ruled in red throughout
[KING JAMES VERSION].
The Holy Bible [bound with] The Book of Common Prayer [and] The Whole Book of Psalmes.
London, Printed at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill et al. 1639-1640.
A pleasing example of this mid-seventeenth-century octavo King James Bible, ruled in red throughout, with the biblical Apocrypha, and bound with The Book of Common Prayer and The Whole Book of the Psalmes.
Three works bound in 1 vol.; 8vo (19 x 12.5 cm); NT title dated 1639, ruled in red throughout, woodcut general and NT titles to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, woodcut vignette of Adam and Eve before Genesis, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, 19th-century endpapers with extensive manuscript genealogy in pen, dampstaining particularly affecting opening quire of the Bible and quires F through to I, the occasional tear with minor loss to text, lacking leaf 2U8 (Apocrypha XXIX-XXXI); 19th century diced calf, covers with flower and leaf gilt roll, rebacked, original spine laid down, corners rubbed with loss, very good.
ESTC S102186; Herbert 546; DM 423.
Stock code 123861
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The Holy Bible
ARISTEAS of Marmora; DONE, John (translator).
[Letter of Aristeas].
[1633].
The scarce first edition in English of the Letter of Aristeas, the earliest account of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which contains the first mention of the library of Alexandria
£1,250.00
[GENEVA VERSION]; STERNHOLD & HOPKINS (Psalmes).
The Bible.
1589.
A handsome sixteeth-century edition of the Geneva Bible, finely bound in eighteenth-century gilt-panelled calf, without the Concordance, but with the Booke of Common Prayer and metrical Psalmes
£8,000.00
KEMPIS, Thomas à.
[Imitatio Christi].
1677.
A near fine example of an English semi-sombre binding enclosing Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation, De Imitatione Christi in English translation
£2,250.00
