Bible

1665 · 34786 — Cantabrigiae: Excusum per Joannem Field 1665. 12mo 14 cm 5.5". 1 f. 19 1 755 i.e. 767 1 516 pp. without the initial blank. <br><br>The second English edition of the Septuagint. There are different issues: This a copy of the one with the third word of the Greek title readiing "Diathche" and not "Diathke" and with the printer's device showing the man holding the sun in his left hand. Thus this is Darlow and Moule issue "B." => Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of one of the issues of this edition.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Manuscript ownership inscription of John Ray dated 1716 on retained fly-leaf; ownership signature of Robert L. Wilson New York 1818 on title-page; gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson dated 1829. Later in the Howell Bible Collection Pacific School of Religion properly released.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: American binding of dark blue goat richly gilt with wide floral border on covers and spine distinctively gilt using rules and floral roll. Board edges with a gilt roll; turn-ins gilt tooled. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt supra-libros of Barzillai Slosson as above. Unsigned.<br>Â Â Â Â Barzillai Slosson may have been related to the lawyer of the same name who was active in Kent CT at the end of the 18th century and into the fourth decade of the 19th whose account books are in the Yale Law Library; perhaps the Barzillai who graduated from Columbia College in 1818 and later moved to Geneva NY where he was active and successful in business and civic affairs. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. ed. B2719. Darlow & Moule; 4702; ESTC R236848; Sowerby Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson 1473. Binding as above lightly rubbed. Pages closely cropped in the 19th-century rebinding and some initial or final letters touched or lost. Very good. Excusum per Joannem Field unknown books