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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
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
1813WRCAM45253Somerset Pa.: Friedrich Goeb 1813. 45276621692pp. Large thick quarto. Contemporary calf with clasps. Minor wear to extremities. Contemporary notations in German on first two preliminary leaves. Some light scattered foxing and toning. A near fine copy. A lovely copy of this highly important German- American Bible notable for being the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. Goeb emigrated from Germany in 1804 settling in western Pennsylvania and establishing himself as a printer first in Chambersburg and later in Somerset in far western Pennsylvania. Printed in two columns this Bible includes the Old and New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha. A handsome copy in original condition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 27883. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 2004. Friedrich Goeb unknown books
15192682Lyon: Jacques I Mareschal for Simon Vincent 1519. 8vo 180 x 126 mm. 30 500 54 pp. with pagination errors. Title and first table printed in red and black text in two columns with printed marginalia indices and summary in 3 columns. Colophon on fol. RR4v. Publisher's woodcut device Baudrier no. 2 on title and final verso full-page woodcut showing the six days of Creation within ornamental border historiated woodcut initials throughout; red paragraph marks to opening page and red highlighting to the facing woodcut. Mainly faint marginal dampstain in upper margins light discoloration to outer margins. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled calf over wooden boards sides with leafy roll-tool border enclosing central panel with intersecting triple fillets forming a saltire design the compartments filled with a repeated foliate tool arranged symmetrically one of two fore-edge clasps two catches; many deckle edges preserved worn a few small chips to leather pastedown endpapers renewed. Provenance: early ownership inscriptions on title: Mrr Cornelius Adamus ter Borch; and Siba Lÿken; contemporary marginal notes and some text markings crosses in margins and underlinings in first few books Genesis-Deuteronomy; abundant 17th and/or 18th-century philological annotations in Genesis and Exodus and in the indices including full page of notes on blank page 2E5v.A complete portable Bible printed in very small types containing an ample scholarly apparatus and finding aids for the use of theology students and scholars; this copy with contemporary annotations and in a contemporary blind-tooled calf binding probably Flemish. This compact glossed Bible densely and economically printed with no break between the Old and New Testaments is enlivened by hundreds of historiated woodcut initials from woodcut alphabets designed by Guillaume Leroy who also designed the six-part full-page woodcut of the Creation. Mareschal's useful "pocket" Bibles were bestsellers this being the fourth of six octavo editions from his press. They were among the first Bible editions to include a rhyming mnemonic Biblical summary by the minorite friar Franciscus Gothi in which each four-line verse summarizes a Biblical chapter. Occupying here the final two quires and called for in the colophon it is not recorded by Baudrier or Gültlingen. Possibly buyers had the choice of including it or not in their copies. Otherwise the text of Mareschal's octavo Bibles follows that of the Bible printed in Basel in 1509 by Johann Petri and Froben using the text edited by the Dominican Alberto Castellano and supplying for the first time marginal notes citing canon law. The apparatus includes four tables and a glossary of Hebrew names. As in the Petri editions a six-line commendatory poem by Matthias Sambucellus is printed on the title here with the first word of the last line incorrectly given as "Omne" instead of "Omine."The publisher Simon Vincent belonged to Lyon's powerful booksellers' guild the Compagnie des Libraires whose members helped Mareschal during his early years impressed by his skill conscientiousness and sobriety "a rare trait among printers of this period" notes Baudrier qualities which contrasted markedly with those of the printer Michel Topie whose press Mareschal had acquired in 1512 Baudrier 11:383.USTC 145003; Adams B-997; Pettegree & Walsby French Vernacular Books III: 57271. Darlow & Moule II: 6093 note; Baudrier Bibliographie lyonnaise 11: 401 and pp. 380 397 & 448; Gültlingen Bibliographie des livres imprimés à Lyon 2:209 no. 56. Jacques I Mareschal [for Simon Vincent] 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
18957527New York: American Bible Society 1895. Hard Cover. First edition of this Bible volume I only; folio 14" x 13" 164 leaves embossed in the New York Point Alphabet for the Blind which is a system of tactile raised dots similar to Braille. Contemporary 3/4 calf over tan cloth covered boards spine ruled in gilt; spine label is absent. New York Point for the Blind was invented by William Bell Wait 1839-1916 educator for the Blind as an alternative to the "Line Letter" system consisting of raised letters of the standard alphabet which was in use in the late 19th Century and lasted for several decades. But Braille had been invented by Louis Braille in 1824 but fell into disuse only to be revived in the early 20th Century and Braille remains today the standard in reading and writing for the Blind throughout the world. Internally quite clean with the embossed dots in very good condition; small loss at head of spine and corners worn through; a very good copy now quite scarce on the market. <br/><br/> American Bible Society hardcover books
181319401New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood 1813. Second Wood edition. A trifle foxed; some light rubbing; a handsome copy in very good condition. 32mo 2.06 x 1.31 inches original green morocco spine stamped in gilt boards ruled in gilt 254 pages. Frontis illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A26: "Illustrations as in A17 Wood 1811 but type reset. Printed and Sold by S. Wood, unknown books
181119402New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood 1811. First Wood edition. Joints somewhat rubbed a little rubbed along the edges and corners; some scratching to the upper board; text-block a little soiled; a very good copy. 32mo 1.94 x 1.25 inches original polished calf gilt ruled spine 254 pages. Frontis illus. Adomeit Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A17; Welch 856.1: "American variant 1 of English version 2 no. 855 Harris ca. 1806. Printed and Sold by S. Wood, unknown books
1829839091829. BIBLE. BIBLE HISTORIES ILLUSTRATED BY FIFTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS REPRESENTING SOME OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS RECORDED IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. London: R. Ackermann 1829. viii 180 pp. 16mo. green cloth with paper spine label. Spine sunned label slightly chipped. Lacks front flyleaf. Some offset to text from plates. Plate 33 nearly detached. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Beautiful small engravings. unknown books
193530793Bergamo 1935. hardcover. very good-. With 160 plates 17 mounted and in color. Interior is nice and clean. Thick small folio rust cloth rubbed; one signature loose. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche 1935. Very good-<br/><br/> unknown books
1930253119San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book 1930. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition. Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original half leather and paper boards spine gilt. Bottom corners and head and foot of spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" printed for John Howell Books by the Grabhorn Press and containing an essay by Edwin Grabhorn on typography in America in 1776. This volume contains an original leaf from a copy of the Aitken Bible one of the most celebrated American bibles being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged to the Royal Printer and the colonies were supplied entirely with bibles printed in England. The only Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible in Algonquian issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. With the Revolution this monopoly naturally ended and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken a Philadelphia printer undertook the task producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production the Aitken Bible is often referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution" Grabhorn Bibliography 131 Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book unknown books
200140835Huntington Beach CA: Wycliffe Bible Translators 2001. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". vi 624 pp. 18 unnumbered pages of plates; illus. some color color maps. <br><br>First translation of the New Testament in Abidji a member of the Niger-Kordofanian family. Translated by R.L. Vick et al. Maps on endpapers. In dark green printed vinyl wrappers. Wycliffe Bible Translators unknown books
1815810691815. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. AN ABRIDGED STATEMENT OF THE LEADING TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY; WITH A DIGEST OF THE VIEWS OF THE SOCIETY AND A NOTICE OF ITS CHIEF PATRONS. n.p. - London/n.p. 1815. Disbound from the Pamphleteer. pp. 269-280. 8vo. disbound. Pages in very good condition. Interesting list of translations of the Bible in foreign languages. a. unknown books
17001002658London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil 1700. First edition of this verse translation of the Song of Songs by Joseph Stennett 1663-1713 the first important Baptist hymnwriter in England: "Thy Lips my Spouse that move with skill / Drops like the Hony-comb distil. / Hony and Milk's beneath thy Tongue / Which feeds the Weak as well as strong." In his scholarly preface Stennett is quick to assure readers that the Hebrew text is not about sexual desire despite appearances: "some have denied that Solomon wrote it by Divine Inspiration; and make his Design to be only that of celebrating his Amours with Pharoah's Daughter or some other person." The passion of the bridegroom and the bride is to be understood however as a divine allegory of Christ's love for his church the same "mystical Espousals" found in the 45th Psalm which Stennett also translates here. Wing B2633AC ESTC R212810. We locate four institutional holdings in North America Emory Huntington NYPL and the American Baptist Historical Society; ESTC adds Harvard but that appears to be an error. A scarce early English translation of the most lyrical book of the Old Testament in a handsome contemporary binding. Small octavo measuring 6.5 x 4 inches: xxiv 40. Contemporary full red paneled morocco gilt raised bands spine compartments decorated in gilt marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Old ink prices to verso of front free endpaper. Dampstaining to binder's flyleaves not affecting text light wear to binding joints starting at head of spine. Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil 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
182819163Cooperstown: Stereotyped Printed and Sold by H. & E. Phinney 1828. An early Phinney printing. Somewhat worn with a little chipping; small bit of the upper outer corner of the final leaf torn; in good condition. Original pictorial self-wrappers 5.25 x 3.63 inches 1-5 8-30 pages. Illus. A fairly nice copy of the Phinney cheap edition of the New Hieroglyphical Bible this a strangely uncommon printing. Phinney had also issued an earlier one with an 1824 publication date as well as a number from 1829 onward. The pagination here agrees with that of other Phinney editions. Stereotyped, Printed and Sold by H. & E. Phinney, unknown books
1820WRCLIT78300Hartford: Published by Oliver D. Cooke 1820. 5616pp. 12mo. Linen backed printed decorated boards. Early ink ownership inscription on front and rear free endsheets some small paper loss at gutter of rear free endsheet uniformly browned but a sound copy. Denoted on the upper board the "Seventh Edition" although OCLC locates only 1818 and 1820 Hartford printings by Cooke and his associates. While the title-page imprint is 1820 the imprint on the upper board is dated 1821. No edition under Cooke's imprint is listed in the 1820 and 1821 volumes of American Imprints. OCLC: 41274455. Published by Oliver D. Cooke hardcover books
181817093Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1818. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled binding lightly shaken gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement page 4. This seems to be the first Oliver and Boyd printing of a hieroglyphic Bible and the second Edinburgh printing after the Doig and Sterling edition of 1814. The accepted publicaton date for this Bible is 1818; three other known copies are known to have been issued either in quarter leather and marbled paper boards or in printed card covers. Our copy is in what is clearly publisher's cloth with gilt blocked on the upper board. This combination is unknown before 1826. It is likely then that the textblock while printed earlier was bound after 1826. Exceedingly scarce. Protected in a custom clamshell box. Oliver & Boyd hardcover books
1611108233Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11â€. London: Robert Barker 1611. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11†printed on both recto and verso in two columns with woodcut initials. Foxing to outer margins top-edge has some tears and curling; good. § From either the first or second state of the first edition. Ecclesiasticus: 27:1-30 28: 1-26 29:1-6. Robert Barker unknown books
1613108231Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11â€. London: Robert Barker 1613. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11†printed on both recto and verso in two columns with woodcut initials. Mounted; very good. § From the second edition with 72 lines as opposed to 52 for the first edition. “John: 11:1 Christ raiseth Lazarus.†One of the most well known stories of the Bible also containing the shortest sentence in the Bible: “37. Christ wept.†Robert Barker unknown books