THE PARALLEL BIBLE - THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS by VARIOUS - 1886

Tyndale House Publishers, 1985. paperback. Good. in x in x in. Copyright is 1981. Print is April 1984 (5th printing). PLEASE NOTE: Binding is imitation burgundy leather. Minimal highlighting. Corner of page facing front cover has been cut off.

William Collins & Sons, 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 1275Pp. Both The Original Leather Boards Are Detached, As Is The Very Worn Leather Spine. The Title Page And Contents Page Are Also Detached And Are Significantly Worn And Frayed At All The Edges' Apart From These Defects, All The Rest Of The Contents Are Very Good And Robustly Bound In. , 39 Tinted Lithographic Plates By The Great Nineteenth Century Lithographers - 'Day And Son'. Each Of The Full Page Landscape Plates After David Roberts - The Great Nineteenth Century Travel Artist Famous For His Views Of Arabia, Egypt And The Ancient Near East. The Plates Are As Follows: Frontispiece, Additional Title Page, 29 Other Views (Including Several Of Egypt A View Of The Roman Forum And One Of The Acropolis - Athens), 6 Maps And Plans And Finally 2 Family Register Plates (Printed To Both Sides - 4 Pages In All -One Filled In, With Dates From 1835). All Plates Tissue Guarded. Requires Re-Binding. There Is… Read More

Edinburgh and London (c. 1870): William Collins, Sons and Co. Full-Leather. Folio. The Old and New Testaments, containing a compact Bible dictionary with a scripture atlas and plans in color and a series of black and white illustrations of the lands of the Bible engraved from photographs; the family register is not written in. The Psalms of David in meter at end dated 1871 and limited to only 5000 copies. A beautiful Bible, bound in contemporary full brown morocco, stamped in blind, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in blind and gilt; all edges gilt. Marginal dampstain to frontis and corner of title page (barely visible).

Glasgow: William Collins and Co Ltd, 1858. Reprint. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Roberts, David. 1275pp. Probably the finest 'family Bible' we have ever seen or had for sale. 39 tinted lithographic plates by the great nineteenth century lithographers - 'Day and Son'. Each of the full page landscape plates after David Roberts - the great nineteenth century travel artist famous for his views of Arabia, Egypt and the ancient near east. The plates are as follows: frontispiece, additional title page, 29 other views (Including several of Egypt a view of the Roman forum and one of the acropolis - Athens), 6 maps and plans and finally 2 family register plates (printed to both sides - 4 pages in all - none filled in). All plates tissue guarded. Ornate and beautiful blue silk-backed endpapers and paste-downs with rich gilt work to the marins of the interior boards and endpapers. A gilt embossed leather onlay to the front paste-down - 'presented to… Read More

This book is in good condition. The white leather cover has much wear on the front, back, spine and edges. The spine is separated from the pages. The previous owner's information is written on the cover page. The pages are clear and white. The pages are clear of any markings."This Guide offers an easy way to explore the Bible with pleasure and understanding. It not only leads the reader to great stories and noble passages, but also enables him to trace through the Bible the main ideas about God and man on which Christian faith is based. Although it deals with these sometimes difficult ideas, it is written so that it can be understood and enjoyed even by young people just beginning to read the Scriptures. Parents will find the Guide helpful in teaching the Bible to children...." - A Reader's Guide To Exploring The Bible from The Holy Bible Old and New Testaments in the King James Version

Mainz: Johann Gutenberg (Oakland: Octavo), ca. 1455; 2003. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on two CD-ROMs; not a printed book) of one of only three surviving perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible on vellum, from the Library of Congress. This milestone of digital publishing and preservation, part of the groundbreaking Octavo Digital Editions series, presents the entire work, including bindings, in unprecedented resolution (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size), with full searchable English translation of the text, and introductory commentary by Gutenberg expert Janet Ing Freeman, bibliographical information, and a detailed account of the copy's provenance. Unsold original stock, minor storage wear.

New York: A.J. Johnson, 1872. Hardcover. See Description. Thomas Nast, F.B. Carpenter. Small folio (28 cm), pp. xlvii, [1], 711, 7*, [1], 712-1159, [1], [8-page family register], 21, [1]. With 6 steel engraved plates - 4 by Thomas Nast including the frontispiece, 1 by F.B. Carpenter, and 1 unsigned. A fold-out color map of "Palestine" follows p. 1126, and a single page map of "St. Paul's Journeyings Between Rome and Jerusalem" follows p. 1154. Bound in quarter brown Morocco with gilt spine and gilt title on the front cover. All edges of the book block are gilt. The binding is well preserved, but there are areas of rubbing and wear to the extremities. A small area on the spine tail cap is carefully repaired. Endpapers show age-toning and scattered foxing; two names are penciled on the front free endpaper; the rear free endpaper is chipped on the outer edge and contains a 1.5 cm tear. Interior pages are fresh but with faint toning mostly towards the extremities and margins. Title page displays a mild… Read More

New York: Henry S. Goodspeed & Co., 1873. with an Introduction by Dr. L.P. Brockett 8vo size decorative cloth; 1,158 pages. Every page has a beautifully decorated engraved border: angels, cherubim, seraphim at the top and an open bible centered among flourishes at the bottom. There are also several hundred full page black and white engraved illustrations. Dark brown endpapers. Covers are brown cloth with bevelled edges. They are decorated with gilt titles and illustrations and black decorations. Ingram Cobbin (1777 - 1851) was an English minister. When ill heath forced his retirement from the pulpit, he turned to writing hymns and biblical and scholastic works. Book is partly disbound with front cover detached bound to front endpaper and back cover partly detached. Worn corners and head and heel of spine and to detached areas. We note finger marks or ink transfer to several pages; name and notes on ffep; two small amounts of soil on back cover, a small mottled area on front cover and… Read More

Stuttgart: Maler Renz, 1850. Hardcover. Fair. [2] p., 40 leaves of hand-colored illustrations with captions from the New Testament; 22 cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and decoration. No date of publication. Little is known about the publisher Maler Renz, but it was active in the mid-19th century. This title is not in WorldCat. The title page verso contains a poem by German poet Albert Knapp (1798-1864). Very scarce. In Fair Condition: cover is rubbed and slightly soiled; lacking number 9 and 2/3 of number 10; numbers 30 and 32 are detached but present, with chipping along fore-edges; number 34 lacking lower corner, without loss of illustration or caption; numerous closed tears; finger soiling throughout.

Reading, Pa: Johann Ritter und Comp, 1821. Hardcover. Good. Die Zweyte Auflage. 251, [1] p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf. Bound with one set of clasps, but only the hardware on the front board remains. Last page contains a multiplication table. Former owner's name at foot of last page: Aaron Roland. The same name in pencil on the title page verso and back fixed endpaper. Early American Imprints, ser. 2 (Shoemaker), 4700; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A, 2516. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with minor loss at head of spine; back board is scraped; lacking clasp; lacking both free endpapers, and 1 leaf (pp. 221-222); p. 235 scraped, with small loss of text; faint dampstains throughout; otherwise, clean and tight.

N.p.: Humble Lamb, LLC, 2020. Leather Bound. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 1767, [12] pages. Housed in original publisher's box. Bound in flexible brown Meritian Goatskin Leather. The binding measures just about 9 1/2 inches tall by 6 1/4 inches wide. All edges gilt, although when one flips through the text, the fore edge appears green. The binding shows just about no wear. A fresh, clean copy. Contains 12 pages of color maps at the rear. The publisher's box shows light to moderate rubbing and wear. Overall a very nice copy.

Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1900. Book. Fine. Leather_bound. Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1900. Fine. As new condition in original Holman Company box in excellent condition! King James Version Junior Student's Bible. Clean black leather binding with red and gold lettering "Holy Bible" on cover, gold lettering on spine. Absolutely no wear. Edges overlap text block. All pages are clean and bright, with beautifully detailed full color illustrations, color decorated presentation page (with no name), tissue guard; color maps. All edges are clean, rose gold topstained, ribbon page marker. Outstanding crisp and easy to read "Gem" black type. With Helps, including a Bible Study Course divided into thirty-six lessons. Also a complete History of the Bible, Synopsis of each Book of the Bible, and more. Clean black endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Box with original label and number (No. 5809) and Holman Bible advertising description laid in. Box is clean, no cracking,… Read More

Joseph Sharpless, No. 4, Franklin-Court, (Market-Street, Between 3rd. and 4th Streets, South Side, Philadelphia, 1813; First American Edition; 223 pages; original leather boards; red morocco title label. Noteworthy Bible History instructional, adapted for the understanding of everyday people and the young. First published in England during the latter part of the 18th century under the title "An Abridgment Of The Holy Scriptures," it was widely disseminated in both Britain and on the Continent, and by 1814 had undergone 15 editions. Authored by William Sellon (1730-1790), revered curate of St. James, Clerkenwell from 1767 until his death, who was much esteemed for his personal integrity and power as a lecturer. His grandson, Baker Peter Smith, in an 1852 memoir of Sellon reports that he (Sellon) was facetiously referred to by his colleagues as "silver-tongued Sellon" for his ability to bring his hearers to such heights of enthusiasm with his oratory that donations poured in.… Read More

London: G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode [circa 1890s]. (Hardcover) Very good. Diamond 32mo. Volume bound in brown leather with raised bands on the spine, stamped in blind front and back, metal clasp, and metal Star of David (enameled in blue and green and with the letters "IHS" in the center in gold), inner dentelles in gilt. All edges gilt over red, coated brown endpapers. The covers are lightly rubbed, and there is an owner name on the front blank page. Although the book has been well used, it is not badly worn. (Bible, Bible in English).