Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1851. 8vo, pp. 191; original brown cloth, printed paper spine label (partially perished); ex-Baptist Mission House Library with usual markings and bookplate to front pastedown; some minor foxing and occasional soil spots, else very good and sound. OCLC locates one copy in North America, at Chicago..... More
San Francisco: Cubery & Co., 1884. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 19, [1]; stiff illustrated paper covers, tied with ribbon; covers lightly soiled, text clean and sound in silver borders; near fine. The only son of Leland Stanford Sr. and Jane Stanford, his early death by illness was the trigger..... More
Oxonii: typographeo Clarendoniano, 1763. 4to, pp. [6], 415, [1]; the first leaf is blank; late 19th-century half brown morocco over brown cloth sides, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; first 4 leaves darkened from (?) smoke (?) in top outer corners; the binding lightly rubbed, but..... More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825. Fourth edition, 12mo, pp.129, [1]; lacking pages 9-10, 47-96, 125-128, and 130-[134] (page 130 being blank in this copy but with text on copies checked online); woodblock illustrations throughout text, many crudely hand colored; calf-backed paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, textblock split and pp. 37-38 loose;..... More
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n.p., n.d. [ca. 1850s]. 16mo, pp. 47, [1]; blindstamped black cloth; wear to corners and spine slightly cracked, else very good. A small paper label affixed to front pastedown reads: "Hieroglyphics. Price $3,00. Per dozen $24." A mnemonic reference for Masonic rites, providing the first letters only of each word..... More
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Boston: D. S. King & Co., 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36; 5 wood-engraved illustrations; upper wrapper soiled and slightly chipped; rear wrapper wanting; good and sound. LC, AAS and the BL only in OCLC. Includes "Letters from a Native of India," "The Religion of the Hindoos - What Is..... More
Calcutta: Bible Translation Society, 1902. Tenth edition limited to 2,500 copies, 2 parts in one, pp. 843, [3], 266; original black blind-tooled cloth (some soiling), gilt-lettered spine, all edges red; spine ends quite worn and cracked, edges scuffed and worn; endpapers foxed, else interior about fine. More
Philadelphia: published and sold by Kimber and Sharpless, n.d., [ca. 1820's]. At the head of the title: "Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition." 4to, pp. [2], 770; woodcut frontispiece; separate title-p. and woodcut frontispiece for the N.T.; family records filled out in manuscript on pro-forma pages between the Old and the..... More
Oxford: Printed at the University Press, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1894. 16mo, pp. 1000; 8 colored map plates in rear, text printed in double columns; full contemporary black blind-ruled morocco, gilt-lettered spine, yapp edges, a.e.g., yellow-glazed endpapers; leather a bit rubbed from shelf wear, else fine. Contemporary..... More
Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1843. 12mo, pp. 681; two steel-engraved plates bound in front, 10 woodcut plates; full contemporary blind-tooled sheep, all-over gilt, elaborate gilt spine in 5 compartments, a.e.g., sky-blue endpapers; edges a bit rubbed and worn; preliminaries browned and foxed, two faint pencil ownership signatures, else a...... More
Brookfield: printed by E. Merriam and Co., 1815. Thick 8vo, pp. 735, [1] (O.T.), [4] (family record), [168] (Apocrypha), [736]-959, [1] (N.T.); text in double column; full contemporary calf, black morocco label on spine; text toned throughout; good and sound. Hills, English Bible in America, 273: "This edition consisted of..... More
Hartford: printed by Hudson & Co., 1817. Thick 12mo, pp. [810], text in double column; full contemporary speckled paneled sheep; very good. With an early printed leaf of ownership inserted at the beginning, reading "Sarah Sawyer. / Book / Sarah Sawyer. / Book / Winstead" (i.e. Winstead, CT), and with..... More
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Co., 1816. Thick 12mo, pp. [810], text in double column; full contemporary sheep; several gatherings extended, else good and sound. With an early color pen & bookplate pasted inside the upper cover for John Bottum, incorporating a chrysanthium with an oblate frame surrounded by oriental..... More
New York: stereotyped for: The American Bible Society by D. & G. Bruce, 1821. Thick 8vo, pp. 836, [1]; text in double column; full contemporary calf, black morocco label on spine, "American Bible Society" blindstamped on upper cover; good and sound. Hills, English Bible in America, 418. More
Edinburgh: John Baskett and Company, 1726. Thick 8vo, unpaged; text in double column; contemporary paneled dark brown goat, boards tooled in gilt, spine in 6 compartments, elaborately gilt-tooled, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; boards and extremities scuffed, small loss to spine head, neat restoration to top of front board and corners; lacking..... More
[Edinburgh: James Watson, 1719.]. 16mo, lacking all before Z2, the text beginning with The Proverbs; separate title page for the New Testament, ruled in red throughout; contemporary red goatskin with an all-over gilt design in the "cottage-roof" style, rebacked, the gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments neatly laid down, a.e.g.; the..... More
Philadelphia: A. J. Holman & Co., 1874. Holman's Edition, large, heavy 4to, pp. [2], viii, 9-40, 9-857 (O.T.), [1], 139 (Apocrypha), [1], [2], 264, 837-848, 60 (concordance), 24 (Psalms in metre); 1 folding wood-engraved panorama, 12 steel-engraved plates, 2 inserted pro-forma chromolithograph pages of births, deaths and memoranda, facsimiles of..... More
Brattleborough, VT: Holbrook & Fessenden, 1824. Holbrook & Fessenden's Stereotype Hot-Press Edition, thick 4to, pp. [3]-683 (O.T.), [1], [2] (wood-engraved leaves of family register), 159, [1] (Apocrapha), 687-930 (N.T.), [2], 56 (concordance), 121 (Practical Observations on the Old and New Testaments ... by the Rev. Mr. Ostervald, professor of Divinity..... More
Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1854. Harding's Superfine Edition, 4to, pp. [4], 787, [1]; 600, 35 (concordance), [1], 18 (Psalms of David in metre); text in double column, inserted chromolithogrph frontispiece and title age to both the N.T. and the O.T., second volume with separate title page (same impint); 9 chromolithograph plates,10..... More
Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney ... sold also by I. Tiffany, Utica, 1841. E.& H. Phinney's Sterotype Edition, 4to, pp. 576, [4], 99 (Apocrapha), [1], [577]-768; text in double column, N.T. with a separate title page dated 1842; 10 woodcut plates, 2 leaves of "Family Register"; original elaborate engine-tooled..... More
Philadelphia: printed and sold by Kimber and Sharpless, n.d., [ca. 1826]. Kimber and Sharpless Stereotype Edition, 4to, pp. 4, 6, 5-570 (O.T.), 112 (Apocrypha), [571]-770 (N>T.), 54 (concordance); text in double column, concordanc ijn quadruple column, 2 inserted leaves of family register at the beginning of the N.T.; 3 engraved..... More
Brattleborough, VT: [printed and sold by J. Holbrook], 1816. First Brattleborough and first Holbrook edition, published by subscription; thick 4to, pp. 930, [2], 56 (Brown's Concordance ... revised and corrected, with sepatate title page also dated 1816); text in double column; 2 inserted engraved title pages (O.T. and N.T.), frontispiece..... More
Maulmain: American Baptist Mission Press, 1839. 12mo, [50] leaves; title page in English and Burmese, text otherwise in Burmese throughout; original cloth-backed stiff blue wrappers; some browning of the flyleaves and endpapers, otherwise pretty near fine throughout. With an inscription on the front free endpaper: "To the Rev. W. H...... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1846. First edition of the most lavish book published in America at the time. Large, thick 4to, pp. 844, 128, 256, [4], 8, 14, 34; inserted and outside the pagination are: half-title page, title page, and contents leaf printed in red and black; Apocrypha title..... More
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1900. First edition, 12mo, pp. 357, [3]; 8 leaves of color map plates; original terracotta cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges red, yellow glazed endpapers; edges and spine a bit darkened, Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library bookplate to front pastedown; very..... More
