[KING JAMES VERSION].
The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesties speciall command [bound with] The Whole Booke of Psalmes [and] The Book of Common Prayer (defective).
London, Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie, and by the assignes of John Bill, 1639.
This edition with the Apocrypha, and bound with Sternehold's Booke of Psalmes, and a defective Book of Common Prayer (lacking the title-page and two preliminary leaves), all dating from the year 1639. A handsome copy in contemporary calf, the covers with a gilt-tooled lozenge centrepiece formed of floral devices.
Three works in 1 vol.; 4to (23.5 x 18 cm); woodcut general and NT titles, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, printed in ruled border, ownership inscriptions in pen to verso of general title, NT title, A3, and 2Z1 recto, later pen inscription to fore-edge margin of 3E1 and 3G8 verso, slightly toned, with occasional light dampstaining and the old, small hole with minor loss to text of 3Z2-3, final f. of Book of Psalmes frayed with slight loss to corners and with small tear at gutter margin repaired in tape, Book of Common Prayer defective, lacking title-page and opening 2 preliminary ff, later endpapers; contemporary calf, gilt lozenge centrepiece to covers formed of floral tools, rebacked, slight rubbed and abraded with loss to gilt, very good.
ESTC S117092; Herbert 539; DM 417.
Stock code 123903
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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
$1,708.00
[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
$10,930.00
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
$3,074.00
