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1796rif. 31848Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. 1796. Folio 42.2 cm 16.7". 748 pp. 2 final ff. of back matter lacking; 18 plts. Bible collector's treasure: the first edition of the Berriman Bible. Noted for its excellent illustrations by several contemporary American engravers including Alexander Anderson Cornelius Tiebout Francis Shallus and William Rollinson this large and handsomely produced lectern-sized folio Bible is printed in two columns with sidenotes including scriptural cross-references and a chronology. The plates include scenes of Adam and Eve in paradise frontispiece the Egyptian midwives drowning the Hebrews' infant sons Judas Maccabaeus slaying Apolloninus and Judas betraying Christ with a kiss; the maps show the presumed historical setting of the Garden of Eden and the Holy Land. One plate in this copy "The Parting of Lot and Abraham" is bound in upside-down. Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription in upper margin: "Benjamin Morris to Samuel White Sept. 17th 1826" and with tipped-in typed slip noting presentation to a seminary by the Rev. John Cyrus Madden class of 1893 who had received the book from Charles Reifschneider a descendant of White. Spine with gilt-stamped leather label reading "Deborah Morris to" only! Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright Early Bibles of America 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506. Early 19th-century mottled sheep covers framed in blind roll spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; scuffed and rubbed gilt now mostly lost front cover with inkstain front joint cracked but holding and back one holed back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut yes cut away and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including bookplate pressure- and rubber-stamps and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate occasional spotting and smudging some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears a few with tears extending into text some with loss of a few letters. Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking one leaf crudely repaired some time ago last leaf tattered; two final leaves last portion of tables section and the subscribers list lacking with scraps of the "Table of Kindred & Affinity" laid in. => Marked by time and use still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition. Pr. by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. hardcover books
1880rif. 31077Lipsiae: Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz 1880. 8vo 22.4 cm 8.8". 1 f. 82 pp.; manuscript notes bound in. This "textum masoreticum" book of psalms i.e. the traditional Hebrew text was edited by masoretic scholar Seligman Baer 182597 and theologian Franz Delitzsch 181390 as part of their Masoretic Bible series published by Tauchnitz between 1869 and 1895. A truly => unique copy this particular volume is thickly interleaved with variously sized sheets and tabs containing the fastidious manuscript notes of published author => Walter Robert Betteridge D.D. 18631916 a notable faculty member in the Old Testament Department of the Rochester Theological Seminary who swathed page after page in minute inked marginalia and added yet more bulk with clippings from related texts annotated of course. Among the doctor's publications was an article on "The Accuracy of the Authorized Version of the Old Testament" 1911 including the Hebrew psalms. Provenance: Donated by Mrs. Betteridge to the seminary library with institutional bookplate noting this on rear pastedown. Recent black moiré silk spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Ex-library with bookplate on rear pastedown as above pressure-stamp on title-page call number in lower margin of second leaf; paper brittle dust- or sometimes soot-soiled at edges and prone to chipping. Replete with scholia this is => a stunning testament to one scholar's study of the O.T. Ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz hardcover books
1848rif. 29504New York: American Bible Society 1848. 12mo 18.1 cm 7.1". 818 pp. First edition of the first complete New Testament in Choctaw. Variously given as Chahta Chactas Chato Tchakta Chocktaw or Chactaw Choctaw is a language of the Muskogean family spoken by Native Americans who originally lived in parts of Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana before being relocated to Oklahoma. This translation was done by two Presbyterian missionaries the Revs. Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington; the Book of a Thousand Tongues says that they were "substantially assisted by Joseph Dukes and W.H. McKinney educated Choctaws." The Rev. Wright 17881853 spent over 30 years among the Choctaw people in Mississippi and Oklahoma. He founded the Wheelock Mission named in honor of either Eleazer Wheelock Dartmouth College's first president or his son John his successor as Dartmouth's president or possibly both in 1832 where he was directly involved in developing the Choctaw written language along with Byington and Dukes. Darlow & Moule 3051; Newberry Library Ayer Indians Choctaw-9; North & Nida Book of a Thousand Tongues 1972 265; Pilling Muskhogean 101; Pilling Proof-sheets 2744. Not in Field; not in Sabin. Period-style half morocco and marbled papercovered sides spine with gilt-stamped title and date. First and last pages slightly smudged text otherwise clean; a few scattered signatures unopened. A handsome copy of an uncommon and significant New Testament. American Bible Society unknown books
1823rif. 27078London: United Bible Societies 1823. 4to. 705 360 pp. Peshitta version in Jacobite script: Old Testament Apocrypha and New Testament. The text is vocalized. The editor was Samuel Lee 17831852. Darlow & Moule 8986. Recent library brown buckram slightly darkened patch to lower spine; gilt title at top and two gilt rules. Old seminary library pressure-stamp to title-page two additional light rubber-stamps pencilling on verso of title. Clean neat and strong. United Bible Societies hardcover books
1799rif. 23757Philadelphia: Pr. by A. Bartram 1799. 4to. viii xvi 488 pp.; 196 8 pp. George Campbell 171996 was a minister of the Church of Scotland theologian and principal of Marischal College. He wrote a number of theological works including a defense of miracles in response to David Hume and was noted for originality of argument as well as charity towards his opponents. This translation of the Gospels was first published in England in 1789; the work consists of a preface and preliminary dissertations the actual translation and the notes with the whole being very scholarly resorting frequently to the Greek in the dissertations and notes. Campbell's translation of the Gospels were first printed in the U.S. in 1796 and was the first privately accomplished translation of the Gospels printed in America. This is only the second edition printed in America. ESTC W4382; Evans 35200; Hills English Bible in America 71. On Campbell see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Publisher's brown leather rebacked board edges refurbished original spine-label reused. Old library pressure-stamps and a bit of pencilling stamped numberwith a properly deaccessioned. Occasional light foxing and with some marginal waterstains. Overall a rather nice copy. Pr. by A. Bartram hardcover books
1856rif. 9697New York: American Bible Society 1856. 8vo. 690 lacking 691-98 pp. Third printing of the American Bible Society's first edition of the Bible in Welsh a double-column printing with the Welsh on the left and English on the right. Darlow & Moule 9641. Contemporary sheep heavily rubbed. Front pastedown with ownership label and with small ticket from prominent collector Michael Zinman; pastedowns also with stray pencil marks. Lacking the front free endpaper and the last four leaves. Occasional margin chips resulting in losses of a few words; dried plant matter laid in. American Bible Society unknown books
1820rif. 25569Germantaun: Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer 1820. 12mo 17.3 cm 6.8". Frontis. 4 39 1 412 20 20 pp. 21/22 lacking. Third printing following the first of 1803 of the first Mennonite hymnal printed in the United States. The Psalms were translated and paraphrased under the supervision of the Franconia Mennonite Conference for the use of eastern Pennsylvania Mennonites. Music is present in the first portion though the bulk of the volume is of words. => It's an engaging fact that psalms are given in multiple versions; there are four of the 23d. Arndt and Eck cite Bender who says "This first American Mennonite Hymnbook is => not to be confused with one of similar title printed by Saur at Germantown in 1753 called erroneously by Seidensticker and Flory a Mennonite hymnbook." Each portion of this item has a separate title-page with the second section's title-page reading Sammlung altre und neuer Geistreichen Gesänge. The woodcut frontispiece depicts David playing his harp. Arndt & Eck 2419; Shoemaker 2239. Contemporary calf rebacked some time ago spine with gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels; rubbed with leather open across joints but volume still quite firm; original clasps now lacking. Front fly-leaves with early inked and pencilled inscriptions. Final leaf pp. 21/22 of the 22-page appendix of brief hymn texts not of the main portion of the work lacking. Edge nicks chips and tears some extending into text; three leaves torn in half from outer margin without loss of text; two leaves one index with lower outer corner torn away with loss of a few words; last two leaves with outer edges ragged. Some upper corners bumped. Pages browned with waterstaining to lower inner portions of about a third of the volume. Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer hardcover books
1874rif. 23871New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 8vo. xxvi 2 633 pp. The "rhythmical version" is by Tayler Lewis of Union College. "A commentary by Otto Zockler. Translated from the German with additions by Prof. L. J. Evans. Together with a general introduction to the poetical books by Philip Schaff. Publisher's black embossed cloth with decorative design on boards. Spine with extremities frayed and gilt-stamped title dimmed. Binding is shaken but in generally good condition. Ex-library: call number on binding bookplate on front pastedown. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. hardcover books
1821rif. 20163New York: Pr. for the Society by Daniel Fanshaw 1821. 8vo. vi 3 10236 pp. Includes "Extracts from the sixteenth report of the British & Foreign Bible Society ." pp. 177231. Shoemaker 4465. Removed from a nonce volume. Light foxing. Very good. Pr. for the Society, by Daniel Fanshaw unknown books
1827rif. 14103Basileae: Typis G. Haas 1827. 8vo. I vol. in 2. 1564 pp. This edition with the vocalized text. Not in Darlow & Moule. Contemporary sheep dry and rusting. Text foxed. Not a great copy but certainly decent enough. Typis G. Haas unknown books
1819rif. 7970New York: American Bible Society stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw 1819. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.5". 705 1 215 lacking 1/2 1 blank pp. Early American Bible Society Bible following its first which appeared in 1816. This stereotyped New York Bible was done from the same plates as Fanshaw's 1818 Long Primer Octavo and this 1819 example is seen institutionally far more often in microform copies than in genuine holdings. Provenance: Front cover with blind-stamped logo of the American Bible Society; title-page with inked inscription reading "Mary Ann Lanings word obscured August 24 1823." . Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title. Well used but not abused; an evocative copy. American Bible Society (stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw) hardcover books
1851rif. 25307Neo-Eboraci: sumptibus et typis Leavitt et Trow; Bostoniae: Apud Crocker et Brwester 1851. 12mo. xxviii 508 pp. A Hahn edition: "post Ioh. Aug. Henr. Tittmannum . ad fidem optimorum librorum secundis curis recognovit lectionumque varietatem notavit Augustus Hahn . Editio Americana stereotypa curante Edvardo Robinson. Hall American Greek Testaments p. 66. Ex-library copy: black buckram call number label on spine rubber stamp on title-page and other rubber stamps on endpapers and the closed edges of the volume. sumptibus et typis Leavitt et Trow; Bostoniae: Apud Crocker et Brwester hardcover books
1824rif. 6030Boston: J.H.A. Frost 1824. 12mo 18.2 cm 7.1". 379 5 1 blank pp. Early American edition of the translation by eminent Swiss Protestant Jean Frédéric Ostervald based on a Paris edition and following 1811 and 1814 U.S. printings. Likely intended for use among French Canadians and French émigrés in the United States this is a good example of an early American printing of a complete Testament either Old or New in French. Shoemaker 15382. Contemporary speckled sheep worn and abraded spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with early numerical inscription. Outer margins of last few leaves waterstained; some pages with mild cockling or light spotting others with varying degrees of age-toning. J.H.A. Frost hardcover books
1844rif. 20104Calcutta: Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society at the Baptist Mission Press 1844. 12mo. 53 pp. Third edition; translated from the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries. Title-page in Bengali and English but text solely in Bengali. Not in Darlow & Moule. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covers light boards. Front cover with printed paper title-label; one area of abrasion to front cover and another to back. Institutional bookplates on pastedowns. Clean copy. Pr. for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press hardcover books
1851rif. 25306Neo-Eboraci: Leavitt et Co. 1851. 12mo. xxviii 508 pp. A Hahn edition: "post Ioh. Aug. Henr. Tittmannum .ad fidem optimorum librorum secundis curis recognovit lectionumque varietatem notavit Augustus Hahn . Editio Americana stereotypa curante Edvardo Robinson. Not in Hall American Greek Testaments. Later black cloth; all edges gilt. Title in white on spine. Ex-library copy: remnant of call number label on spine perforation stamp on title-page. Title-page and first text leaf separated. Leavitt et Co. hardcover books
1842rif. 16088Philadelphia: Thomas Sutton 1842. 8vo. 240 pp. Hills 1153. Later 19th century quarter sheep over paper boards; worn paper over boards with water damage some bubbling chipping on board edges and chipping at head and foot of spine. A few dog-ears and tears without loss of text four pages shaved at outer edge with loss of last few letters of most lines. Moderate staining. Extensive pencil and ink notations and scribbles on endpapers some ink and pencil marks elsewhere. Front fly-leaf and rear fly-leaf and endpaper lacking. Thomas Sutton hardcover books
1855rif. 17620Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1855. 12mo. 571 1 iv 281 1 pp.; 3 maps 2 plts. Early U.S. edition of Greenfield's text edited by Joseph P. Engles and accompanied as issued by "The Polymicrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament." Provenance: One-word signature "Grainger" dated 1860; signature of Charles Louis Marbury dated 1917. Hall American Greek Testaments 17. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth a bit rubbed over extremities with scrape to front joint. Front pastedown with small bookplate of a prominent 20th-century collector; pastedown and free endpaper also with inked inscriptions. Maps age-toned attractively. A few leaves with insect damage to outer edges with loss of words to two leaves; pages clean with some corners dog-eared. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss hardcover books
1772rif. 7109Edinburgh: J. Robertson 1772. 8vo. 1 f. 346 pp. Scarce first edition of this private translation a classical Latin paraphrase of the psalms in dactylic hexameters by George Buchanan 150682 with an accompanying Latin prose version and an English translation by Andrew Waddel. ESTC T124032; not in Darlow & Moule. Ex-library: library buckram covers pressure-stamped spine with gilt title and paper shelf label. Fine chipping at head and foot of spine. Front pastedown with bookplate; rear free endpaper with charge pocket. Hinges inside open but sewing holding. Front free endpaper detached. Interior rubber-stamps including one on title-page. Lightly age-toned throughout. Some dog ears a few obscuring page number. Inked ownership inscription on title-page. J. Robertson hardcover books
1899rif. 13914New York: American Bible Society 1899. 32mo. 186 pp. Publisher's cloth wrappers front cover with gilt-stamped title; silk ribbon placemarker; all edges orange. Owner's signature at front endpaper. Pencilled marginal notations and marks and underlining throughout; notations to back blank pages. Faint offsetting from old paper inserted between several pages. Nice little book. American Bible Society hardcover books
1870rif. 4811New York: American Bible Society 1870. 8vo. 2 3-447 1 blank 2 1 blank 3-112 pp. 32nd edition." Pica type. Contemporary sheep elaborately blind-embossed covers and spine; title gilt-stamped on the spine. Front cover detached; back joint open but cover still attached; edges rubbed; piece missing from spine. Age-toning. Waterstains in lower margins. American Bible Society unknown books
1821rif. 10663Brussels 1821. 8vo 21 cm. approx. 1200 pp. Octavo reprint of the standard edition of the Bible in Flemish for the Roman Catholics of the Belgium. Issued with an engraved title-page reading: "Antwerpen op nieuw herdrukt naar de uitgave van J. Mourentorf 1599." Darlow & Moule tells that the 1599 was "a revision of the Louvain Bible based on the Clementine Vulgate of 1592 and carried out by the Theological Faculty at Louvain. This became the standard Bible of the Dutch and Flemish Roman Catholics. Darlow & Moule 3365. Later black cloth binding with paper shelving label on spine; slightly soiled. Bookplates including that of a theological seminary on the front pastedown. Fourth leaf with short tear extending slightly into text from bottom edge. Mild foxing. hardcover books
1863rif. 19275Lipsiae: F.A. Brockhaus 1863. 4to. lxxxi 148 pp. 1 plt. First edition of the non-facsimile printing of the Codex Sinaiticus a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible written between 330350. With the Codex Vaticanus Sinaiticus is one of the most valuable manuscripts for textual criticism of the Greek New Testament and for the Septuagint. Text in Greek with introductory material in Latin. One leaf is a folding facsimile of an original page of the manuscript. Not in Darlow & Moule. Modern cloth with leather spine labels. Occasional foxing. F.A. Brockhaus hardcover books
1819rif. 20142Ballston Spa N.Y.: Pr. for the Society J. Comstock printer 1819. 8vo. 15 1 pp. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume. Early private ownership signature on title-page. Very good. Pr. for the Society (J. Comstock, printer) unknown books
1796rif. 11489Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson 1796. 4to 27.7 cm 10.9". vii xvi 488 196 pp. 8 ff. Three American "firsts" here counting that of our caption! For while being additionally the uncommon first printing in America of the Gospels in English in any translation other than the King James or the Douai-Rheims version this is also the first privately accomplished translation of the Gospels printed in America. George Campbell 171996 was a minister of the Church of Scotland theologian and principal of Marischal College. He wrote a number of theological works including a defense of miracles in response to David Hume and was noted for originality of argument as well as charity towards his opponents. This translation of the Gospels was first published in England in 1789; the work consists of a preface and preliminary dissertations the actual translation and the notes with the whole being very scholarly resorting frequently to the Greek in the dissertations and notes. Provenance: Title-page and contents leaf with early inked inscriptions reading "Jas. Booth. ESTC W4383; Evans 30086; Hills English Bible in America 56. On Campbell see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary treed sheep rubbed and abraded with leather lost at corners; nicely rebacked with original label laid on. Title-page and contents inscribed as described above; endpapers waterstained and pages with light spots of foxing. Paper in many sections faintly blue. Thomas Dobson hardcover books
1818rif. 19770New York: G. Long 1818. 16mo 11.4 cm 4.5". 618 pp. Shaw & Shoemaker 43328. Contemporary sheep with modest gilt tooling on covers spine ornately gilt with gilt-stamped leather label. Leather rubbed and slightly creased over spine with a few black stains on covers otherwise clean. Some foxing and brown spotting throught. A little loss of paper on right edge of pp. 599602 but no loss of text. Several page corners folded. G. Long hardcover books
