectable married man tells a young woman he wants to "buy a little of your kiester if we could get it over before my wife comes back from the store." The activities progress in graphic detail.<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
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
1485EPL041485. Paperback. Good. From a German Bible circa 1485. Exquisite examples of hand-colored prints of the period these illustrations would have ornamented the Bible text nicely. Small wormhole on Christ Childs halo otherwise a good pair. Mounted. Size: 130 x 60mm each. <br/><br/> paperback books
EPL05Paperback. Very Good. Two leaves containing full-page hand-colored woodcuts of Christs "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" and Scenes from the "Life of the Virgin" Joachim and Anna at Golden Gate Virgin Marys Birth Annunciation to Joachim and Joachims offerings rejected at the Altar taken from a Dutch Bible with text on verso 15th century. Size: 245 x 180mm each. <br/><br/> paperback books
158068068A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances" BIBLE IN ENGLISH. BARKER Christopher. HERREY Robert F. compiler. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue Caldean Greeke and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables for breuitie sake is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. 1580. First Edition. One of two issues of the same year priority unknown. Our year based upon the issue points as shown by the British Library: "with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the"" ESTC S125409. Quarto 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 236 x 185 mm. 92 leaves. A8-L8 M4. With preface signed "Thine in the Lord Robart F. Herrey" and dated "xxii of December. An. Domini. 1578." We could find no other complete copies of this first edition of "Concordance" at auction in the past 50 years. Although this comes separately The Herrey "Concordance" is generally found issued with a Barker Geneva Bible starting with the date 1580. There were several printings of this "Concordance" starting in 1580 and going into the next decade however only the present copy and one other printing were issued with the two versions of the Barker Bibles of 1580. Present copy with Signatures: A-L M and with The "A" of signature mark "A4" under the "t" of "the". This version was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 123. Another version of the same year with Signatures: A-C D-V was issued with the 1580 Bible Darlow & Moule 124. Bound separately in modern full brown morocco. Covers ruled in triple blind and with a central "Cross" devise in blind on both covers. Newer endpapers. Some occasional ink small hand marginalia. Edges of leaves a bit frayed. A stain to bottom margin of leaves H2-H3. A paper repair to bottom margin of final leaf M4 not affecting text. Overall very good. According to Herbert and Darlow & Moule " The Concordances which form an essential part of the volume of the Bible were compiled by Robart F. Herrey who is identified with Robert Harrison the Norfolk Brownist 9d. 1585" Darlow & Moule 123. ESTC S125409 . Herbert 165. STC 13228b.1 . HBS 68068. $2850 Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. unknown books
155539566Basileae: per Ioannem Oporinum colophon: 1555. 8vo 15.9 cm 6.25". 16 341 7 pp. <br><br>Sole edition of these Greek paraphrased psalms done by Paul Dolscius while he was serving as a rector in Halle. Melanchthon was a great supporter of Dolscius 152689 whose translation work was so proficient that at one point his authorial byline on the Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession was assumed to be merely a pseudonym for the great reformer himself.<br>Â Â Â Â The text here is simply printed with the Latin preface in roman and the main text in Greek using single columns; a 5-line decorative initial and a 7-line inhabited one showing two kings in profile complete the work. This is now an uncommon edition with searches of Worldcat COPAC USTC and NUC Pre-1956 revealing only three U.S. institutions reporting ownership.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: An inked ownership stamp of notable 19th-century English bibliomaniac Richard Heber 17741833 reading "Bibliotheca Heberiana" appears on the front free endpaper; Thomas Frognall Dibdin added this stamp to select rare books in Heber's collection following the collector's death. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Bibliotheca Palatina F5048/F5049; VD16 B3122; USTC 626665. Not in Adams; not in Darlow & Moule. On Dolscius see: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie online. 19th-century half calf and paste papercovered boards spine with gilt rolls and green leather gilt title-label all edges stained blue; rubbed slight loss of leather on front joint outside and corners a few small spots and leather repairs isolated glue action to endpapers. Light age-toning with occasional slivers of marginal staining possibly thanks to the blue edge stain one interior tear touching letters and two marginal spots. Provenance indicia as above small round paper shelflabel on spine a few bibliographical notes pencilled on endpapers. => A skillfully produced work with a pleasing provenance. per Ioannem Oporinum 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
1973197617<p>First edition thus. Tall octavo. Upper cover drawing by Alberto Giacometti. 2 folded 4to sheets of Charter Oak paper stitched. Fine fresh. No signatures or bookplates. Half title: Ecclesiastes XII. One of 50 copies.</p> Black Rock Press paperback books
1910228524New York Bloch Publishing Company 1910. 1910. Small 8vo. 6 page preface. Original limp black leatherette stamped in gilt on the spine and stamped in gilt "George Dewey Cukor" on the upper cover front cover detached. Good. 1244 pages. Signed and inscribed on the presentation page: "Presented to George Dewey Cukor for confirmation on May 13 1914 at Temple Beth El by his parents." From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front pastedown. Soft cover. Good. New York, Bloch Publishing Company, 1910. hardcover books
163324066London: Pr. by Augustine Mathewes one of the assignes of Hester Ogden 1633. Folio 33.3 cm 13.25". Frontis. engr. t.-p. 58 912 18 25 1 206 2 17 1 blank pp. <br><br>When the Jesuit scholars at Rheims succeeded in printing their Catholic translation of the New Testament into English first edition 1582 the event affected various English Protestant scholars in different ways: Some were offended or outraged others intrigued and yet others spurred to action. William Fulke of Pembroke College Cambridge was among those offended outraged and spurred: In 1589 he produced the first edition of his work attempting to refute the Rheims New Testament. His approach however which was to print the Rheims NT in parallel columns with the Bishops' NT the then accepted version of the Church of England supplying accompanying notes and explanations had unforeseen consequences.<br>Â Â Â Â As Darlow and Moule comment "by printing the Rheims Testament in full side by side with the Bishops' version Fulke secured for the former a publicity which it would not otherwise have obtained and was indirectly responsible for the marked influence which Rheims exerted on the Bible of 1611." Alan Thomas elaborates by observing that "many a dignified or felicitous phrase was silently lifted by the editors of King James's Version and thus passed into the language" Great Books and Book Collectors p. 108.<br>Â Â Â Â This is the fourth edition "wherein are many grosse absurdities corrected." A portrait of William Fulke precedes the engraved title-page both done by William Marshall. The Biblical text is followed as issued by Fulke's Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue against the Manifold Cavils Frivolous Quarrels and Impudent Slanders of Gregorie Martin. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â STC 2nd ed. 2947; Darlow & Moule 371; ESTC S121246; Herbert 480. Contemporary mottled calf covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label all edges gilt; binding rubbed leather moderately acid-pitted joints cracked rectangle of leather lost at upper inner corner of front cover. Lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped; free endpapers excised; lower outer corners lightly waterstained at rear; pages otherwise slightly age-toned but notably clean. A sound good copy. Pr. by Augustine Mathewes on[e] of the assignes of Hester Ogden hardcover books