1875580p. Ruled in black throughout. Inked ownership of Margaret Carey Worthington Bonner, Christ Church, Cooperstown, NY, Oct. 5, 1881. With love and best wishes from S. H. S. All edges gilt. 128 mm. Original black flexible leather binding embossed in blind. Yapp edges worn with loss. RELIGION BOX 10
190715p. Musical scores. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Publisher's advertisements on rear wrapper. Nice copy. CPHAM/W71C1 x2c
1810Two Works Bound In One Volume: pp. (10), (26) [Table of Lessons], 372; 226, (4) [Table]. In the Book Of Common Prayer title page and first leaf small loss on fore edge, no loss of text. Also page 211 torn with small loss of text. Lacks two leaves after title page of Psalms. Various pagination. Lacks fly leaves. Double column. Browned but not brittle. Age stain. 8vo. 220 mm. Virtually disbound: Worn leather boards, old paper spine repair very worn. Front board detached. S&S/AI 21148. Poor. AI BX 4
1794Two Books Bound In One. Double column. The Book of Common Prayer is unpaginated, but complete (370 p.). The added Book of Psalms: pp. (1-3) 4-74. 12mo. (in 6's). Some examples in this size are in 12s and 6s. We have found none that are recorded as being fully in 6s. 176 mm. Original worn purple leather binding. Gilt decorated leather spine detached, but present. Rear board detached. Corners worn with loss. Early manuscript ownership of Harriett Lucas Pickney and F. R. Hugar on title page of the Book of Common Prayer. Manuscript notes on verso of title page record of General Thomas Pickney's family captured from his family Bible by F. R. Hugar, information covers the General's marriage 1779 and through various births and deaths until 1848. Other (Huger) Pickney manuscript notes from the 1920's recto of the Preface. Double column throughout. Marbled endpapers. Slight margin loss on in sig A of Book of Common Prayer. Mild damp stain last few signatures of The Whole Book of Psalms. Hardbound. In 1789 the American Episcopal church adopted its first version of the Book of Common Prayer, which was used from 1790 until a major revision was completed in 1892. During this time, several editions of the Book of Common Prayer were published with corrections and other minor changes, of which this 1793 edition was the first. No priority has been established for the several 1793 Gaine varieties and variants. Because of format differences with those found in the record, we think that this is an unrecorded variant (closely allied to: Evans/Shipton & Mooney 26043; Griffiths 1793:11). Rare and Important. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 4
1867620p. Inked and penciled ownership of J. A. Gloninger (from Lebanon, PA) on title page and endpaper. Large 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Spine label. Raised bands. Extremeties scuffed. Hardbound. Very Good. L20
1843pp. 283; 105. Title pages ruled in black. First title page very browned with slight insect damage to foredge. Double column. Very foxed. 16mo. 160 mm. Original black leather binding, worn. Front board stamped 'From the Bishop White Prayer Book Society.' Corners worn with slight loss. Small loss on spine. Hardbound. Good. AI 43-4196 (with incorrect pagination). PAIMP 25
1866Book of Common Prayer and Psalter bound together in one volume: pp. 651; 141. Light foxing. 24mo. 145 mm. Original black leather binding. Spine worn with loss at head and tail. Front board detached. Hardbound. Good. PAIMP 25
1797pp. 572, [22] Register); 56 (Die Kleine Harfe). Some musical notation. 12 mo. 170 mm. German Fraktur text. Old stains. Original full leather binding over wooden boards, with braided bands, without clasps. **Early autograph ownerships of: Valentine Pressel (1739-1807) York County, PA / and John Priess. 'The larger Psalterspiel, of which the second edition appeared 1729 in Schaffhausen, contained 1047 hymns on 849 pages. Of these a selection was published as the small Psalterspiel, mainly for the use of the 'Inspired'. The American reprint became quite popular with some sects, Dunkers, Mennonites, etc., as is evidenced by the numerous editions of the book (1744, 1760, 1764, 1777, 1781, 1795, 1797, 1813, 1829)' -Seidensticker. The First Century of German printing in America, p. 23; Evans 31815; Reichmann. German Printing in Maryland 42; Brethren Bibliography 49; Hinks KDP-1797-B. JUN_GER1
1995311 pages. Also includes 150 psalms in the King James Version. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book
198580p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1825310,272p. 16mo. 10 cm. (4 in.) Hardcover Very good condition in full calf, front free endpaper lacking, inner hinge cracked
1900Light foxing to some pages. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Clean tight pages with dulled unmarked boards, fraying to spine foot and minor rubbing to corners. 288pp. Choral music and songs taken from the Psalms. Undated ca 1900.
1746In 4°; pp. (2), 232, (4), Legaura in pelle verde con cornice e fregi dorati ai piatti e fregi i n oro al dorso. All’interno leggermente brunito.
1844ref. mon0000093629Oxford University Press Sold y 1844-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1828 edition printed by samuel collingwood on leather cloth with rebound spine cover Oxford University Press, Sold y hardcover
1823ref. 21266521823. Boston: John B. Russell. 1823. 12mo. Nineteenth-century red straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt and blind to a foliate design narrow gilt morocco lettering-piece 'Geo. A. Kendall. 79.' applied vertically to upper board spine gilt in compartments marbled edges and endpapers; pp. 360; tipped-in errata slip at end; corners bumped joints lightly rubbed; lightly toned throughout sporadic light spotting some thumb-marks large portion of rear flyleaf torn away; otherwise a very good copy.First edition of this psalm book and hymnal for the use of Boston's Congregationalist Old West Church featuring numerous psalms and hymns heavily revised by the local community in a handsome binding for George A. Kendall of Boston dated 1879.A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship was a successor to A Collection of Hymns More Particularly Designed for the Use of the West Society in Boston 1782 which subsequently appeared in 1782 1803 1806 and 1813. It is thought to have been edited by Reverend Simeon Howard 1733-1804 minister of Boston's Old West Church after Jonathan Mayhew who was notable for his criticism of tyrannical British rule as early as 1750. The collection contained 166 hymns Foote 1; this 1823 edition contains over fifty psalms and nearly three hundred hymns by the likes of Watts Doddridge Barbauld Steele and Tate and Brady as well as Sir Walter Scott 'When Israel of the Lord Beloved' and numerous hymns translated from German or Italian.'In giving the names of the authors it should be stated that many of the psalms and hymns have undergone alterations in the hands of different compilers; and that in some of them but few of the original features remain. In this collection many alterations have been adopted and other alterations made. Those which were written or translated for this work or which are now first introduced into such a collection are marked thus . Those which are supposed to have been original in the former collection used in the West Church or to have then been first introduced into such a work are marked thus ' p. 3. Amongst the ten pieces marked with an asterisk are 'My god! The sovereign of my will' and 'The Lord our God's a stable Tower' translated from the German by G.B. the latter 'from the German of Luther'. Foote 10. unknown
2011ref. DADAX197870318XFortress Academic 2020-11-16. hardcover. New. 6.33x0.93x9.02. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Fortress Academic hardcover
1970ref. G0690841418I3N10Collier Macmillan Canada Incorporated 1970. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Collier Macmillan Canada, Incorporated hardcover
1677ref. 55872Paris Helie Josset 1677. Contemp. full red morocco. Richly gilt spine. Gilt panelling on covers with gilt cornerpieces. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Some wear to upper hinge and spineends. Corners bumped. Engraved frontispiece. 844610 pp. Light yellowing to leaves. unknown
ref. SONG0827606303Jewish Publication Society 0000-00-00. Revised. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.25x0.75x9.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Jewish Publication Society hardcover
ref. 122179Leiden Plantin Press 1595. . 24mo 12.5 x 8 cm; later vellum binding some browning but otherwise clean pages; text in Hebrew 126 ll. Scarce early edition of the Book of Psalms vocalised and with cantillation. Every fifth verse indicated with a letter. Ginzei Yisrael 1850; Vinograd Leiden 15. Leiden, Plantin Press, 1595. hardcover
ref. 124311London Printed at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesttie and by the Assignes of John Bill 1632-1633. . Four works in 1 vol.; folio 35.5 x 23.5 cm; engraved general title signed 'Guilielmus Hole' partially burnished out as noted by ESTC with date in imprint altered to read '1633' on the plate engraved NT title dated 1632 full-page woodcut illustration of Adam & Eve to verso of A10 final f. of preliminaries note ff A7-8 with incorrect printed signatures as A6-7 woodcut initials head and tailpieces further illustrated with Speed's genealogies and double-page map of Canaan occasional toning final f. of Psalmes laid down title of Common Prayer affixed via stub Speed map with loss to central portion of design with final f. reinforced to verso at gutter margin and tape repair to margin A1 of Old Testament with closed tear crudely repaired lower margin of Adam & Eve woodcut with tape repair not affecting design some further closed repairs throughout later endpapers; contemporary calf gilt lozenge device to covers bisecting the initials 'I' and 'E' gilt faded upper brass clasp in working order remnants of the lower clasp joints and corners expertly restored very good. A very well preserved folio edition of the King James Bible complete in the original clasped calfskin binding with Speed's Genealogies including his double-page engraved map of Canaan The Book of Common Prayer and Sternhold & Hopkins' Psalmes. The elaborate title border is that engraved by William Hole d.1624 which had been used before in the folio Geneva Bible of 1607. 'As a copperplate-engraver Hole remained a specialist in engraving maps music and lettering. and he stands at the head of the seventeenth-century tradition of engravers who worked for writing-masters. He engraved the plates to Martin Billingsley's The Pens Excellencie or The Secretaries Delighte of 1618 the first important English engraved copybook dedicated to Charles as Prince of Wales and he was also responsible for the first engraved plates of music made outside Italy: the famous Parthenia of 161213 which contained music by William Byrd John Bull and Orlando Gibbons and Angelo Notari's Prime musiche nuove of 1613' ODNB. Our example a variant with the date in the imprint of the engraved general title altered on the plate to read '1633'. ESTC S122379 variant; Herbert 466; DM 359. London, Printed at London by Robert Barker, Printer to [the] Kings most excellent Ma[jes]ttie and by the Assignes of John Bill, unknown
ref. 124312London Printed by John Field 1648. . 4to 24 x 18 cm; without the Apocrypha engraved general title slightly cropped at foot of engraved area with the sculpture's signature just cut through and re-margined later inscriptions in pen to margins letterpress NT title text block toned with some damp-staining to gutter margin of first 6 quires occasional spotting; 17th century dark brown goatskin the covers panelled in gilt with filets and a roll between the panels tooled in blind with fern fronds adorned with engraved-silver centre and corner pieces and clasps in full working order the upper centrepiece with monogram 'AA' the lower with engraved armorial device of three mullets of six points all pierced within a lozenge border rebacked preserving the original gilt spine which has been laid down all edges gilt the lower spine-side corner piece of the lower board loose from fitting a little rubbed overall an excellent example. Finely bound in gilt-panelled brown morocco furnished in silver. The King James Version splendidly preserved in an English Restoration binding of gilt-panelled dark brown morocco furnished in silver with engraved centrepieces bearing the monogram 'AA' and the armorial device of three mullets or six points pierces cornerpieces and clasps in full working order. Binding 'furniture' originally served a functional purpose with bosses and cornerpieces helping to protect the covers from wear and tear and clasps employed to prevent the parchment leaves of manuscript books from warping. The advent of paper and the movement away from wood to pasteboard had largely made these features redundant by the end of the seventeenth century. Instead as here metalwork survived as a decorative feature which enhanced the binding of important devotional works whilst also helping to keep these texts which were more likely to be carried about secure see David Pearson English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 pp26-30. Our example is bound without the Apocrypha. Darlow and Moule note that the Apocrypha in their example no. 469 is possibly supplied from another edition and that a different copy is lacking the Apocrypha. ESTC R37304; Herbert 605; DM 469; Wing B2225A. London, Printed by Joh[n] Field, 1648. unknown
ref. 121607Brunn Joseph Rosmann 1798. . First edition 8vo 22 x 17.5 cm contemporary goat-backed boards severely rubbed spine chipped but holding; various ownersip inscriptions in old ink to endleaves; 1 118 ll. The first linear translation of the Book of Psalms into poetic Yiddish. Text in Hebrew with translation by Falk Cohen from Roztocze. Printed in wayber-taytsch typeface in double columns. Vinograd Brunn 68. Brunn, Joseph Rosmann, 1798. hardcover
ref. 80947-83New. unknown
1516ref. 371021Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus 1516. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards boards with repeated roll of hound hunter and stag spine with floral tools. Clasps perished early repairs with vellum at lower corners; spine darkened with chip at foot joint starting wormholes to the covers. Toning throughout worm holes throughout but heavier to the preliminary and terminal leaves paper loss not affecting text at the lower outer corners of the first 3 leaves minor dampstaining at the lower corners of most leaves and extending from the top inner margin. Scattered early marginalia. Title printed in red and black within woodcut arabesque border printer's device on final leaf. Parallel text in Hebrew Latin Greek Arabic and Chaldaean Aramaic 4 columns to a page 41 lines. 13 woodcut floriated initials. A10 B-Z8 &8 con6; 200 leaves complete. Folio 13-1/8 x 9-3/8 inches. The Genoa Psalter also known as the Octaplum or Quadruplex Psalter was the first polyglot psalter to be published and the first polyglot edition of any part of the Bible. Financed by the Oriental language scholar Bishop Agostino Giustiniani and printed in Genoa in 1516 it presents the psalms laid out in eight columns i.e. four per page on double-page spreads: in Hebrew a Latin paraphrase the Vulgate Latin the Septuagint Greek Arabic Chaldean Aramaic a Latin paraphrase and the editor's notes. "A monument of Renaissance typography this Psalter was linguistically the most ambitious work attempted to date and the first Polyglot work ever published. It provides the Psalms in five languages as well as a marginal scholarship based largely on rabbinic sources. The Arabic text is one of the first two texts and the first biblical text ever printed in this language. The Hebrew types used in this book were apparently never used again" B. Sabin Hill Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust The Piermont Morgan Library 1989 no. 18. Notably within a lengthy editor's note to Psalm XIX is what is considered the first printed biography of Christopher Columbus along with a very early description of his voyage. A native son of Genoa Giustiniani presents the discovery of the new world as a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy appropriately glossing verse four of Psalm XIX to include his biography of Columbus: "Their sound is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." The text of the biography of Columbus written a decade after his death includes a brief account of his childhood and continues at length on his discovery of America. Translated from the Latin it begins: "And so their words have reached unto the ends of the earth at least in our own times in which by the marvelous daring of Christopher Columbus of Genoa almost another world was discovered and joined to the community of Christians. And since Columbus often declared that he was chosen by God so that through him this prophecy would be fulfilled I did not consider it unsuitable to include his life here. Therefore Christopher surnamed Columbus a Genoese by birth . lived in our age and through his own efforts explored more lands and seas in a few months than almost all other mortals had done throughout all previous ages . More swiftly than the Portuguese had done he approached new lands and new peoples and at last penetrated regions unknown before now. The news of this matter quickly reached the King who - both out of rivalry with the Portuguese kings and a desire for such new marvels and glory that might accrue to him and his descendants - after long discussions with Columbus finally ordered two ships to be outfitted. With these Columbus set sail from the Fortunate Islands directing his course slightly off the western line . After many days of sailing they had covered great distances. While the others having lost all hope urged a change in course Columbus persisted asserting by reason and conjecture that continuing but a little longer might lead them to discover continents or islands. Nor was he wrong. On the following dawn they sighted land. From this event immense confidence arose in human minds. Later it was learned that these were islands and observations were made of certain peoples there uncultivated and prone to raids on their neighbors even devouring human flesh like wolves. There were violent encounters yet eventually some of these islanders were brought safely to Spain astonishing and delighting all who saw them because they were at first timid unfamiliar with approach easy to persuade and marveling at everything as new." An important and desirable work from a liturgical linguistic and historical perspective. Adams B1370; BM STC Italian p. 97; Darlow & Moule 1411; Sabin 66468; European Americana 516/4; Harrisse BAV 88; JCB 3 I:64; Smitskamp 236; Roper Early Arabic Printing in Europe in Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution p. 132; Vinograd Genoa 1. Provenance: Cenobii Alois 1570 inscription below title; Bibliotheca Regia Monacensi pencil inscription on the inside front board identifying it as a duplicate; General Theological Seminary ink and blindstamps and other markings Petrus Paulus Porrus unknown
