Le Nouveau Testament De Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ. Traduit Sur La Vulgate Par Le Maistre De Sacy. by Bible. N.T. French - 1903

Boston: chez les Libraires Associés (Lincoln & Edmands, imprimeurs). Very Good. 1811. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 379, [1, colophon] & 4 pages; Contemporary full sheepskin leather, with faint decorative stained pattern on covers, flat spine paneled by simple gilt rules, red label lettered in gilt, edges decoratively stained yellow. 12mo, gathered in sixes (half-sheets). A - 2H6. 379, [1, colophon] & 4 pp. ["Books for Sale by John West & Co., ..."] This is a very good example of the first American edition of the Protestant text of the French New Testament of the Bible, the version translated by Jean-Frédéric Osterwald. Its publication followed by one year the publication, also in Boston, of the first American edition of any New Testament in French -- ["Le Nouveau Testament de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, en Français, sur la Vulgate -- translated by Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy. Boston: J.T. Buckingham, 1810. The… Read More

Paris. Chez Francois Muguet. 1688-1687. Hardcover. 4to. 25cm, in 3 tomes en 2. [26],609,[34] & [6],454,[1] +Vol3: [6],314pp., full copper engraved frontis, 4 folding maps, chapter header engraved illustrations, some illustrated inital letters, notes, indexes, in full contemporary calf, real raised bands, full gilt borders and decorations in the panels, double crushed crimson labels, wear on the boards, front corner worn through, wear on the spine edge but sound, good to very good, association copy. (cgc) Provenance: Robert Currie Geggie, Quebec, with his Signature on the engraved frontis in the top right corner, dated 1858, Quebec and again on the title page. A Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) who had come to Quebec from Scotland to teach school in 1832. The Geggie family, prominent in the Wakefield area of Quebec, are his descendants. Dr. Harold James Gugy Greggie, was the founder of the Wakefield hospital he saws his three sons and a grandson follow him in his choice of profession. ~ An annotated… Read More