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The Great "She" Bible, the "authorized version" or King James Bible, one of the greatest monuments of English literature. This edition is known as the "She" Bible for the reading "She went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15. In this copy he error "Judas" for "Jesus" in Matthew 26:36 is corrected with a pasted-on slip. Fry styles this the "first edition, second issue," though it is more properly the second edition. "The general title is usually dated 1613, though the NT title bears the date 1611. Probably the greater part of the book was printed in 1611, but the publication, for some reason or other, was delayed till 1613. . . . Smith suggests [the delay resulted from] an accident in the printing-office which destroyed a large number of sheets" (Herbert).
One of the masterpieces of the English language, the King James Bible is surely the greatest literary work ever created by committee. In the preface, Miles Smith, one of the dozens of translators, commented on the importance of the work: "Translation it is… Read More

Summary
London: Robert Barker, 1611. Pulpit Folio (15 x 10.25 in). The editio princeps of the King James Bible – the crowning jewel of English Bible versions and one of the most important books in all literature.
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General title page in facsimile. Calendar printed in red and black. Text in large two column black letter type with 59 lines to the full column and within a ruled border. With the reading "and he went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15. New Testament title page (1611) with the twelve tribes of Israel on the left and the twelve disciples on the right. The four evangelists with their gospel symbols around the letterpress with the Tetragrammaton, the dove, and the slain Lamb at the center. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
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A^6, B^2 [-A^6, General title and first five preliminary leaves in facsimile], C^6 [Calendar], D^4 [-D1, Tables with first leaf in facsimile], A-C^6 [-A1, Genealogies with title page in facsimile], D^2 [Double-page map in facsimile]; A-Z^6,… Read More

Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.: William Mackenzie., 1862 - 1863.. Original full red morocco by Leighton, boards with elaborate decorative tooling in blind surrounding a central lozenge with the Royal monogram (VR) with coronet and gilt decorative tools, banded spines with titles gilt and decorative tools in eight compartments, boards with brass edges, mounts and clasps, dentelles with elaborate gilt decorative tooling, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.. 2 vols. Large folio. (480 x 370 mm).. Half-title, title with vignette Royal arms to each volume, Royal privilege to vol. I title verso, leaf with dedication to the Queen, leaf with dedication to James I, 'The Translators to the Readers', two leaves 'Family Register' with pictorial head-piece and decorative rules bound between the Old and New Testaments, title to the New Testament, text and 57 wet collodion albumen prints each mounted to larger sheets of card, each with printed caption and reference to the text. The magnificent 'Queen's Bible' illustrated… Read More

FOURTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF A RARE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY COPIED BY A NAMED SCRIBE. In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?), c. 1350. Dimensions 240 x 170 mm., 120 folios, complete, catchwords in red and brown ink, quire signatures, written by a single scribe in a university bookhand, scrolling cadels at top lines sometimes in human and animal forms, numerous red and blue/black penwork initials of five to seven lines. BINDING: Nineteenth-century marbled boards and doublures, parchment covering corners and spine, spine title in red and black with filigreed decoration in red. TEXT: A New Testament commentary, Jacobus Folquerius's Viridarium Gregoriana, mined from many of Gregory the Great's works, drawing occasionally on Alulfus of Tournai's Gregorialis. The text is known in only three other manuscripts; this copy was, until now, apparently unknown, and is certainly the only of its kind on the market. PROVENANCE: Based on the script, this manuscript… Read More

[22], “468” [= 470]; [13], [1 blank], “167” [= 168]; [4], 77, [1 blank] ll. plus the print-Bible and maps.The famous and magnificent 1663 Elsevier edition of the 1637 authorized Dutch States translation of the Bible (Old and New Testament plus the Apocrypha), the only early edition of the Dutch States translation with the text in roman type instead of the traditional textura gothic. With Picart's folio print-Bible, Figures de la Bible (1720), the most sumptuous pictorial bible published in the Netherlands, here in the rare first edition, published by the artist himself, and the series of 6 maps and plans by Nicolaas I Visscher (1618-1679). The prints and maps are inserted in the relevant places in the Old Testament, New Testament and Apocrypha, with the New Testament and Apocrypha bound together to make the second volume. The whole is most luxuriously and splendidly produced, and bound by the so-called "stag bindery", active in Rotterdam at least 1693-1743, “the most important eighteenth-century… Read More

[20], 302, [2], 149; 164, [10]; [2], 66 ll.Extra-illustrated large folio edition of the Dutch Statenbijbel (States Bible) with 6 maps and 336 illustrations hand-coloured, the translation officially authorized by the Dutch Reformed Church and published with a privilege from the States General of the Dutch Republic. The 1619 Synod of Dordrecht established a committee to prepare the new translation, and leading Dutch scholars worked on it for nearly twenty years before Paulus Aertsz. van Ravesteyn (ca. 1586-1655) published the first edition in 1637. The 6 maps and the engraved illustrations were produced to be inserted into Van Ravesteyn's folio editions. The series of 336 illustrations by Claes Jansz. Visscher with eight to one leaf, are engraved by Cornelis Danckerts. With some browning, but still generally in good condition and with large margins. The binding has been rebacked, as noted, and the "sharkskin" on the boards has some cracks and wear, but the silver furnishings and gauffered edges are… Read More

MANUSCRIPT COMBINING A LATIN NEW TESTAMENT AND COMMENTARIES BY NICHOLAS OF LYRA. In Latin, decorated manuscript on paper, Northeastern Netherlands or Northwestern Germany, c. 1450-1475. Dimensions 275 x 198 mm., 383 folios, apparently complete, written in a formal cursive gothic bookhand without loops in two columns of 38 lines, red initials, nine- to fifteen-line blue or parted red and blue initials, added running titles, which continue to part two of the volume; ff. 146-end, copied in a very neat controlled hybrida script, red initials 3- to-10 line (occasionally blue), a few with pen decoration,10-line red initial, six 10-line parted red and blue initials. BINDING: seventeenth century(?) plain vellum over pasteboard with yap edges. TEXT: This sizeable volume combines a copy of the New Testament, lacking only the Gospels, with the Commentaries by Nicholas of Lyra on the same books of the New Testament. Although possibly of independent origin, these two sections are contemporary and were united very… Read More

Very rare, first edition. Bible for the Lisu nationality who are a minority living in a southwestern mountain area in China. This book is of very interesting because Lisu has only oral language but not written language. This Lisu written language was invented and designed by the missionary writer of this book for the nationality by combining both oriental and western languages. However, this written language disappear after Chinese Communist Government got power in 1949 when they began to spread Chinese Characters in the area.
Title from verso t.p. Has also a Chinese title page as shown because it is published in Shanghai, China.
136 pages ; 20 cm. A little wear on covers, near fine in total.

[20], 302, [2], 149; 164, [10]; [2], 66 ll.Extra-illustrated and hand-coloured large folio edition of the Dutch Statenbijbel (States Bible), the translation officially authorized by the Dutch Reformed Church and published with a privilege from the States General of the Dutch Republic. The 1619 Synod of Dordrecht established a committee to prepare the new translation, and leading Dutch scholars worked on it for nearly twenty years before Paulus Aertsz. van Ravesteyn (ca. 1586-1655) published the first edition in 1637. The 6 maps and the 96 engraved illustrations were produced for insertion in folio editions of the States Bible, but in Van Ravesteyn's 1657 edition maps 2-6 by Nicolaas Visser I were originally accompanied by an older world map by his father Claes Jansz. Visser. The younger Visser's present new world map replaced it ca. 1663. De Wit's series of illustrations seems to be quite rare.With owner’s inscriptions. The tattered margins of the half-title and title-page were reinforced and… Read More

Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to [the] Kings most Excellent Majesty for Great-Britain and for [the] University, 1716. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Royal folios (measuring 55cm. in height, or 14.5" x 21.5"). The rarer of two known states (the other bearing a 1717 imprint): Volume 1 (Old Testament and Apocrypha) issued with the illustrated engraved title page engraved by John Sturt and dated 1716; and Volume 2 (New Testament) issued with an engraving of the Annunciation on the letterpress title page and dated 1716. A rare copy of the magnificent ‘Vinegar Bible', in a presentation binding of black levant leather with the Royal Cypher of King George III (surmounted by a crown) stamped in gold in five compartments on the spines of each volume, and the Royal Arms (with "G.R. III" above the crown) embossed at the center of all four covers. Both volumes have early marbled endpapers and wove paper fly leaves, royal blue silk ribbons, all edges gilt. According to an early bookseller's… Read More

[266], [2 blank] pp. ([133], [1 blank] ll.)Second(?) edition, in the original Latin, of the important and influential extensive commentaries on each of the 150 psalms, by the Spanish Dominican cardinal Juan de Torquemada (ca. 1388-1468). He brings together quotations from the Church Fathers (his sources include Chrysostom, Augustine, Cassiodorus and Remigius) and discusses the meaning of psalms for devotion to Christ and for the Church generally.Torquemada finished his commentaries in 1463 and dedicated them to Pope Pius II, but what is generally considered the first printed edition appeared posthumously, a quarto by Ulrich Han in Rome, dated 4 October 1470. Though the present Augsburg folio edition is undated, Schüssler set up his printing office after 22 January 1470 but well before 28 June 1470 (when he completed a book of 98½ edition-sheets), and one copy of the present edition has a note of its purchase in 1471, so it must have been printed in 1470 or 1471 and is generally believed to have… Read More

New York: European Publishing Company, 1898. "The Woman's Bible is a collection of essays and commentaries on the Bible compiled in 1895 by a committee chaired by Cady Stanton, one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention (the first Woman's Rights Convention held in 1848) and a founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton's purpose was to initiate a critical study of biblical texts that are used to degrade and subject women in order to demonstrate that it is not divine will that humiliates women, but human desire for domination. In 'denying divine inspiration for demoralizing ideas,' Stanton's committee hoped to exemplify a reverence for a higher 'Spirit of all Good'" (Boles, Janet K., Diane Long Hoeveler, and Rebecca Bardwell. Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, c. 1996). Nonetheless, The Woman's Bible was not well-received by everyone. Many members of clergy felt that the whole concept was… Read More

1884. [Weimar, Gustaf Uszman] for E.L. Kasprowicz, Lipsk [Leipzig], 1884-[89]. Large 4to. Bound in a very nice recent red half calf with five raised bands and gilt title to spine. Title-page with repair to inner margin and with a few closed tears. Outer margin discreetly reinforced. Verso of title-page with "1942 D. 1513" in pencil. Last leaf also with a couple of closed/repaired tears, with minor loss of text, and reinforced in margin. Apart from the nicely restored flaws to the first and last leaf, this is an excellent, very nice and clean copy. VII, 325, (1) pp. Very rare first edition of the first Polish translation of Marx' revolutionizing main work, "The Capital", which was clandestinely printed in Germany and then smuggled into Poland. The Polish translation, which is much rarer than the first Russian edition, and thus of the utmost scarcity, was illegally printed in Germany, with the mediation of the translator Kasprowicz (who worked for Brockhaus), by G. Uszman in Weimar (far enough from… Read More

1569 First Edition Bear Bible 1st Spanish La Biblia del Oso Reina
La Biblia, Que es, Los Sacros Libros Del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento. Transladada en Espanol.
First Edition of the complete Bible in Spanish. Commonly called the "Bear Bible" because of the woodcut of a bear cub raiding a beehive on the title-page. Two woodcut illustrations in the text. Woodcut initials throughout. With the bookplates of Don A Canovas del Castillo and Oscar Benjamin Cintas, Cuban ambassador to the United States. Darlow & Moule 8472.
Quarto, Full brown calf leather binding with a nicely decorated spine and lovely marbled end papers.. Complete without facsimiles. The Lower margin of the title has been re-margined, and some pages have top marginal repairs and reinforcements and mild damp-staining in places, otherwise a very good copy. Colophon: Anno del Senor M.D LXIX. en Septiembre, 1569.
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London: Imprinted by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie,, 1611. The essence of Christianity in the King's English First edition of the Authorized Version of the four gospels, extracted from a first edition King James Bible and specially bound. The project was commissioned by the monarch to give the English Church an authoritative version of the Bible and conclude decades of competing translations in the aftermath of the Reformation. Produced by 50 leading scholars of diverse qualifications and varying religious convictions, the Authorized Version is often described as the greatest literary work created by a committee. The stately rhythms and simple but elevated prose style of this translation, somewhat archaic from the outset, have permanently imbued the English language with gravitas and a rich stock of universally recognisable phrases. In 1828 Thomas Babington Macaulay famously called it "a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to… Read More

Rhemes: John Fogny 1582, 1582. The editio princeps of the translation of the New Testament made in accordance with Roman Catholic doctrine. Quarto. 227x165mm. pp. [28], 745, [27]. Handsome modern panelled speckled calf, decorated in blind, spine with raised bands, brown morocco label in second compartment, lettered and decorated in gilt. Title page has been remargined and the next two preliminary and the final three leaves repaired. Very small marginal worm track at the gutter between Yiii and Ddii, otherwise internally very good. Woodcut vignettes and historiated initials throughout. Some (illegible) contemporary manuscript annotations on the final two leaves. p378 has a hand-drawn Patriarchal Cross (Cross of Lorraine) in the margin next to the paragraph defining the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning good works. An excellent copy of a theologically important translation with combative doctrinal notes and commentaries marking a significant English contribution to the Counter-Reformation.… Read More

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1769. The Holy Bible of King James 1769, revised by Dr. Benjamin Blayney, is now the only King James Bible standard text. The Bible is a very valuable one, having been only about 20 preserved of the whole Edition, the rest having been burnt by fire in Paternoster Row, London. First Edition. 1st Printing. Professionally rebound in full dark brown calfskin with gold titling, tooling and dentelles, with gauffered page ends, and marbled flyleaves. Romans III has piece taken out of page, see photos. 'The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments : Translated Out of the Original Tongues : And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.' Includes the 'Apocrypha', 'The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek : And With the Former Translations Dligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special… Read More

Rare First Edition
First polyglot printing and earliest Arabic printing of any part of the Bible
Second book printed in Arabic with movable type
The first biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus and the first published account of his second voyage
Giustiniani, Agostino, Psalterium, hebraeum, graecum, arabicum, & chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Genuae : impressit miro ingenio Petrus Paulus Porrus : in aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli, 1516 mense VIIIIbri [Genua, Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516].
Folio (30,2 x 22,5 cm), stiff vellum binding, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, sprinkled edge, ff. [200], signature: A¹⁰ B-Z⁸ &⁸ ɔ6, printer device at leaf ɔ6r, below the printer device the motto Petrus Paulus Porrus mediolanensis, Taurini degens, title page within woodcut arabesque border and leaf A4v-5r printed in black and red, text on 8 columns on double page, printed in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Roman. 13 woodcut initials, 5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic.
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The King James Bible Facsimile of the First Impression of the Original 1611 EditionThe King James Bible Facsimile of the First Impression of the Original 1611 Edition - This Facsimile of the first impression of the original 1611 Edition of The King James Bible was produced for The World Publishing Company, by George Rainbird Limited. It is one of an edition limited to 1500 copies, of which this is number 219. It was printed by offset lithography and bound by Amilcare Pizzi S. P. A., Via Panizza 7, Milan. The laid paper was specially made by The Ventura Mill at Cernobbio. The binding is a faithful replica of an original contemporary binding. Printed in Italy. Leather bound. Size 16" x 11" x 4.5", this is an oversized, heavy book. (In L3 box1060).

1762 Folio First Edition thus of the King James Bible revised by Dr. F.S. Paris.
PRESENTING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION EXQUISITE GENUINE 260 YEAR OLD ULTRA RARE *KING JAMES BIBLE*
The Holy Bible, containing the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS; Newly Translated out of the ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND With the former TRANSLATIONS diligently compared and revised, By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. CAMBRIDGE, Printed by JOSEPH BENTHAM Printer to the UNIVERSITY; Sold by BENJAMIN DOD, Bookseller, at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary. near St. Paul's, LONDON. 1762. CUM PRIVILEGIO
There have been many revisions of the King James Bible ie. 1615, 1629, 1638, 1762, 1769 and 1772. This Bible is extremely rare and of great importance. This revision is the foundation of what we know as the King James Version today.
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MEASURES 16 " x 10 1/4" x 5 1/4 " THICK OVERALL… Read More