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1907rif. 523655New York: Privately Printed 1907. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 102 2pp. original wrappers bound in. Quarter blue calf with raised bands decorated in gilt in six compartments gilt morocco spine label blue cloth-covered boards marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Few spots of wear to leather at tips of spine and corners few leaves of text have tiny bumped tear at lower edge in blank margin else a very good or better bright copy. A drama in verse set during the reign of Charles the Second on the shore of a New England Colony featuring several Native American characters. Uncommon. OCLC locates only two holdings. Privately Printed hardcover books
1840rif. 167731840. Religion Children's Literature Rev. Edmund S. Janes D.D. Miniature Bible. With Engravings Abridged and Collated. Philadelphia: Published at No. 2 Taylor's Alley by J. Harmstead and printed by S. Douglas Wyeth circa 1840. Approximately 2" x 2.5" inches. Original embossed brown cloth covers. 203 pages. 18 engravings including frontispiece depicting "Adam and Eve in the Garden" "The Prodigal Son" "Samson Killing A Lion" "Christ's Agony in the Garden" "Moses in the Bullrushes" "John the Baptist" and more. Miniature 'thumb bibles' such as this one were abridged versions of the Bible intended for children and decorated with pictures. At the time that this description is being written just four copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. Pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown reading "Sallie Hitch's Book Presented By Her Father". Sallie practices her name on the rear endpaper and leaves a small pencil doodle. Textblock tight though front hinge has separated from the textblock. Covers whole. Faint titles to spine. Pages occasionally creased and slightly toned but overall clean and attractive. An interesting beautifully illustrated volume in good condition. unknown books
1810rif. 1226331810. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing The Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. 2 839 1; 2 252 2 pp. 12mo. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1810. WITH: The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or Said in Churches. Unpaginated 578 pp. 12mo. uniformly bound in deluxe contemporary straight-grained English navy morocco in a matching full-morocco box. London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1801. Stereotype Edition. A handsome portable Bible and Book of Common Prayer in deluxe blue straight-grained morocco and laid into carrying case. A few pages trimmed at bottom throughout the Old Testament also slight tears on pages 733 OT and 223 NT. In the Book of Common Prayer pages 25-44 are loose at the bottom of sewn binding. Very slight wear on both covers due to latch on case. Darlow and Moule 1529. unknown books
1857rif. 281696Blackfriars: British and Foreign Bible Society 1857. Unbound. Near Fine. Preprinted order form. 10 1/8" x 8". Bill made out to the Oswestry Bible Society for books purchased in 1857. 264 books were purchased for 14.3.6 Sterling. This preprinted order form with text on both sides shows all the books then available for purchase with the price for each. The order has been completed in pen and documented at the bottom. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1991rif. 73272Jakarta: Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia 1991. 8vo pp. 1049 1; 334; 4 maps at the back; original limp brown leather stamped in gilt on upper and spine; fore-edge with 40 thumb tabs for each section of the Bible. Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia unknown books
1787rif. 271Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid 1787. Very good. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo 211 x 130 mm. Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8 complete. PSALMS: A-E8 complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers a.e.g. in vol. 1 the front joint expertly repaired and tape removed from inner hinges. Preserved in a protective cloth case. INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE ROCOCO BINDINGS COMBINING CHINOISERIE AND NEOCLASSICAL ELEMENTS EXHIBITING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SCOTTISH WORK AT THIS TIME. The present example is a striking hybrid of late 18th-century decorative art in Britain the likes of which we have not encountered hitherto. Here "oriental" birds and peacocks are juxtaposed with patriotic depictions of Britannia uncharacteristically surmounted by a fleur-de-lis bold anchors columns sunbursts dripping garlands flowers sheaves of wheat and urns. Presented in the Chippendale style the present binder who is as yet unnamed introduces rococo ornaments while enclosing all of the above with an unmistakably neoclassical greek-key roll. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROCOCO BINDINGS OF THIS QUALITY ARE RARE PARTICULARLY THOSE EXECUTED IN SCOTLAND. Rococo book arts in Scotland have been almost completely unexplored on account of the paltry number of examples with which we are able to study. Robert Adam's designs for the bindings of his "Ruins of Spalatro" 1764 is a bold statement of the neoclassical for he was justly celebrated. But we now know that Adam was not exclusively "Grecian." David Pullins' heroic archival research in Sir John Soane's Museum has shown that Adam received three previously unexamined commissions for a seemingly antithetical kind of decoration which he calls "neoclassical chinoiserie" specifically Adam's drawings for an unrealized chinoiserie looking-glass dated 1769 for Edwin Lascelles 1st Earl of Harewood. SOURCE: "Robert Adam's Neoclassical Chinoiserie" in: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture online. We would argue that the present bindings exhibit such a blend of Chippendale chinoiserie rococo and neoclassical. For a general note on English "Chippendale" and "Chinoiserie" bindings see G.D. Hobson "English Bindings of J.R. Abbey" p. 126. ¶ Our bindings may be linked to four others -- all greatly inferior -- which share the large "eagle" tool in common as noted by Mirjam Foot: 1. British Library Davis 253 Bible Edinburgh 1790 = Henry Davis Gift Vol. II No. 283; 2. National Library of Scotland F.4.e.9 Bible Psalms Edinburgh: Assigns of A. Kincaid 1789; 3. Washington Cathedral Library Bible Edinburgh 1789; 4. Glasgow University Library DXC 48-48A Bible Cambridge 1792 Psalms Glasgow 1793. PROVENANCE: red morocco bookplate of "MARION MALLOCH 1794" inside both volumes -- sold by us to a private collector in 2007 -- bought back by us in 2023. ¶ REFERENCES: ESTC 91765 Darlow & Moule 1319; ESTC 91766. Assigns of Alexander Kincaid unknown books
1895rif. 3891London: Printed in Leipzig for The British and Foreign Bible Society 1895. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 421 pp. Original green cloth embossed in black and blind gilt lettering in Persian on front cover some foxing and age toning minor water-staining on the edges and endpapers endpapers with old annotations in Ottoman inside front cover bookseller's stamp on rear endleaf lower hinge cracked; binding stained worn and shaken. A rough-looking but complete copy priced accordingly. Preserved in a fitted cloth protective case. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM THE GREEK INTO MODERN PERSIAN: THE ROBERT BRUCE TRANSLATION "THE VERSION BY WHICH ALL LATER RENDITIONS ARE JUDGED." Published by the British and Foreign Bible Society the text builds upon the 1845/6 translation of the New Testament by Mirza Sayyed Ali Khan / Henry Martyn which was published with the Old Testament in a single volume likewise by the British and Foreign Bible Society. This was the first complete Christian Bible to be published in Persian. However: "After some years it was recognized that changes in the Persian language required a revision of the 1845 Bible. With the help of others Robert Bruce a missionary and representative of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Iran spent 20 years on this project. The revised New Testament was published in 1882 and further revisions of the whole Bible was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in Leipzig in 1895. The so-called 'Bruce translation' is still the standard Bible translation in Persian and it is the version by which all later renditions are judged." Encyclopedia Iranica Persian Translations of the Bible online. As stated Bruce's translation of the New Testament first appeared in 1882 but it was deemed necessary to revise it further. Portions of Bruce's translation into modern Persian appeared in 1893 Pentateuch and 1894 Joshua to II Chronicles. Finally in 1895 Bruce's further revised translation of the New Testament the present edition was issued appearing independently from a one-volume edition of the complete Bible. Darlow and Moule 7358 state: "The Old Testament practically represents a new translation and the New Testament is a fresh revision." Robert Bruce 1833-1915 was an Irish born CMS Missionary active in Persia from 1869-1893. He was a Lecturer in Persian at University College London 1895-6 vicar at Durham 1896 and Rector of Little Dean Gloucester 1903. His Bible translation work was carried out with assistance of others including for example Karapet Ohaness from Julfa Persia. [Printed in Leipzig for] The British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1800rif. 9693London: Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin 1800. 7 volume set 48 cm Contemporary calf with decorative gilt stamped borders to boards with raised and gilt bands to backstrips. All edges gilt. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Some minor wear to corners. Some foxing to the plates. A few small dampstains. Some wear to backstrips and boards. The Macklin Bible is the largest Bible printed on a letterpress. Published serially between 1791 and 1800 in London this project was of one several ambitious projects that commissioned paintings of literary subjects exhibited them at their premises and sold engravings and/or editions of the relevant text including the engravings after the paintings by subscription. These 'literary galleries' sought to be both commercial printselling projects for the proprietors and to foster British history painting aligning with the ambitions of the Royal Academy to encourage a native school of painting in this genre. The foremost literary gallery was Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery which operated between 1789 and 1805. In addition to its 70 full-page plates the Bible includes head and tailpieces for each biblical book - 113 in total. All but two of the vignettes were designed by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg who also painted 16 pictures for the full-page plates. The full-page plates and headpiece and tailpiece vignettes were published by Macklin and the text was printed for Macklin by Thomas Bensley. The type was cut by Joseph Jackson and Vincent Figgins Jackon's apprentice. The paper was made by Whatman. The instructions to the binder recommended binding the set in six volumes but this set like many others was bound in seven. Darlow & Moule 982. ESTC T123175. Herbert 1442. Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin unknown books
1482rif. S14048Venice:: Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn 1482/3. 1482. Volume II of III. Folio in 10s. 12.5 x 8.7 inches / 32 x 22.4 cm. COLLATION this volume is complete: A10 B10 C10 D10 E10 F10 G10 H10 J10 K8 110 210 310 410 510 610 710 810 98 108 1110 1210 1310 1410 1510 1610 1710 1810 1910 2010 2110 2210 2310 2410 2510 2610 2710 2810 2910 3010 318 3210 3310 3412. This volume undated. NOTE: Part III the third volume is dated 1482 and the Additiones of Paulus Burgensis 1483. CONDITION: occasional waterstains at beginning mild staining: 142. ANNOTATIONS ink: 1110-verso 288-r. HAND-COLORED INITIALS: With 1176 beautiful hand-painted initials 599 red 577 blue. Text printed in two columns with commentary of Nicolas de Lyra set within Biblical text 73 lines per full sheet. BINDING: Eighteenth century stiff paper boards with paper spine or different stock with manuscript spine titles rear end leaf pastedown shows a dated sheet printed in 1713 from blank verso so inked part of sheet is shown in reverse edges with light mottling; occasional stains some occasional worm holes including the endsheets. CONTENTS: Psalterium Proverbia Ecclesiastes Cantico Sapientia Ecclesiasticus Isaias Hieremias Trenorum Baruch Ezechiel Daniel Osee Johel Amos Abdias Jonas Micheas Naum Abachuc Sophonias Aggeus Zacharias Malachias. THE FOURTH "RENNER" BIBLE AND PROBABLY THE FINAL PRINTING MADE BY FRANZ RENNER HIMSELF IN VENICE. The classical Vulgate text is based on the edition by Nicolaus Jenson Venice 1476 GW 4222. The commentary is by Nicolas de Lyra 1270/75-1349. Franz Renner active 1471-1483 from Heilbronn worked as a printer in Venice from 1471 to 1483. In 1494 Renner reappears in Ulm again working as a printer. REFERENCES: ISTC RLIN ib00578000. Goff B578; Hain-Copinger 3089; Pell 2316; CIBN B-409; Hillard 389; Arnoult 281; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 04287; Girard 101; IBE 1024; IGI 1667; IDL 838; ISTC No.ib00612000; Sajo-Soltesz 638; IBP 1016; Madsen 681; Voull B 3701; Ohly-Sack 527 528 529; Sack Freiburg 635; Borm 467; Oates 1678; Sheppard 3358; Proctor 4182; BMC V 198; BSB-Ink B-449; GW 4287. Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1482/3. hardcover books
1946rif. 2352300New York: Oxford University Press 1946. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Coral 16mo. Ink names and date on presentation page. Binding tight and square text clean bright and unmarked. 1946 Full-Leather. 1152 41 1 6 12 pp. Aids to Bible Studies How to Read the Bible Through in a Year and Sixty Bible Readings sections follow text along with 12 color map plates. Yapp edge leather binding gilt titles red edges. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1923rif. 328598London: Nonesuch Press 1923. Limited. paperback. fine. Decorative borders in mid-sixteenth century style printed in sienna. Unpaginated 8vo thin boards covered with maroon batik paper. London: Nonesuch Press 1923. Limited Edition. Fine Number 51 of 250 copies. In a blue paper slightly rubbed slipcase with a decorative label. Nonesuch Press unknown books
1914rif. 329279London 1914. Limited. hardcover. fine. F. Caley Robinson. Illustrated with 10 color plates after F. Caley Robinson protected with lettered tissue. 89 pages. Slim 4to linen-backed boards with paper labels on spine & cover; uncut edges top edge gilt. London: Philip Lee Warner/Medici Society 1914. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition -- number 324 of 500 copies printed at the Riccardi Press. unknown books
1947rif. 328028New York: Limited Editions Club 1947. Limited. hardcover. Szyk Arthur. From the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I. With a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase and Illustrations by Arthur Szyk. 8 mounted color plates gilt title and initials. 44 double pages. Tall 4to 3/4 cream leather with gilt-stamped cover top edge gilt. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1947. A very good copy in gold foil board slipcase scuffed. One of 1950 numbered copies signed by Szyk. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1850rif. 17142Philadelphia: Fisher and Brother n.d. ca. 1850 Later edition. First published by Truman Smith and Co. in 1834. Later editions of the present work are often misdated as 1834 because of the copyright date on the verso of the title- page but Ruth E. Adomeit gives a date range of 1850 to 1875 for these later editions Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles A80. The physical properties of this particular copy indicate that it was published the earlier end of the range around 1850. . Publisher's purple cloth with gilt-titled spine and design of a child's head blindstamped on lower board. . Miniature book 17/8" x 21/8". . With a woodcut frontispiece title-page vignette and twenty-seven full-page illustrations all printed in black. Engravings by Alexander Anderson 1775 – 1870. Binding slightly loose. Some light foxing. A very good copy. The present work is a simplified rendition of the Bible for a child audience. We could not locate any information about the "Lady of Cincinnati" who authored the work. Fisher and Brother, hardcover books
1737rif. 49261Leiden: Jean Luzac 1737. First edition. Two volumes large quarto. 52 544; 2 545-1232 63 indices 1 corrigendapp. Text in two columns with Hebrew text and facing Latin translation interspersed with commentary. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Contemporary speckled calf; gilt-tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; gilt dentelles; edges daubed in red and green. Light scuffing to boards and fading to spines. A very good set with crisp clean text throughout. First edition of this comprehensive commentary to the biblical Book of Job by the Dutch scholar of Semitic languages Albert Schultens 1686-1750 who maintained "that the true nature of the Hebrew language and the meaning of many of its words and idioms are to be found chiefly in the Arabic" Orme. Fifty-five pages of the indices constitute a brief lexicon and provide Latin as well as Arabic equivalents for more than 1000 Hebrew words. Schultens studied theology and eastern languages at Groningen where he received his degree in theology in 1709. After a brief career as a preacher in Wassenaar he was nominated professor of Hebrew and Jewish antiquities at Franeker in 1713. In 1729 he decamped for Leiden were he was first appointed reader in eastern languages and finally full professor in 1732. At this time a chief concern of Calvinist theologians was to liberate Old Testament exegesis from the Jewish Rabbinic as well as Catholic traditions. Schultens' influential and controversial solution was revealed as early as 1706 in his first public thesis Disputatio theologico philologica de utilitate linguae Arabicae in interpretanda S. Scriptura A Theologico-Philosophical Dissertation on the Utility of the Arabic Language for the Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures "a forceful attack" Brugman & Schröder on the Protestant sola scriptura methodology of Biblical exegesis. "With the help of Jacobus Golius' Arabic dictionary he perused with zeal and fervour the Old Testament and wrote prolifically. The lexical superiority of Arabic had led him to a reconsideration of the position of Hebrew: at first he had called Arabic 'the most splendid daughter of mother Hebrew' but in his oration of 1729 he proclaimed Hebrew and Arabic cognate twin sisters. This shocked conservative theologians as an outright profanation of God's Word" Brugman & Schröder. "In 1737 he applied his theories in his bilingual edition of the book of the prophet Job whom he regarded as an Arab. The Hebrew text and the Latin translation are all but totally submerged by the extensive commentary in which Schultens draws abundantly on Arabic texts such as the Hamasa an anthology of early Arabic poetry by the ninth-century poet Abu Tammam" Vrolijk & van Leeuwen. Schultens was not without his critics and by 1824 William Orme notes a turning of the tide: "Different opinions are entertained of the correctness of his views and also of his success in applying them; but it is now generally admitted that he carries his notions of the advantage of Arabic learning to the interpretation of the Scriptures too far." Jean Luzac 1728-1777 was a member of a well-known Huguenot family of printers; he published many works for the University of Leiden including three Hebrew books of Albert Schultens. Isaac van der Mijn is noted as the printer at the colophon of the second volume. Provenance: printed label of the Bibliotheca Seminarii Warmondani at the front endleaf of the first volume. Full title: Liber Jobi cum nova versione ad Hebraeum fontem et commentario perpetuo in quo Veterum et Recentiorum Interpretum cogitata præcipua expenduntur: genuinus sensus ad priscum Linguae genium indagatur atque ex filo et nexu universo Argumenti nodus intricatissimus evolvitur. Curavit et editit. Albertus Schultens. Tomus Primus. -Tomus Secundus References: J. Brugman & F. Schröder Arabic Studies in the Netherlands Leiden: E.J. Brill 1979 p.26f. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 78. Orme Bibl. Biblica p. 390. A. Vrolijk & R. van Leeuwen Arabic Studies in the Netherlands a Short History in Portraits 1580-1950 Leiden: E.J. Brill 2014 pp. 73-79. Jean Luzac unknown books
1863rif. 92359London: Samuel Bagster 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 118p. Original cloth. Titled in gilt on front cover. 16 cm. Modest fading on backstrip and around edges of front cover. Library stamping on front free endpaper indicating that this was owned and discarded by Redemptorist Communities in Ireland. Arabic text with Introduction in English. Ferrette identified on the title page as a missionary of the irish Presbyterian Church at Damascus believed that he had come up with a great typographic method for dealing with the vowel problem in Arabic type. Ferrette's suggested fix did not catch on and his suggested fix is now mostly forgotten. Most copies located by OCLC list W. M. Watts as publisher and are dated 1863 on the title-page. This copy with the same pagination lists Bagster as publisher and is undated. We suspect that Bagster persuaded the publisher or Ferrette to issue some copies with Bagster's name as publisher for sale in Bagster's theological bookstore. We doubt that it is a later or second edition. OCLC locates one copy Huntington with the Bagster imprint. It is dated as 1836 which seems likely to be an error in dating caused by transposing the last two numbers. Samuel Bagster hardcover books
1847rif. 7309New York: American Bible Society 1847. Full Leather. Very Good. 12mo 7" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2" 691 pages; publisher's full sheepskin with gilt lettering on black leather spine label. A very good copy. American Bible Society hardcover books
1960rif. 73352London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1960. 7" x 4½" pp. 382 2 133 3; original black cloth stamped in gilt on spine; very good sound and clean. On the verso of the title page: "The New Testament and Psalms in Sintebele Tabele." The Ndebele are a Bantu-speaking people of Zimbabwe and the Transvaal of South Africa. U. Cal and the BL only in OCLC. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1983rif. 73334Bangalore: Bible Society of India 1983. 7" x 4½" pp. 1338; 378; 2 full-page maps at the back; text in Hindi throughout and printed in double column; a very good sound and clean copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine edges stained red. Bible Society of India unknown books
1945rif. 73335Helsinki: Briti ja Wäljamaa 1945. 8¼" x 5½" pp. 940; 307 1; text in Estonian throughout and printed in double column; a very good sound and clean copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on spine upper cover embossed with a crucifix edges stained red. Briti ja Wäljamaa unknown books
2008rif. 73330Nairobi: Bible Society of Kenya for the Society for International Ministries-Kenya 2008. 7¼" x 4¾" pp. 6 364; text in double column and in Somali throughout; fine in original printed green wrappers. Bible Society of Kenya for the Society for International Ministries-Kenya unknown books
2001rif. 73347South Holland Il: The Bible League 2001. 8¼" x 5½"; pp. 4 925 1; 2 292; text in Russsiian throughout and in double column; fine in original blue leatherette stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. The Bible League unknown books
1953rif. 73342London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1953. 7¼" x 4¾' pp. 2 49 1; text in Mende and in double column; very good sound and clean in original printed green wrappers. The Mende are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and Liberia. OCLC locates the SOAS and Cambridge copies in the UK plus one other in Germany. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1999rif. 73354Cape Town: UMbutho weBhayibhile woMzantsi-Afrika 1999. Twenty-sixth printing; 7½" x 5¼" pp. 1234; textin double column; original black cloth stampped in gilt on upper cover andspine edges stained red; very good sound and clean. With a presentation from a South African priest dated May 2000 on front free endpaper and a second inscription on the verso undated. Xhosa is an indigenous ethnic group of the Bantu language family native to Southern Africa. UMbutho weBhayibhile woMzantsi-Afrika unknown books
2002rif. 73369Guilford Surrey: International Bible Society 2002. 8¾" x 5¾" pp. 8 1247 1; fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. International Bible Society unknown books
