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1867réf. 20121Zurich: Leo Worl 1867. Large square folio. 26 17 pp. 17 facsim. part col. Facsimile with scholarly study and apparatus of the block book in the library of gymnasium at Grossherzogl in Konstanz Germany. The facsimile is in color. The first edition a second appearing in 1892. 19th-century half brown morocco abraded. Ex-library with call number on spine pressure stamps on title-page and some library pencilling. Else a good copy. Leo Worl unknown books
1831réf. 7513Exeter N.H.: James Derby 1831. 32mo 11.1 cm 4.375". 259 1 blank pp. lacks the frontis. Stereotyped by the publisher" this 32mo pocket New Testament is printed in two columns in small type set 16 lines to the inch. Binding: Straight-grained roan covers gilt-ruled and spine gilt extra. 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
1837réf. 25250New York: T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church pr. by J. Collord 1837. 8vo 22.5 cm 8.9". 734 pp. 219/20 lacking. Commentary by John Wesley the founding father of Methodism on the New Testament including the Book of Revelation. The text is "that of the Common English Translation with some of Bengel's readings incorporated" according to O'Callaghan. Having originally appeared in 1754 the Notes were here published by Mason and Lane who in collaboration with printer James Collord produced numerous Methodist treatises and Bible editions. Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition. American Imprints 1837 43174; O'Callaghan 253. This ed. not in Hills; not in Wright. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Title-page and first and last sections with lower portions of leaves waterstained though not darkly; foxing throughout. Significant portions of the two leaves bearing pp. 21518 torn diagonally away with loss of most notes and some text of John; leaf bearing pp. 219/20 lacking. T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church (pr. by J. Collord) hardcover books
1831réf. 22266Oxford: Pr. at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood & Co. 1831. 24mo. 528 ff. A lovely gift Bible presented in the 19th century to one James Henry Newman by five members of his immediate family. Binding: Contemporary embossed rich cordovan-colored morocco cathedral binding featuring inter alii the Holy Ghost in Pentacostal doveform the Agnus Dei and stained/leaded glass "windows" both pointed and rosette. Spine additionally with gilt-stamped title; turn-ins with blind-roll design. All edges brightly gilt. Not in Herbert. Binding as above in beautiful condition. First front fly-leaf with early inked familial gift inscription including an explanation of one brother's having opted out of the group present!; second front fly-leaf with inked dedicatory poem. Pr. at the University Press by Samuel Collingwood & Co. unknown books
1885réf. 6559New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1885. 8vo. 2 ff. 74 pp. 1 blank f. Stapled: in original gray-green printed wrappers chipped with rear wrapper lacking and front wrapper partially torn along joint. Corners bumped. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1923réf. 20518Boston: R. H. Hinkley 1923. 8vo. 14 vols. 70 plts. This handsome and much-sought edition of the King James Bible was printed at the Merrymount Press and limited to 2574 sets: 1000 on wove paper 1000 on laid paper 488 on handmade paper and 86 on Japan paper. This set is #233 printed on handmade paper and contains 70 fine plates usually 5 per volume and mostly photogravures after paintings. The edition was designed for smooth reading and the text is set in ordinary paragraphs without chapter and verse numbers. This work has a complicated and as yet not fully explained printing history. It was probably first printed in 1904 with sheets reissued or reprinted at various times in the subsequent two decades. Even the name of the publisher on the title-page varies; "The Grolier Society" sometimes appears in place of Hinkley. Binding: Publisher's quarter tan pigskin spine leather over deeply grained polished bare wooden boards with bevelled edges on the three outer sides in the style of incunable and 16th-century books. Raised bands on spines; spine panels tooled and lettered in blind. Unusual and attractive. Smith 209; Hills 2155 for the 1904 edition and explanation of reissues. Bound as above with top edge gilt other edges uncut. Spines darkened and some chipped. One cover detached and present. Much enjoyment. R. H. Hinkley hardcover books
1835réf. 19369New 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. 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. Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco covers framed in gilt roll spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations. 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
1803réf. 27245Philadelphia: William W. Woodward 1803. 8vo. 354 2 pp. First U.S. edition of Thomas William's translation and commentary: very representative of the linguistic hermeneutical and classical scholarship of its time. 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
1841réf. 7995Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1841. 4to 28.7 cm 11.3". Frontis. 576 4 99 3 579768 pp.; 10 plts. One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York. This edition has the Apocrypha added and 11 woodcut plates in total; the New Testament has a separate title-page. The family record leaves here are mostly unused but bear a few names with dates from 1845 through 1899. Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of 20th-century collector Michael Zinman. Hills English Bible in America 1100. Binding see: Wolf From Gothic Windows to Peacocks 126. Contemporary goat embossed in arabesque patterns over a diapered background with central diamond-shaped medallion spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and compartments gilt extra; worn and abraded with portion of front cover faded leather rubbed over joints and extremities spine leather cracking. Hinges tender. Front free endpaper lacking frontispiece recto used for pencilled list of names one plate with inked notation on verso and another with pencilled ones. One other plate with pencilled notes in margins and pencil and ink markings throughout text. Some leaves browned. H. & E. Phinney hardcover books
1805réf. 8610New York: Ronalds & Loudon pr. by Thomas Kirk 1805. 12mo. 335 1 pp. lacking pp.5-8. Church of Scotland-approved rendition of the Psalms. 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
1860réf. 15833New York & Cincinnati: Benziger Brothers 1860-1869. Folio. 9 ff. 1244 2 371 pp.; illus. German Catholic Bible. Title-page printed in red and black four leaves in back with ornate borders and blank areas for family information. "Von Joseph Franz von Allioli. Mit Approbation des apostolischen Stuhles. Mit Holzschnitten nach Zeichnungen der ersten Künstler Deutschlands." Text printed in double columns. Profusely illustrated. 19th-century sheep spine gilt-lettered; front cover detached back joint starting binding rubbed as usual loss of leather on corners and some loss on edges. Foxing throughout. Tear and slight tattering to pp. 17/18 tear extending into text and costing several letters marginal tear to pp. 23/24 and 25/26 pp. 371 tattered at margins without affecting text. Benziger Brothers hardcover books
1864réf. 13347London: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1864. 4to 29.5 cm 11.75". Frontis. iiixvi 540 pp.; illus. First edition and one of 250 large paper copies printed of this lavishly illustrated quintessentially Victorian Bible. The decorations and initials were drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw who also supervised the engravings of the illustrations after Leonardo da Vinci Titian Raphael and other Italian masters; engravers involved with the project included F. Anderson James Cooper Messrs. Dalziel W.T. Green William Linton and many others all of whom labored mightily in this attempt to reproduce the feel of a 16th-century production. Binding: Signed reddish-brown morocco binding by Root & Son with covers and spine gilt extra; extremely wide and handsome turn-ins elaborately gilt tooled. Provenance: Front fly-leaf with attractively inked gift inscription to the Rev. John Francis O'Hern the third Bishop of Rochester NY dated 1929. Not in Darlow & Moule. Leather with light restoration; front pastedown with traces of a now-absent bookplate. Small area of front joint outside expertly resealed/repaired; the weight of this substantial volume dictates storage on the volume's back not its lower edge. => A lavishly produced Victorian New Testament in an impressive binding. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green hardcover books
1828réf. 17309Bethany Va.: Alexander Campbell 1828. 12mo. 456 pp. 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. 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
1837réf. 15822Cooperstown N.Y.: H. & E. Phinney 1837. 4to 28 cm 11". Frontis. 768 pp.; 10 plts. One of the Phinneys' series of stereotyped quarto Bibles of which 138 editions were published between August 1822 and winter 1848. The Phinney brothers Henry and Elihu carried on the business their father Elihu Phinney had started in 1795; the elder Phinney had established a press bookshop and newspaper after resettling in Cooperstown from Connecticut. James Fenimore Cooper a delegate to the 1816 convention that formed the American Bible Society learned to set type in his shop for fun Hills 69. The younger Phinneys however were not to be restricted to one shop: They sold their stock which consisted of their own publications together with books brought in from Philadelphia and New York from large travelling wagons and established a "bookboat" on the Erie Canal that enabled them to reach a larger portion of western New York. The New Testament here has a separate title-page and the volume is llustrated with 10 wood engraved plates including two frontispieces. Hills English Bible in America 972. Contemporary sheep gilt-lettered on the spine. Binding rubbed with abrasions along edges and joints spine pulled at head. Ex-library with white-lettered shelf number on spine. Light foxing. One plate with tear from bottom edge not intruding upon illustration. Small hole to one leaf with loss of several letters of marginal notes. H. & E. Phinney unknown books
1808réf. 8633Baltimore: Henry S. Keatinge 1808. 12mo. 458 pp. Compiled from the writings of the most eminent historians divines and commentators. Shaw & Shoemaker 15257. Contemporary sheep spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; binding worn and abraded with leather cracking over spine. Some offsetting to endpapers; pages age-toned. Henry S. Keatinge hardcover books
1831réf. 8254Boston: Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press Francis Jenks proprietor for Gray & Bowen 1831. 4to 27.7 cm 10.875". In 2 vols. I: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 915 1 blank pp. II: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 804 1 blank pp. 1 blank f. Handsomely and plainly printed in two columns of large type without notes this two-volume Bible is as remarkable for the becoming simplicity of its layout as it is for its handsome binding of red leather gilt. Binding: Boston binding Straight-grained red morocco amply gilt in the Regency style: Front corners with a wide gilt-stamped foliate frame enclosing a narrow blind-ruled frame. Spine with raised bands a broad foliate gilt roll on each band second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered within rest with gilt frames. Gilt inner dentelles and board edges. Red and white silk head bands. Marbled endpapers in a stone pattern. All edges gilt. Provenance: Presentation inscription on front fly-leaves: Preston S. and Francis M. Lincoln to their grandmother Hannah Shepard 1835. Small booklabel of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Hills 733; O'Callaghan 208. Binding as above edges and joints with minor rubbing front joint of vol. II opening from foot bindings showing a few light or small abrasions; overall clean and attractive. Lacking frontispiece for vol. I and possibly a frontispiece for vol. II: O'Callaghan gives this edition as having a frontispiece for each volume while Hills cites two copies one this size with a frontispiece for vol. I only and a large paper copy with a frontispiece for each volume. A few closed tears into text without loss; some pages especially towards the end of vol. I shallowly chipped without loss of impression; light foxing throughout with occasional darker browning or staining. Inked ownership inscription on the recto of the first fly-leaf of each volume. [Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press, Francis Jenks, proprietor, for] Gray & Bowen hardcover books
1504réf. 2666New York: Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees pour la Société Biblique Americaine D. Fanshaw Imprimeur 183940. 8vo. 819 1 blank pp. 261 1 blank pp. Only the second edition in the U.S. of the Martin edition of the French Bible. Prior to 1835 the American Bible Society favored using the text of the 1805 French Bible. Binding: This copy is exquisitely bound in full black leather in good imitation of morocco elaborately stamped in gold on the covers forming a five-element frame or border with gilt tooling on the board edges and with gilt inner dentelles. The spine has slightly raised bands and elaborate gold stamping in its compartments. => This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color. Provenance: The name "Sarah B. Leverett" is lettered in gilt on the front cover and the same name is given in precise gothic calligraphy on the front free endpaper. Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto dulling outermost elements of gilt border only on front cover just at those corners. Evidence to endpapers of the volume's once having been sewn into a chemise or wrapper; old notes just discernable not really readable in a minute hand on front free endpaper i.e. "behind" Sarah's name. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages only. => The whole very attractive and well preserved. Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees, pour la Société Biblique Americaine, D. Fanshaw, Imprimeur hardcover books
1632réf. 26102London: Robert Barker.by the assignes of John Bill 1632. Folio 34 cm 13.4". 15 507 1 ff. lacking 7 prelim. ff. preceded by Speed John. The genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures according to euery familie and tribe. London: F. Kingston 1632. Folio. 2 34 pp. with Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold & Hopkins. 1632. The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter. London: Pr. by R. Badger for the Co. of Stationers 1632. Folio. 2 114 pp. lacking 8 index pp. Attractive folio King James Bible set in roman in double columns ruled in red throughout with woodcut headpieces and decorative capitals. Darlow and Moule suggest that this edition was actually printed in early 1633 as a number of copies are recorded as having their title-page dates altered by hand to read 1633 as is the case here. The Apocrypha are present with the blank space on the last page of Malachi filled with an early inked "account of the several books in the Apocrypha." => The Psalter following the Bible includes music. The O.T. title-page is engraved and signed very faintly in this example by William here "Guilielmus" Hole and is framed by an elaborate architectural border displaying the coats of arms of the 12 tribes of Israel and portraits of the 12 Apostles. => The recto of the list of books is a full-page engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden surrounded by animals. The New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1632 with an ornate wood-engraved border featuring Justice and Truth along with the British lion and unicorn and various architectural motifs. The volume opens with two fly-leaves bearing genealogical records in several different early inked hands with dates ranging from 1743 through 1847. A copy of Speed's Genealogies precedes the Old Testament while the "Description of Canaan" with map that should close the Genealogies has been bound in after the O.T. title-page. ESTC S122379; Darlow & Moule 359; STC 2nd ed. 2298.5. Speed: ESTC S126191; STC 2nd ed. 23039a.4. Psalms: ESTC S122383; STC 2nd ed. 2633. Recent mottled calf covers fillet-framed and panelled in blind with decorative inner blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands. Front cover with two slender scrapes; title-page with date altered in ink to 1633 as above. Front fly-leaves with margins repaired; Description of Canaan with inner margin reinforced. Bible seven preliminary leaves lacking calendar dedication preface and list of books all present; Psalms four final index leaves only lacking; foliation slightly erratic. Varying degrees of age-toning occasional light waterstaining some margins with faint smudging; in fact and in sum a nice volume to hold and work with. Robert Barker...by the assignes of John Bill hardcover books
1837réf. 24118Andover & New York: Gould and Newman 1837. 8vo. 2 vols. I: 584 pp. II: x 2 584 pp. From the latest London edition. In two volumes. Publisher's gray ribbed cloth stamped in blind on boards and in gilt on spines. Boards rubbed and bumped. Ex-library: Each volume with call number label on spine bookplate rubber-stamps and charge pocket. Gould and Newman hardcover books
1831réf. 14123Boston: Gray & Bowen 1831. 8vo. xv 1 blank 260 pp. Publisher's cloth spine sunned and brittle with piece of cloth chipping off. Ex-library with bookplate; call number on spine in white; charge pocket and date due slip at rear. Foxing. Gray & Bowen hardcover books
1823réf. 4731Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless 1823. 4to 29.5 cm 11.5". 2 blank frontis. 2 1 blank 3-4 6 5-570 frontis. 2 573-748 749-770 18 54 2 blank pp.; 10 plts. including 2 frontispieces and 8 full-page engravings. Large thick quarto Bible. "Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition" stated on title-page. No date stated. O'Callaghan says that "The first edition of this Bible was printed in 1823. The stereotype plates of the Old Testament were cast by Elihu White of New York; those of the New by B. & J. Collins. Kimber and Sharpless continued the publication of large and numerous editions until 1844 when they sold the plates to Jasper Harding." Contents include general title-page a note to the reader order of books contents of the Old and New Testaments Old Testament New Testament title-page New Testament Index and Tables Psalms of David and "A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments." by John Brown. With two frontispieces and 8 additional full-page historical engravings. Provenance: Late 20th century bookplate of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. Ownership inscription dated 1889 on blank side of first frontispiece. Hills 460; O'Callaghan 161-162; Shaw & Shoemaker 11824. Contemporary sheep with four raised bands accented in gilt and forming compartments. The second compartment bears a red morocco label and "Holy Bible" stamped on it in gilt. Binding a bit rubbed front joint opening a bit about 1" at top. Foxed as expectable. Long tear to pp. 401-402 without loss of text but definitely affecting it. Evidence of two leaves of family records between the Old and New Testaments having been torn out. Most of the pages of John Brown's Concordance are waterstained in margins. Red silk bookmark laid in. Complete. Kimber and Sharpless hardcover books
1763réf. 16738Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn 1763. 4to. 10 702 pp. Volume: "zehente theil." Text and commentary of Ezekiel and Daniel. Contemporary sheep raised bands on spine gilt roll above and below each band gilt-lettering in two compartments with title "Erklärung der Heiligen Schrift" gilt-stamped on a leather label gilt floral tooling in other four compartments. Worn and abraded a little dry and rusting gilt flaking away. Paper edges stained red. Waterstaining in upper and upper outer margins throughout. Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn hardcover books
1825réf. 20401Brussel: J.-B. Dupon 1825. 12mo 17.2 cm 6.75". 6 568 pp. Reprinting of Verhulsts Old Catholic edition of 1717 circulated by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The work is printed in double columns with typographic head- and tailpieces. Darlow and Moule 3369. Contemporary diced calf spine tooled in blind with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and joints rubbed sides with minor abrasions spine sunned. Front pastedown with traces of a now-absent bookplate. Some light foxing mostly confined to first few leaves. Pp. 5/6 and 7/8 bound in out of order. One leaf with short tear from upper margin touching a few letters; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away with loss of two letters. All edges marbled. J.-B. Dupon hardcover books
1883réf. 2572London: Longmans Green & Co. 1883. 4to. xvi 540 pp. lacking a total of 114 pp. 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. 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
1840réf. 25311Lipsiae: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii 1840. Small 8vo. xxxvi 657 pp. 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