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The front free endpaper bears an inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1868.

•  Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards, spine sunned, extremities and back cover rubbed, front cover still bright. Pages slightly age-toned, with outer edges darkened. A beautiful copy.  (26641)

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1092–95 (for other eds.).   Contemporary vellum, spine with inked title; lightly soiled, front cover with partially effaced early inked ownership inscription and back cover with faded early inked inscription. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped, front free endpaper lacking, title-page with early inked ownership inscription partially effaced (resulting in small holes). Pages age-toned, with occasional foxing.  (24349)

•  Publisher's green textured cloth modestly blind-stamped at board edges and with the ATS logo blind-embossed in the center of each cover, spine stamped and lettered in gold, now dull. Ex–social club library: call number on pastedown, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Lacks the front free endpaper and with a very few stains; overall a very nice copy.  (26267)

•  Publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, corners the slightest bit rubbed; original slipcase, this sunned and abraded with “spine” broken. Danish copyright information lined through, volume otherwise clean and quite nice internally.  (24517)

Rare: We were able to trace only one U.S. copy of this work via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.

•  NSTC 2ENG3884. Removed from a nonce volume. Light soiling and staining on title-page. Closely trimmed by binder, cutting off some sidenotes. Inked numeral in margin of title-page.

The author was a dedicated observer of meteors and comets and published several well-received works on those subjects in addition to his religious and philosophical treatises.

Rare: OCLC and ESTC locate only one U.S. holding, since deaccessioned; there are only two holdings found in the U.K.

•  ESTC T68482.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; yellow wrapper with early hand-inked title bound in. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped and a five-digit number inked twice to the first page of the preface; no other markings. First and last few leaves with minor foxing; other scattered spots mostly confined to margins. Occasional pencillled annotations.  (25768)

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•  NSTC B758. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with later gilt-stamped leather labels; spines slightly darkened, corners and spine extremities rubbed. Pencilled bracketing and marks of emphasis; some light to moderate foxing.

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Binding:  Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt with the cover incorporating an elegant emblematic device featuring Apollo/Hyperion and his horses, and the spine an angel holding a small child; the number 18 can be seen in the right raking light, stamped in blind, within the bottom element of the front cover.

•  Binding cocked, corners and spine extremities a touch rubbed. Page edges age-spotted; pages faintly and evenly age-toned. In fact a bright, handsome copy.  (23190)

student use

Darlow and Moule note that the text here is based on Stephanus's Bible, with reference to the editions of Bomberg and Mannasseh ben Israel; after Nisselius's death, the work was completed by Allart Uchtmann, who wrote the preface. The Hebrew text is vocalized and, for the most part, set fairly plainly in double columns, but it is occasionally decorated with typographical ornaments. This copy includes the additional engraved title-page, which is handsome.

•  Darlow & Moule 5133; Fuks & Fuks-Mansfeld, Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815, 48 (on Nisselius and this work, see also pp. 45–46).   Contemporary vellum, soiled; spine with early inked title and old shelving number. Front free endpaper with early inked annotations; first three leaves institutionally pressure-stamped; title-pages reinforced along inner margin; one internal blank leaf lacking. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting; roughly half of volume with light staining in upper margins. All edges red.  (26193)

“Common School Bible.”

In an attempt to promote the idea of changing the country's name from the United States of America to the United States of Columbia, Thomas used the latter nomenclature on all issues of his proudly local, non-imported production.

ESTC and OCLC locate only eight institutional holdings, all in the U.S.

•  ESTC W4503; Evans 36955; Hills 72; O'Callaghan 55 (for 1799 ed.).   Period-style calf, framed and panelled in blind rolls, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information and gilt-ruled raised bands, turn-ins blind-tooled. Two pages of Jeremiah (not consecutive) lacking. Pages age-toned with moderate staining; first and last few leaves with edge nicks, chips, and short tears; a few leaves creased; one leaf with lower margin chipped, resulting in loss of about four words. Some corners bumped or dog-eared.  (26121)

Adomeit notes that the “long run of Phinney Bibles . . . are distinctive as the majority of the cuts are portraits, which Stone suggests are portraits of neighboring farmers.” The present example is illustrated with 24 wood engravings.

Provenance:  Early inscription “Abby A. Wades Book” on front free endpaper.

•  Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A66; this ed. not in Rosenbach.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title, rubbed; spine leather cracked and front cover all but detached, but text block very sound and with all corners gently rounded in a style of the era. Endpaper with inscription above. Light to moderate foxing only.  (25208)

•  Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A71; this ed. not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title; slightly sprung, covers each with one small spot of worming, minor wear. Frontispiece recto with early pencilled inscription. Pages with some light spotting and occasional edge nicks. A nice example of this sort of production.  (25201)

•  Good in printed paper wrappers, sewing all but gone and signatures separated. (521)

•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, green, and gilt; binding slightly cocked, with light rubbing to extremities. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate ("Fifth Form English Library"); front free endpaper with small bookseller's ticket and pencilled owner's name. A clean, handsome copy. (16721)

Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black, white, and red.

•  Spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a lovely copy. Pages clean.  (26919)

educational reformer

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Provenance:  Ownership signature on front free endpaper, “Mr. Justice McDougall, Jamaica.”

Autograph manuscript addition: Tipped onto the title-page is a manuscript letter signed by Brougham, dated 1839. In this informal but warmly written letter apparently addressed to an uncle, he declines an invitation and briefly mentions “the children,” whom he thought were left safe from the measles at Paris; he had one living daughter at the time of this letter's composition, and may be referring to members of his extended family.

•  NSTC 2B51067.   Publisher's limp red cloth in imitation of morocco, yapp edges, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened with small paper label, sides with small areas of minor discoloration. All edges stained red. Front free endpaper with early inked inscription and small private pressure-stamp. Pages age-toned; one early inked correction.  (26986)

Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.

•  Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)