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réf. 04269Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. A Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century Book of Common Prayer BIBLE IN ENGLISH. 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; and the form and manner of making ordaining and consecrating of bishops priests and deacons. Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co. 1839. Sixteenmo 3 1/2 x 2 inches; 89 x 51 mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary full purple morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind spine with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins yellow coated end-papers all edges gilt. Neat early ink inscription on front blank. A fine example. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, by S. Collingwood and Co..., 1839 unknown books
1613réf. 108231Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11”. 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
1937réf. 108232Folio. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1937. Folio 2 xxi 2 pp. single leaf inserted printed in red blue gold and black. Original quarter cloth paper boards printed to look like cloth label affixed to backstrip. Minor foxing to paper boards corners bumped internally bright; very good. § Limited to 300 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The leaf in this copy is that bearing Judges 20:1-44 the Israelites punish the Benjamites describing one of the bloodiest battles of the Bible. Chalmers A Checklist of Leaf Books 72. Heller and Magee 275. The Book Club of California hardcover books
réf. 04102New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. The Greatest Poem of Ancient and Modern Times Alfred Lord Tennyson Eight Magnificent Colored Illustrations by Arthur Szyk SZYK Arthur illustrator. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Job from the Translation Prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James 1 with a Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1946. Limited to 1950 copies signed by Arthur Szyk this being number 478. Folio 12 x 8 1/2 inches; 304 x 216 mm. 148 2 blank 1 limitation 5 blank pp. Eight mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. Publishers three-quarter creme leather over white paper boards front cover pictorially stamped in gilt spine title blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing to spine extremities otherwise an excellent copy housed in the original slightly worn red felt-lined metallic gold slipcase. Complete with the LEC Monthly Letter loosely inserted. The Book of Job is a book in the Ketuvim "Writings" section of the Hebrew Bible Tanakh and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Addressing the problem of theodicy - why a good God permits evil or more simply "Why do the righteous suffer" - it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely and often extravagantly praised for its literary qualities with Alfred Lord Tennyson calling it "the greatest poem of ancient and modern times". LEC Bibliography No. 173. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1946 unknown books
1969réf. 291977Madison.: University of Wisconsin Press. 1969. Red cloth gilt titles. Fine in a severely silverfished dust jacket with some loss to the lower edge and foredge. 28x20.5 cm. Heavy book will require extra shipping. weight: 5.5 lb. University of Wisconsin Press. hardcover books
réf. 16773Religion 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. Only four libraries in the world hold this edition per OCLC Worldcat's records. 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
1582réf. 68152First Edition of the Roman Catholic Version of the Bible in English New Testament. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. New Testament. The New Testament of Jesus Christ Translated Faithfully into English out of the authentical Latin according to the best corrected copies of the same diligently conferred with the Greeke and other editions in divers languages: With Arguments of bookes and chapters Annotations. and other necessarie helpes for the better understanding of the text and specially for the discoverie of the Corruptions of divers late translations and for cleering the Controversies in religion of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes. Rheims: Printed.by John Fogny 1582. First edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English. Small quarto 8 5/16 x 6 inches; 210 x 154 mm. 28 745 27 pp. Title within border of type ornaments decorative and historiated woodcut initials. Bound in 19th-century brown calf. Boards and spine ruled and stamped in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Board edges and dentelles stamped in blind. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Boards slightly rubbed. Four previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. Front free endpaper with old ink notations quotation from Saint Augustine and small purple library stamp from the "Society of Jesus" in Milltown Park Ireland. The "Society of Jesus" is the Catholic group of which its members are the Jesuits. Title-page with cropped early annotation at top margin and same small "Society of Jesus" library stamp to lower corner. Some dampstaining and toning particularly to beginning. Some slight worming to fore-edge margin occasionally barely affecting text. Overall an excellent copy of the Rheims Bible. ìThe long title of The New Testament indicates at least in part the purpose which motivated William Allen and his small band of associates in the seminary of English Catholic refugees at Rheims. It was a losing battle for English Catholics merely to condemn the errors they claimed existed in other translations while declining to exhibit a translation which reflected their own critical principles.If the slow erosion of the Catholic faith in England was to be checked loyal Catholics would better withstand the taunts of Protestant Bible readers with the comfort and consolation drawn from a version of their own. As the title announces the translation was faithful to the Latin Vulgate but it also acknowledges careful comparison with the Greek. What the title does not specifically advertise is that Gregory Martin the chief translator borrowed freely from existing English versions. Close textual analysis has revealed many striking resemblances between the Rheims New Testament and Coverdaleís diglot of 1538. One new principle.was followed consistentlyótechnical words were transliterated in the text rather than translated the notes providing a clarification. Many of these words subsequently passed into the English language largely through the continuation of this practice by the revisers of the Authorized Version of 1611 who not only used these technical terms but also borrowed from Rheims many of its most felicitous and distinctive phrasesî In Remembrance of Creation 206. ìGregory Martin had originally translated the whole Bible into English but lack of funds permitted publication only of the New Testament in 1582. The long delay of twenty-seven years in completing the publication is underscored in the Preface of the Old Testament by reference to ëour poor estate in banishmentí In Remembrance of Creation 208. The annotations in the Old Testament are ascribed to Thomas Worthington who became President of the College at Douay in 1599. The ìApprobatioî is signed by three Professors at Douai. Darlow & Moule 231. Herbert 177. . In Remembrance of Creation 206. STC 2284. STC 2207. HBS 68152. $22500 Printed...by John Fogny hardcover books
1580réf. 68068A 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
1760réf. 67973Bible in English Complete with the Apocrypha BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majestyís Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.Price 6s. unbound. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham 1760. Joseph Bentham's Bible. Eight octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 142 mm. Unpaginated. A8-Z8 Aa8-Oo2; E4-I2; Oo3-Zz8 Aaa8-Ddd2; A8-E3 2 blank I3-M8; Eee8-Uuu2 pp. This copy with the price of 6s. printed on title-page and with the Apocrypha. There is another state according to Herbert that is priced 4s. and is wanting the Apocrypha. It is possible that they sold the leaves with and without the Apocrypha thus the difference in price. Because the sheets were sold unbound it is possible that they were issued as parts. 31 leaves from the Apocrypha E4 through I2 are misbound into Volume IV. In their correct spot are bound 2 blank leaves. Old Testament and New Testament have separate title-pages. With a chart page after the Old Testament and after the New Testament. Bible is complete. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled paper boards. Ink title to spine of each volume. Previous owner's bookplate and signature dated 1770 on front pastedown of each volume. Title-page of each volume with some old ink manuscript notes to top margin. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped. Some minor staining and wrinkling to bottom margin of signature Iii. Overall very good or better copy. Just two years after Joseph Bentham published this present copy his Bible of 1762 was marked the "standard edition" according to Darlow & Moule. Herbert 1131. HBS 67973. $2250 Printed by Joseph Bentham hardcover books
1850réf. 67639A Family Bible with Six of the John Martin Bible Illustrations BIBLE IN ENGLISH. 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. London Edinburgh and Glasgow: William Mackenzie n.d. ca. 1850. Folio. Measures 9 3/4 x 13 x 5/12 x 3 3/4 in. thick; 250 x 335 x 93 mm. thick. Illustrated with thirty full-page engravings by various artists including a frontispiece and a vignette title-page titled The Family Bible With Copious Notes and References two engravings by J. Stephens from photographs of the Holy Land by Frith and six engravings after John Martinís Old Testament illustrations ìThe Fall of Manî ìThe Destruction of Pharaoh's Hostî ìJoshua commanding the sun to stand stillî ìBy Babel's Streams We Sat and Weptî ìBelshazzar's Feastî and ìThe Fall of Ninevehî. Contemporary black polished calf over bevelled boards covers tooled in gilt and blind spine lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments. Gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Minimal wear to extremities. Hinges neatly reinforced. A bright fresh copy throughout. Near fine. Martinís Biblical paintings are among the finest ever produced: ìThe spirit in which Martin worked is suggested by a passage in his catalogue for the large oil painting ëThe Fall of Ninevehí which he exhibited in lonely magnificence in 1827: ëThe mighty cities of Nineveh and Babylon have long since passed away. The accounts of their greatness and splendor may have been exaggerated. But where strict truth is not essential the mind is content to find delight in the contemplation of the grand and the marvelous. Into the solemn visions of antiquity we look without demanding the clear daylight of truth. Seen through the mist of ages the great becomes gigantic the wonderful swells into the sublimeíî Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 p. 44. At the front of the Bible are three leaves of a family history partially inscribed with the births deaths and marriages of three generations of the Hubbard family of Derby England during the years 1889-1943. A lovely example of a nineteenth-century Bible. HBS 67639. $3000 William Mackenzie hardcover books
1529réf. 66850Beautiful French Woodcut Bible BIBLE IN LATIN. Textus Biblie. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529. Second Crespin edition reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio 13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm. 304 leaves 18 CCLXVIII 18 leaves. Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome repeated three times in the text with Jeromeís prefaces within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum the six days of Creation and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament and 121 small text woodcuts including twenty-three repetitions: ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders including eight repetitions and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders including fifteen repetitions. Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons leaves D1-D3 are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards roll-tooled in blind to a panel design. Lacking clasps. Original index tabs. Binding worn with some loss of pigskin on upper corner of front cover. Title soiled lower margin of first few leaves wormed and frayed with some loss to woodcut title border a few short marginal tears some mostly marginal dampstaining minor worming to lower inner margins a few inkstains slight discoloration throughout. Despite these minor flaws this is a beautiful example of a French woodcut Bible completely unsophisticated. Contemporary ink inscription on back pastedown dated 1534 contemporary ink inscription on the recto of D4 beneath the Nativity cut eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on title: B.V. Maria in F¸rstenfeld. Some early underlining and coloring of woodcuts in red. A few early ink marginalia. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell case. The illustrations follow the schema of the Sacon Bibles printed in Lyons in 1518 and 1521. Crespinís blocks with the exception of the Creation are close copies of those used in Jacques and Jean Mareschalís Lyons Bibles of 1523-1541 as is the layout of the text within ruled columns. The borders for the Old Testament blocks include a strip with the initials ìPBA.î Fairfax Murray French 36. Harvard French 66. Not in Brunet Rothschild Darlow and Moule. HBS 66850. $9500 Per Johanem Crespin hardcover books
1810réf. 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
1809réf. 39623Hartford Connecticut: Printed and Sold by Hudson & Goodwin 1809. 12mo. 6 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches. 810pp. Original sheep binding spine flat. Slight wear. A fine copy of the first edition of the first Bible printed in the state of Connecticut complete with the separate title page for the New Testament. On October 18 1809 an announcement in the "Connecticut Courant" now known as the Hartford Courant read: "Hudson and Goodwin have the satisfaction to announce to the public that they have this day completed their first edition of the School Bible. The type is entirely new imported at heavy expense.and the paper is so good a quality that it is asserted with confidence to be the best of the kind offered for sale in this country." Henry Hudson a partner in the Hudson and Goodwin publishing firm which was also the publisher of the Connecticut Courant was the secretary of the newly-formed Connecticut Bible Society at the time. At the encouragement of the society Hudson and Goodwin published this Bible which they referred to as the School Bible. Hills The English Bible in America 168. Printed and Sold by Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1932réf. 9026550Leipzig: Limited Editions Club 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Decorations by E.R. Weiss. Introduction by Ernest Sutherland Bates. One of 1500 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte and signed by the illustrator. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slipcase with printed paper label shows wear at one edge. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1840réf. 88347Philadelphiae: Sumptibus Henrici Perkins; Bostoniae: Perkins & Marvin 1840. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 maps 1 double-page which is bound in upside down 571 3 iv 281p. Contemporary leather. Small book 12cm. Modest cover scuffing and wear. Internally sound and clean The second part has a separate title-page "The Polymicrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament; in Which the Various Senses of the Words Are Distinctly Explained in English and Authorized by References to Passages of Scripture" by W. Greenfield which is dated 1839. Sumptibus Henrici Perkins; Bostoniae: Perkins & Marvin hardcover books
1854réf. 291866Philadelphia.: Lippincott Grambo & Co. 1854. Full black morocco raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt. Very good old ink name to title page. 29x23 cm. Heavy book will require extra shipping. weight: 8.0 lb. Chromolithograph frontis and half-title page 3 engraved plates. Lippincott, Grambo & Co. hardcover books
1507réf. 41458Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 177576. 4to in 8s 28.8 cm 11.33". Frontis. 639 ff. with accompanying volume The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1781. 8vo 20.7 cm 8.15". 376 ff. bound with Vickers William. A companion to the altar: Shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation in order to our worthy receiving the holy communion. London: Pr. for Thomas Beecroft 1783. Frontis. 2 v55 1 adv. pp. lacking half-title or initial blank and with Bible. Psalms. English. Sternhold and Hopkins. The whole book of psalms collected into English metre. Cambridge: Pr. by John Archdeacon 1785. 8vo. 64 ff. This striking 18th-century set owned by a wealthy Englishwoman who spent much of her life in Switzerland for more on which see below pairs a handsome Cambridge Bible and BCP in => masterfully designed and executed deluxe matched bindings. The Bible opens with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; the Apocrypha are present in this copy and the New Testament has a separate title-page dated 1776. The BCP is bound with Companion to the Altar "Note This Book is bound up with the Common-Prayers of several sorts printed by the University of Cambridge" as per the title-page; Sternhold & Hopkins bring up the rear. Bindings: Contemporary mottled green morocco covers framed in Greek key roll and dentelles composed of urn and flower motifs surrounding central JHS medallions with red morocco inlays and gilt-tooled flames; spines with gilt-tooled compartment decorations Bible spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label. While the covers of the two volumes are strongly similar overall and "read" as => identical on first glance the details of the design vary slightly between the Bible and the BCP as the size disparity and possibly the time gap between the publication dates necessitated the use of different tools. The spine designs differ more notably but still most companionably with the Bible's spine decorations being built up with foliate and floral motifs and the BCP's with suns and stars. => To engage in minute comparison of these bindings' detail is an entrancing exercise. Provenance: Front free endpaper of Bible used for family record: Francis James Barwell de Sandol Roy born in 1793 and died in 1813 "Quel angoisse!"; Henri Guillaume de Sandol Roy born in 1797; and a list of grandchildren: François Sophie Anna and Alfred. The title-page inscription confirms that this set was owned by Sophie Bridget Barwell de Sandol Roy 17691850 daughter of William Barwell a director of the East India Company; her brother Richard became a famously wealthy and scandalous nabob. Dubbed "la belle Anglaise" following her arrival in Neuchâtel Sophie made a great splash in Swiss society and received a proposal from Colonel François Isaac de Sandol Roy sometimes given as Sandol-Roy a proposal which she at first rejected until he subsequently saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary Paris! For more on their story please see Musée Neuchatelois 1923 ed. pp. 24 which includes a reproduction of a portrait of Sophie de Sandol-Roy done by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Bible: Darlow & Moule 1247; ESTC T88808. BCP: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1781:1; ESTC T212010. Companion: ESTC T76554. Psalms: ESTC T221010. Bindings as above moderate rubbing to extremities and sides with limited scuffing only; all edges gilt marbled endpapers and original matching dark blue bookmarks present still attached. Bible with small area of waterstaining to lower inner margins of first few leaves including frontispiece; varying faint to moderate foxing; one leaf with small repair to upper outer margin. BCP with a few instances of light foxing pages mostly clean; laid in is a stitched pamphlet which seems to be a record of additional family information involving Albert Victor and Mary although written in a challenging hand. => A gorgeous lavish production altogether with a remarkable arresting provenance. Pr. by John Archdeacon hardcover books
1913réf. 41439in Arabic: Beirut: The American Printing Press 1913. 8vo 18.5 cm 7.5" 920 295 pp. The Van Dyck translation of the Bible into Arabic first appeared in 1865 and remained the standard version used by Arabs for a century. This edition from the American Printing Press is => an all-Arabic production with the only English appearing in it being a small-print line "Bible Third Font 282" on the title-page at "rear". Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck 181895 was born at Kinderhook NY and educated at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia receiving his M.D. in 1839. The following year the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent him to Lebanon as a medical missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church and he remained in the Middle East for the rest of his life with only an occasional trip to the U.S. Van Dyck became fluent in Arabic wrote extensively in that language and taught medicine and other subjects: "He was professor of pathology and internal medicine in the medical school of the newly founded Syrian Protestant College which later became the American University of Beirut. He also taught astronomy in its literary section directed its observatory and meteorological station as well as the mission press and edited its weekly journal al-Nashran. He wrote Arabic textbooks on chemistry internal medicine physical diagnosis and astronomy publishing some of them at his own expense" Wikipedia. WorldCat records at least three editions of the Arabic Bible from the American Printing Press in 1913 each with a different pagination. Publisher's brown cloth spine stamped in gilt with title in Arabic and with blind stamping to covers and spine; some chipping to cloth around spine and at edges. Printed on very thin paper occasionally showing a short tear or a crease but clean and untattered. A very good copy. The American Printing Press hardcover books
1727réf. 41004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates. Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
2001réf. 40835Huntington Beach CA: Wycliffe Bible Translators 2001. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". vi 624 pp. 18 unnumbered pages of plates; illus. some color color maps. 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
1981réf. 40834Lagos: Bible Society of Nigeria 1981. 8vo 22 cm 8.5". 541 pp. illus. maps. First New Testament in the Ebira language a member of the Niger-Kordofanian family. Includes glossary. Translated by David Moomo and Hans-Juergen Schultz. In black printed vinyl wrappers. Bible Society of Nigeria unknown books
1535réf. 40636colophon: Basileae: apvd Io Bebelium for Johann Schabler called Wattenschnee 1535. 8vo 16 cm 6.25". 8 367 1 ff. Jakob Ceporinus 14991525 born Jakob Wiesendanger the editor of this Greek Testament was => a Swiss humanist who attended the universities of Cologne and Vienna and acquired knowledge of Hebrew by studying with the German humanist Johannes Reuchlin in Ingolstadt. He worked in Basel as a proofreader for a printing house settled in Zurich and in April of 1525 was appointed as => the first Reader of Greek and Hebrew at Zwingli's school of theology in Zurich. He died unexpectedly in December 1525. The first edition of his Greek New Testament appeared in 1524 from the same printer as this third edition of 1535 and like that first closely follows the Erasmus third edition with a few variants and independent readings. Also as with the 1524 edition the title-page has => four woodcuts after Urs Graf representing the evangelists and that leaf is followed by Oecolampadius' "In sacrarum literarum lectionem . . . exhortatio" pi 27. The work was published at the expense of Johann Schabler called Wattenschnee whose device with motto "Durum pacientia frango" is on the verso of last leaf. The Testament text is in Greek only and each book begins with a woodcut headpiece and a historiated initial with some initials after Dance of Death designs by => Hans Holbein. Reuss lists this among "Editiones Erasmicae." Provenance: 19th-century signature on front fly-leaf of W.C.S. Tole ; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. VD16 B4180; Adams B1653; Reuss Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti Graeci p. 33. Not in Darlow & Moule but see 4601 for the first editon. 18th-century full calf no raised bands round spine gilt extra; spine pulled at head front joint sometime repaired taking part of the label and some gilt on that side with volume now strong corners rubbed and some old abrasions. => Interior with a very few instances of old marginalia; type splendidly sharp on very clean pages. apvd Io, Bebelium {for Johann Schabler, called Wattenschnee} hardcover books
1642réf. 40055Cantabrigiae: Ex officina Rogeri Danielis 1642. Folio 37.5 cm 14.5". 8 10 ff. 766 i.e. 764 pp. 12 ff. 125 1 blank pp. 2 1 blank ff. In 1565 Theodore Beza 15191605 also de Bèsze or Bèze Calvin's chief assistant and successor as leader of his reform movement first published his edition of the Greek New Testament with the Vulgate and his own Latin translation. For the edition of 1582 he revised his text based on the discovery of the important Codex Bezae Codex D a manuscript of the Gospels and Acts probably written in the 5th century and the principal witness to the Western textual tradition of the New Testament. Beza personally owned this codex and presented it to Cambridge University in 1581. This is the first folio edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed in England as well as the => first GreekLatin edition of Beza's New Testament to be printed there. It is also considered by the ODCC to be the best edition of Beza's Latin translation of the New Testament. The text is based on Beza's fourth and last edition of 1598 and includes his annotations. Joachim Camerarius's commentary on the New Testament is appended at the end with its own sectional title-page and pagination. Handsomely printed with an => engraved printer's device on the title-page by Wenceslas Hollar and woodcut initials head- and tailpieces this edition has the text in three parallel columns Greek Beza's Latin version and the Vulgate with a wealth of commentary above and below. The title-page exists in three states: the present one is printed in black only and lists the print-shop of Roger Daniel without "Londini venales prostant." Provenance: 1710 ownership signature of "R. Holde----." Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Wing rev. 2728A; ESTC R35303; Darlow & Moule 4686; not in Rumball-Petre Rare Bibles. On Beza see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 16667. On the Western text of the N.T. see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 147071. Contemporary Dutch-style vellum over pasteboards with central blind-stamped medallion on both boards within a blind double-rule frame; vellum split along front joint outside and peeling at top and bottom of spine. Evidence of silk ties. Title-leaf with dust-soiling and discoloration at inner margin; dust-soiling and light water- or dampstaining variably elsewhere. Overall a sound decent copy. Ex officina Rogeri Danielis hardcover books
1801réf. 38808London: Printed for J. Wallis . by J. Cundee 1801. Near miniature 9.6 cm 3.75". Frontis. 32 32 pp. Here for the young audience is a small volume composed of one-page or slightly longer synopses of the various books of the Bible. The volume begins with a fine metal-engraved frontispiece. The book was also issued in the same year as vol. 6 of Wallis' ten-volume Book-Case of Knowledge. Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership NN CtNlC NNPM NjP. Original green papercovered boards front with printed paper label; spine slightly sunned and rubbed. Pages clean and fresh. Printed for J. Wallis ... by J. Cundee hardcover books
1599réf. 39429Heidelberg: Ex officina Commeliniana 1599. 8vo 19.9 cm 7.75". 14 827 1 pp. Lacks interior blank only. One of the last 16th-century interlinear editions of the Greek New Testament and Vulgate Latin as first presented in Plantin's monumental Royal Antwerp Polyglot Bible of 156972. The text is printed in Greek with the Vulgate in roman type inter-linearly; additionally there are decorative letters and head and tailpieces. When the Vulgate differs from the Greek its text is printed in the margin as a shouldernote and a literal Latin rendering by the great Spanish theologian Benedictus Arias Montanus a.k.a. Benito Arias Montano is printed in italics in the text. The Commelin device appears on the title-page which describes this printing as "Editio postrema multò quàm antehac emendatior." Evidence of Readership: Marginal notes or accents in at least two early hands have been added in ink in two dozenplus places with one page used for scribbling and content ranging from a squiggle to a word to real notes; two Latin words and the publication date in Arabic numerals under the publisher's roman have been inked to the title-page. Provenance: Early calligraphic ownership note of "Dudley" dated 1843 on binder's blank; later ownership signature of E.F. Whitehouse with the shelfmark 354 and an acquisition note including the collectorly report "It was all to bits I had it bound and consider it a great curiosity. Adams B1716; Darlow & Moule 4656a; VD16 ZV 1904; USTC 440704. Recent half brown calf and mustard buckram cloth red leather spine label lettered in gilt all edges speckled brown new endpapers; very gently rubbed one short tear at bottom gutter of binder's blank. Light age-toning and waterstaining of various darknesses throughout most of the text with the occasional spot. The title leaf has been backed with a later paper with no loss of content; interior blank only lacking as above three leaves with small interior holes affecting letters two leaves with marginal sections torn away. Readership and provenance evidence as above with some inked notes trimmed or bled onto surrounding leaves. => Read and engaged with by multiple people and all the more intriguing because of it. Ex officina Commeliniana hardcover books
