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1886Best.-Nr. 50292Tokyo: Tokiwaya 1886. Very good. Scarce and exceptional first edition thus a light-hearted illustrated adaptation of the Creation and story of Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis into Japanese. The story of Bible editions in Japan reflects the country's fraught history with Christianity; after the religion was banned in the early 17th century the portions printed by Catholic missionaries were lost. The ban on Christianity lifted only in the Meiji era first partially in 1873 then enshrined in the Constitution 1889 by means of an article on the freedom of religion. The post-Meiji Restoration translation effort of the Hebrew Bible began in 1882 and was finally completed in 1887. Books were completed and issued in parts with Genesis first issued in 1883. This heavily illustrated and lighthearted version of the two most famous stories from Genesis adapts the text to a well-established literary genre of Meiji Japan: KusazÅshi a forerunner of manga popular illustrated works in which the text weaves around the illustrations that dominate most spreads. Because they were meant for a popular audience the text is often primarily in hiragana or kanji with furigana; here the text is shown in three writing styles: kanji hiragana and romaji with furigana glosses. This presentation suggests how Christian mythology must have appeared to Japanese readers much as say Greek mythology seems to modern American readers of Homer. God is depicted as a mustachioed wise man while the serpent approaches Eve on legs. Most charmingly one spread depicts God spying on Adam and Eve with a pair of binoculars. While listed as the "first part" it is all published with no second volume ever appearing. We find only two copies at the National Diet Library and at Waseda University. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original printed wrappers. Woodblock printed and illustrated including 16 double-page spreads. Title page matching illustrated cover printed on red metallic-speckled paper. 39 1 pages. Some staining and wear to wrappers with 2.5'' paper repair to rear wrapper verso. Black ink calligraphy to versos of both wrappers. Housed in custom blue cloth chemise. [Tokiwaya] unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 23537London: The Haymarket Press 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated with four color plates by W Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties else a very good copy. The extra suite of plates has been mounted on blank pages leaving a small adhesive discoloration on the margin of the plates and on the supporting page. . The Haymarket Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 23542Kentfield CA: The Allen Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of Genesis. Asian green endshets and guards for the illustratioms. Bound in Fortuna cloth in an Iranian design hand blocked in Venice. 24 illustrations engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Title in green and brown woodcuts printed in brown; green and orange used for highlights in the text. The endsheets are lightly faded from the adhesive else this is a fine copy housed in the original slipcase. One of 140 copies. Allen Press Bibliography No. 35. . The Allen Press hardcover books
1580Best.-Nr. 68068London: Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie 1580. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BARKER ChristopherHERREY Robert F. A 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1611Best.-Nr. 17388London: Robert Barker 1611. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. The First and Second Books of Kings complete in 36 leaves. The first page is the final page of the previous book 2 Samuel; on the reverse begins 'The First Booke of the Kings commonly called The third Booke of the Kings'. 36pp. followed by 'The Second Booke of the Kings commonly called The fourth Booke of the Kings' 35pp. The final page ends II Kings and begins I Chronicles. Printed in black letter woodcut initials. Recent binding of quarter calf gilt titles Cockerell marbled paper boards. Some remargining no loss and old stains else a very good copy in a fine binding The binder's notes itemize the steps in rebinding including leaf disinfectant for the stains. Darlow & Moule 240. Robert Barker hardcover books
1818Best.-Nr. 17093Edinburgh: 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
1613Best.-Nr. 69661London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker 1613. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties Speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie 1613-1611. Second folio edition of the King James Bible also known as the "Great She Bible." Large folio 14 11/16 x 10 inches; 372 x 253 mm. 752 leaves. Fifty-nine lines. Text in double columns within woodcut rules. Black letter with roman for chapter summaries and roman and italic for marginalia. Calendar and almanac printed in red and black. Woodcut title border McKerrow and Ferguson 231 signed RL and CS. Genealogical tables with woodcut borders and incorporating woodcut illustrations including Adam and Eve Noah's Ark the Tower of Babel and other biblical subjects. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative and historiated woodcut initials. Facsimile of the 1611 "He" Bible engraved title inserted. Complete with Speed's map map professionally restored. Collation: A-B4 A1r general title A2r dedication to King James I A3v "The Translators to the Reader" A-C6 Speed's Genealogies C6 D4 C1r calendar printed in red and black D1r almanac printed in red black D1v Easter table printed in red and black D2r table and calendar D4v books of the Bible printed in red and black Complete with Ee2 Speed's Map A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 Aaa-Zzz6 Aaaa-Zzzz6 Aaaaa-Ccccc6 Old Testament and Apocrypha; A-2Z6 Aa6 New Testament. In this copy the Genealogies are bound before rather than after the calendar. Late eighteenth-century panelled calf neatly rebacked. Spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpapers. General title restored at margins. Some marginal restoration minor repairs and paper faults touching only a few letters throughout. Generally an exceptionally fresh and clean copy of this monumental work. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. "Fry's 'first edition second issue without reprints' of King James' Bible. Others more correctly style it the 'second folio edition 1613 11' inasmuch as it deserves to be reckoned a distinct edition. The general title is usually dated 1613 though the NT title bears the date 1611" Herbert. Commonly known as the "Great She Bible" for the more correct reading "she went into the citie" in Ruth III. 15 and also for the remarkable error in Matthew XXVI. 36 leaf where "Judas" appears for "Jesus." Sometimes a correction slip is pasted over the mistake but in the present copy it is corrected in an early hand. "The King James Bible or the Authorized Version as it is now commonly but not strictly accurately known was the outcome of the conference summoned at Hampton Court by the King in January 1604 in an attempt to settle the quarrels in the Church of England arising from the Puritan zeal of some of its members. It was the leader of the Puritan party John Reynolds the President of Corpus Christi College Oxford who first suggested the idea of a new translation.It has been described as 'the only literary masterpiece ever to have been produced by a committee' and was the work of nearly fifty translators organized in six groups.Being based on a wider range of classical and oriental scholarship than its predecessors the Authorized Version was a more learned text.No new English translation was produced until the Revised Version of 1881 and the influence of the Authorized Version may best be described in the words of G.M. Trevelyan. 'For every Englishman who had read Sidney or Spenser or had seen Shakespeare acted at the Glove there were hundreds who had read or heard the Bible with close attention as the words of God. The effect of the continual domestic study of the book upon the national character imagination and intelligence for nearly three centuries to come was greater than that of any literary movement in our annals or any religious movement since the coming of St Augustine'" Printing and the Mind of Man 114 describing the 1611 first edition. "The translators were directed to take the rendering of the Bishops' Bible as their basis and were advised also to consult the following versions: Tyndale's Matthew's Coverdale's Whitchurch's i.e. the Great Bible and the Geneva" Herbert 309 describing the 1611 first edition. John Speed was granted a patent in 1610 for ten years to issue and insert his "Genealogies" and double-page general map engraved by Elstrack in every edition of this Bible. Darlow & Moule 246. Herbert 319. Pforzheimer 63. STC 2224. W.E. Smith "A Study of the Great She Bible" The Library 2 1890: 1-11 96-102 141ff. HBS 69661. $175000. Imprinted...by Robert Barker unknown books
1843Best.-Nr. 618422New York: American Bible Society 1843. Softcover. Very Good. Stated reprint. Slim octavo. 16pp. Sewn wrappers. Modest wear and light foxing throughout very good and sound. Very uncommon. American Bible Society unknown books
1853Best.-Nr. 69294Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; LEESER Isaac. LEESER Isaac translator. The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Masoretic Text on the Basis of the English Version after the best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short Explanatory Notes. By Isaac Leeser. Hebrew "For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed." Dent. xxxi 21. Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853. Full Description: BIBLE IN ENGLISH. LEESER Isaac translator. The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Masoretic Text on the Basis of the English Version after the best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short Explanatory Notes. By Isaac Leeser. Hebrew "For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed." Dent. xxxi 21. Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853. First edition of the first complete translation of the Old Testament by a Jewish translator into English building upon Leeser's 1845 translation of the five books of the Pentateuch translation in 1845-1846. Folio 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 275 x 212 mm. Original full brown morocco. Boards ruled and elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Binding with some restoration along joints and edges. A bit of foxing mainly to the preliminaries. Some occasional light dampstaining. Overall a very good copy. "Having published a five-volume Pentateuch-cum-haftarot lections from the Prophets translation in 1845-1846 as well as a complete vocalized and accentuated Hebrew Bible in 1848 the first such edition published in the U.S. he proceeded from April 1852 to September 1853 to extend his translation efforts to the entire Hebrew Bible. The result was his Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures the first translation of all of Tanakh into English by a Jew complete with short explanatory notes. Leeser explained in the preface to his magnum opus that he undertook the project in order to provide Anglophone Jewry with a vernacular version of the Bible "which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they can have no confidence" pp. iii-iv. The book achieved wide popularity among English-speaking Jews and even some Gentiles especially in America and went through multiple editions." Sotheby's "The translation of the Bible was Leeser's great literary achievement and represented many years of patient labor and devotion to a task which he considered sacred. Leeser was not fully equipped for this work for he was no specialist in Hebrew philology nor a master if Jewish learning in general and he was quite conscious of his shortcomings but he was inspired. He says in his preface: 'I thought in all due humility that I might safely go to task confidently relying upon that superior aid which is never withheld from the inquirer after truth.' He made good use of the various German translations by Jews of the collective commentary known as the Biur vol. III sec. 81 and of other Jewish exegetic works. As a result his translation though based in style upon the King James version can be considered an independent work for the changes he produced are numerous and great. His prime concern was to supply the traditional interpretation when necessary and the retention of the Jewish spirit at times even at the expense of beauty of style. The translation went through numerous editions and until the new Jewish Publication Society version was issued in 1917 it was the only source from which many Jews not conversant with Hebrew derived their knowledge of the Bible in accordance with Jewish tradition" Waxman History of Jewish Literature 1090. HBS 69294. $12500. [Isaac Leeser] unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 7040London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper twelve copies on vellum were also produced printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv 1 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates including frontispiece by Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 each with a printed tissue guard. Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall. Ink gift inscription dated 1918 and mid-twentieth century ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf. A Fine bright copy. Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 was an accomplished painter and illustrator. His painting The Death of Abel held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is considered his most enduring work. "This work was the source of an illustration for The Book of Genesis published by the Riccardi Press in 1914; together with another masterpiece The Death of Rachel it constitutes his finest achievement as a book illustrator" ODNB. Robinson's illustrations for The Book of Genesis epitomize his melancholy style which reflected the influence of both ornate art deco aesthetics and the somber clarity of the Symbolist movement. Fine. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
1763Best.-Nr. 69256Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BASKERVILLE John. BASKERVILLE John. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. 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. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763. Full Description: BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: 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. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763. First edition with the list of subscribers in the third state ending with "The Hon. Charles York Esq; Attorney General." Two large folio volumes in one 19 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 480 x 311 mm. Complete with 573 leaves. Text ends on leaf 13E1 and is followed by an Index and Tables a-e f1. List of subscribers bound in after title-page and dedication. Text in double columns. Beautifully bound in early 19th-century full diced tan calf. Boards elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt and blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front board lettered in gilt reading "John Miles/ West End/ Hampstead." Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Gilt dentelles. Back board with some very mild scuffing and a tiny bit of worming to head of board and at top and bottom of outer hinge. Some light foxing to first title-page and preliminary leaves but text is very clean. With the dates of births and deaths of the Miles family in old ink manuscript on the front free endpaper. Overall a very good clean copy. Originally priced four guineas in sheets for subscribers "the edition consisted of 1250 copies of which 556 were remaindered in 1768 and bought by the London bookseller R. Baldwin at 36s. each.Baldwin was offering copies at three guineas in sheets in 1771" Gaskell. "One of the most beautifully printed books in the world" Dibdin. This edition "has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen" T.B. Reed A History of the Old English Letter Foundries p. 279. Gaskell declared that the title-page to the New Testament is "a perfect page of fine printing." Although the Baskerville Bible is now recognized as one of the greatest Bibles of all time it was initially a financial failure. Costing £2000 to print the remaining stock about half of the edition was remaindered five years after publication to a London bookseller. It was Baskerville's last great book. "Aesthetically the highest point in English Bible printing so far was John Baskerville's folio printed at Cambridge in 1763. To achieve his ambition to print a folio Bible Baskerville had to become University Printer on not very advantageous terms. The Bible uses his types paper and ink and shows his characteristic 'machine-made' finish: very smooth and even in colour and impression with glossy black ink on smooth paper. The design is traditional but the quality of material and workmanship is so high and the conventions are so delicately modified and consistently applied that the result is extremely impressive" The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day p. 464. Darlow & Moule 857. ESTC T93106. Gaskell Baskerville 26. Herbert 1146. Huntington Library Great Books in Great Editions 6. HBS 69256. $15000. Printed by John Baskerville unknown books
1795Best.-Nr. 6211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine. A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club. ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown books
1554Best.-Nr. 6212Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1554. First edition. Octavo 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 171 x 121 mm. . 16 1152 76 pp bound without the last two blank leaves as in most copiese.g. Mortimer OCLC. The penultimate leaf had only a fleuron at the foot of the page and the final leaf was blank. Arabesque title border and 198 with 1 repeat woodcuts in the text by Bernard Salomon. Title-page with faint early ink "ex-Libris petri ------ at top blank margin. Title-page expertly cleaned some occasional mainly marginal faint foxing otherwise a superb example of this wonderfully illustrated mid sixteenth-century Latin Bible. Bound ca. 1880 by Chambolle-Duru in full brown crushed levant morocco spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt gilt ruled board edges decorative gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edge gilt. Armorial bookplate "In Memori: Weiler Bibliotheca Trautner Falkiana" on verso of front free endpaper. First De Tournes Latin Bible based on Robert Estienne's text and beautifully illustrated with 198 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. "Considerable work could be done on Salomon's sources for these cuts. The Expulsion from Paradise suggests Holbein's version; the New Testament shows some dependence on the set owned by Sébastien Gryphius. the Apocalypse blocks are enlarged copies of the fine Janot Apocalypse. But the cumulative effect of Salomon's carefully detailed scenes is that of an individual contribution to Bible illustration. Particularly interesting from the point of view of technique are the night scenes in Exodus and the storm over Noah's ark. In this 1554 Bible the New Testament blocks are printed with arabesque strip borders at the sides. Arabesque and type ornament headpieces." Mortimer Contents include: Old Testament; Psalms; New Testament Epistles Acts; Index Testimoniorum & Index Epistolarum. Robert I Estienne 1503-1559 was a French protestant printer and scholar born into a printmaking family. He would take over his family's Paris firm in 1526 where he printed significant works in Latin Greek Hebrew and other languages. His 1531 Thesaurus linguae latinae is considered a major milestone in lexicography. Despite his many commissions for the King religious tensions forced Estienne to flee to Geneva. This bible was illustrated by Bernard Salomon c.1508-1561 a French artist who is known for engravings and illustrations. Although little is known about his life his art reveals stylistic influences from Mannerism and the School of Fontainebleau executed in a detailed and small scale. Salomon is known to have collaborated with the printer Jean de Tournes and produced decoration for emblem books bibles and classic texts. Many of his engravings also appear as source material for art objects such as a Faience plate at the MET featuring the Sacrifice of Noah. Brunet I 876 & Supplement I 125; Darlow & Moule 6134 note; Mortimer French no. 81. Jean de Tournes unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 9759gcsNew York: Ward & Drummond 1879. Octavo blue illustrated cloth hardcover gilt letters tissue-protected frontis. 216 pp. Fair with edgewear penciled marks to endpapers ffep. excised. Illustrations. Ward & Drummond, 1879. hardcover books
1907Best.-Nr. 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
1611Best.-Nr. 167691611. King James First Edition Bible Single Leaf Page from King James bible-page from the book of Luke 13:15-15:1 -the narrow gate - nf. London 1611- printed by Robert Barker printer to the king's excellent majesty in London 1639. First edition fifth and final issue. Leaf Measure 16 1/4 " x 10 3/4 " on heavy weight cotton linen paper. 59 lines of text to the full page. Printed in beautiful old English gothic blackletter type font. the book of luke. Recto contains Luke 13:15 - 14:6 the strait gate & dropsie healed; verso contains Luke 14:7 - 15:1 the great supper & unsavory salt. The King James Bible was the English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England commissioned in 1604 and completed as well as published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VI and I. Noted for its "majesty of style" the King James Version has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world. Near fine Herbert # 543. unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 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
1529Best.-Nr. 66850Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin 1529. BIBLE IN LATIN. 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 Jerome's 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 Fürstenfeld. 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. Crespin's blocks with the exception of the Creation are close copies of those used in Jacques and Jean Mareschal's 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 "PBA." Fairfax Murray French 36. Harvard French 66. Not in Brunet Rothschild Darlow and Moule. HBS 66850. $9500. Per Johanem Crespin unknown books
1810Best.-Nr. 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
1857Best.-Nr. 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
1991Best.-Nr. 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
1787Best.-Nr. 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
1895Best.-Nr. 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
1788Best.-Nr. 375629Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1788. Numerous woodcut illustrations including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. Modern calf red morocco lettering piece. Repair to final leaf affecting the final three lines frontispiece paper-backed with repaired tears and small area of loss in the image a few leaves likely supplied from another copy. Numerous woodcut illustrations including full-page frontispiece. 144pp. 12mo. A cornerstone for any collection of American children's books American illustration or American Bibles this classic children's book is an American reprinting of the edition first published by Hodgson in London in 1783. Containing nearly 500 illustrations it is the first Bible printed in the United States specifically for children. The rebus format of the small volume presents the young reader with famous Bible stories in an amusing format that encourages reading puzzle solving and Bible study. "A touchstone of eighteenth-century American book illustration this 'curious' children's Bible contains nearly five hundred woodcuts made by American artists. The most ambitious woodcut book produced in America up to that time it is one of the sixty-five children's book titles produced by the pioneer publisher of children's literature and preeminent early American printer Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 who had learned the art of engraving while apprenticed in his youth to the Boston printer Zechariah Fowle" American Treasures of the Library of Congress online exhibition. Complete copies of the first hieroglyphic and children's Bible printed in America are very rare with even Brinley's copy lacking a leaf. This is a book that saw extremely heavy use and given its young audience inevitable if often loving misuse. Welch 510; Rosenbach 128; Evans 20961; O'Callaghan p.33; Hamilton 122; Rumball-Petre 167; Brinley 5805; Sabin 17990. Not in Hills Isaiah Thomas unknown books
