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Leaf, 1611:
The
Stages of Israel's
Journey
& the Borders of
Canaan
Bible. English. 1611. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). Leaf extracted from the Old Testament of the first edition of the King James Version of the Bible. [London: 1611]. Folio (40.1, 15.75"cm). [1] f.
$250.00
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Numbers 33:6–34:20, from the first edition of the English translation best known to the vast majority of the English-speaking world. The text is printed in large English black-letter (i.e., gothic type) with the occasional use of roman, composed in double-column format with 59 lines per column; present on this leaf is one large woodcut initial “A” on a field of foliage.
Disbound. Inner edge with small nicks; very unobtrusive creasing to lower corners (from the original press run?); otherwise in beautiful condition. (25835)
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Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. 1805. Merrick. A version of the Psalms ... formed into stanzas, and divided into short portions, for the use of the Church ... the seventh edition. London: Pr. by C. Rickaby for Messrs. Rivingtons; Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme; Leigh & Sotheby; et al., 1805. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). [4], 389, [1 (blank)] pp.
$275.00
Seventh edition of the William Dechair Tattersall’s revision. Originally printed in 1765, James Merrick’s rhymed English translations were described by one contemporary review (quoted by Allibone) as “too poetical for ordinary public worship, but . . . highly gratifying for private use to persons of cultivated taste.” The popular work went through a number of editions and issues; in the present rendition, the paraphrases appear “formed into stanzas, and divided into short portions” by the Rev. Tattersall.
Binding: Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title. All edges gilt.
NSTC B2162; Lowndes, Bibliographer’s Manual, 2002 (for 1798 Tattersall ed.); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 1269 (likewise). Binding as above, spine and outer edge of front cover darkened, joints and edges with moderate shelf wear. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate and donor bookplate; front free endpaper reverse with inked ownership inscription and pencilled inscription dated 1814; title-page with small inked initials in upper outer corner. Light foxing. In fact quite nice.

PIRATED! Thumb Bible
Bible. English. Selections and Paraphrases. History of the Bible. New-London: W. & J. Bolles, 1831. 32mo (5.3 cm, 2"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 192 pp.; illus.
$300.00
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Thumb Bibles were a favorite gift or reward for children during the late 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, but they were enough of a curiosity that they also found audiences among other classes of readers and collectors as well. Miniature books, with page measurements not exceeding 2" x 1 1/2", their text is composed of paraphrased versions of famous Bible stories or passages. Because these books were most commonly owned, read, and played with by children, they suffered heavy and rough use and saw a great rate of destruction.
The 24 wood engravings illustrating the present example are identical to those found in the Phinney thumb Bibles (which Adomeit says are “distinctive as the majority of the cuts are portraits, which Stone suggests are portraits of neighboring farmers”) — and indeed, this entire offering appears to have been pirated from Phinney by Bolles, one of three New London publishers known for such practices.
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)
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Pocket
New Testament
— New Hampshire,
1831
Bible. N.T. English. 1831. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.... Exeter, N.H.: James Derby, 1831. 32mo (11.1 cm, 4.375"). 259, [1 (blank)] pp.
$150.00


“Stereotyped by the publisher,” this 32mo pocket New Testament is printed in two columns in small type set 16 lines to the inch.
O’Callaghan 213; Hills 765; not in Herbert. Straight-grained roan, covers gilt-ruled and spine gilt extra; rubbed, especially on spine, and corners bumped. Pp. 5–6 and 229–30 chipped on lower outer corner, with loss of part of page number from the former. Free endpapers chipped with loss; title-page partially detached in the gutter. Some old dog-ears, light foxing and occasional brown spots, and occasional light waterstaining.
An attractive, solid little American Testament.
Victorian Blind- & Gilt-Stamped Binding
with
Enamel Highlights
Bible. English. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). 1842. 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. London: C. Courtier, 1842. 8vo. [4], 767, [1] pp.
$325.00
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Handsome “illuminated” binding on a neat little Bible, one printed on fine paper in a small type size.
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, heavily blind-stamped and covers further graced by central gilt-stamped cartouches touched with red and green enameled highlights. Spine with similar blind- and gilt-stamping, highlighted in red and green. All edges gilt.
Not in Herbert. Binding as above, minimal rubbing to edges and extremities, gilt lightly rubbed in a few areas, corners bumped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1846. Back free endpaper with spot of dampstaining partially adhered to back pastedown and offset onto last leaf of text. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.
A little knockout. (21996)
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Scripture
Selections
TAMIL
Bible.
Selections. Tamil. 1865. A selection of scripture texts. Madras:
Religious Tract and Book Society, printed at the American Mission Press, 1865.
12mo (13.5 cm; 5.5"). 36 pp.
$80.00
Each selection carefully identified as to book, chapter, and verse. Entirely in Tamil. In Madras Religious Tract and Book Society's "General Series" as its publication number 22.
Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15152)
Useful Edition — Crozer's Deluxe Copy
Bible. English. 1866. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The annotated paragraph Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized version, arranged in paragraphs and parallelisms; with explanatory notes, prefaces to the several books, and an entirely new selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages. London: The Religious Tract Society (pr. by Knight), 1866. 8vo (24.2 cm, 9.5"). 2 vols. (lacking vol. 1 of O.T.). I: [2], 521–1050 pp. II: [4], 1051–1471, [1] pp.; 2 maps.
$450.00
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Presentation copy in deluxe binding of this well-received edition, of which the London Quarterly Review said, “We do not know that a more useful or more creditable publication of the kind has been issued, even by the Society whose name it bears” (vol. XIV, pp. 542–43). This Bible was much praised at the time of its publication both for its more logical, readable division of text into paragraphs rather than verses, and for its explanatory notes.

Present here in two volumes are Job through Malachi and the New Testament. The second volume is illustrated with two maps with hand-colored borders.
Provenance: Presentation copy, front covers gilt-stamped “Presented to Samuel A. Crozer, by the teachers of the Upland Baptist Sunday School”; front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Samuel Aldrich Crozer. Crozer was the son of John P. and Abigail Crozer, who endowed the Crozer Theological Seminary (now part of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School); he served as president of the seminary's Board of Trustees and erected the chapel of the Upland Baptist church.
Binding: Signed binding by Lewis & Sons of London: Black morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spines gilt extra, front covers with gilt-stamped presentation as above; board edges gilt-dotted, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
This ed. not in Darlow & Moule (see 1193 for 1855 ed.). Binding as above, very minor wear to corners and spine, overall bright and beautiful. Two vols. only, lacking first vol. of O.T. Front pastedowns each with private bookplates as above; then ex-library with stamps/annotations variously placed and of various generations, back pastedowns and free endpapers with paper adhesions; properly deaccessioned. One frontis. map with tear along one fold, neatly repaired from rear. A very few scattered small spots of light foxing in one volume, pages otherwise clean. (26128)
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Bible. O.T. Psalms. Scots. Waddell. 1871. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew intil Scottis. Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co.; Glasgow: T. & J. Lochhead and Wm. Love, 1871. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [2], 2, 105, [1] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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First edition: The first translation of the Psalms into Scots dialect. This translation was done by Peter Hately Waddell, who in 1867 edited the Life and Works of Robert Burns. The work is illustrated with a map of the territories of the tribes of Israel, and with reproductions of an 18th-century depiction of David and of another Biblically themed woodcut.
A publisher’s advertisement for a later printing is laid in.
Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded along edges and spine. Front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Pages faintly age-toned; in fact, a very clean nice copy.

Renaissance-Inspired
DELUXE New Testament
Bible. N.T. English. 1883. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With engravings on wood from designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel di Volterra, and others. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1883. 4to (25.7 cm, 10.25"). xvi, 540 pp.; illus.
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Subsequent edition, following the first of 1864, of a lavishly illustrated, quintessentially Victorian Bible. The decorations and initials were drawn and wood-engraved by Henry Shaw, who also supervised the engravings of the illustrations after Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, and other Italian masters; engravers involved with the project included F. Anderson, James Cooper, Messrs. Dalziel, W.T. Green, William Linton, and many others, all of whom labored mightily in this attempt to reproduce the feel of a 16th-century production.
Binding: Contemporary crimson cloth, front cover and spine elaborately stamped in gilt, silver, and black; board edges beveled and blind-tooled; back pastedown with binder's ticket from Simpson & Renshaw. Silk endpapers with delicate gold printed pattern. All edges gilt.
Not in Darlow & Moule. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities mildly rubbed, a band at top of back cover a bit lightened in color. As with many examples of this publication, the volume's own considerable weight has partially cracked the front joint; however, with careful use (and storage on the volume's back, not its lower edge), this damage should not quickly progress. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped (NOT rubber-stamped); no other markings.
Clean and beautiful. (26123)
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Bible.
N.T. English. Authorized (“King James” Version).
Holman pronouncing edition. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.... Philadelphia: A.J. Holman Co., [1942?]. 12mo. 520, [2], 521–652,
[2], 16, [2] pp.
$75.00
Pocket-sized Bible printed specifically for the armed forces during World War II, with
a statement from President Roosevelt (as Commander-in-Chief) bearing a stamped signature. The
Psalms have a separate title-page, and the volume concludes with some additional hymns and the
Lord's Prayer; the present copy is unusual in that its original box, with publisher's label, is not only
present but also in reasonably good condition.
Provenance:
Front cover gilt-stamped “Miles R. Bowers”; presentation leaf
inscribed to Bowers by the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Royersford,
PA.
Limp
morocco-covered wrappers, front cover with gilt-stamped American flag, spine with gilt-stamped title;
clean and in very good condition, contained in its original cardboard box with publisher's label, box
showing only minor wear. Pages clean. (6105)
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