[KING JAMES VERSION].
The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command.
Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, Printers to the University, 1800.
8vo (21.5 x 14 cm); ownership inscriptions in pen to front endpapers, light spotting, 3I4 upper corner torn with slight loss to text and starting to detach at lower gutter margin, small wormhole affecting title and preliminary ff; contemporary panelled calf, rubbed with loss to corners and spine ends, very good.
Herbert 1446.
Stock code 121818
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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
