Search Results: Titles starting with N from Butler Rare Books

Calcutta: Printed for the Bible Translation Society at the Baptist Mission Pres, 1840. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition limited to 3,000 copies. 8vo. 536pp. Full leather with no titling to spine or cover. Neat ink inscription from 1841 to top of title. Textually in very good condition with a very good binding

Hardcover. A new / mint copy in dustwrapper, mylar protected. 990pp.

310mm x 120mm. On parchment, 44 lines a single leaf cut down the centre margin and ruled, underlinings in red. In an unusually fine hand. France. Early C15th. This is the Glossa ordinaria text by Nicolas de Lyra commenting on Psalm 148. From a small private European collection.

Lugduni [Lyon], 1677. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. 110mm x 60mm. A fascinating association copy of a New Testament found by a soldier in the first World War and recovered from a library destroyed by the war and rain. The inscription reads: "Souvenir of the World War. At the back of the N.Z Trevelus is the Church of , lately destroyed by German artillery. The splendid Rectory is still standing but is in ruins. The abbe's library is now falling through the flooring to the basement below. I took this from the shelves haphazard. A few weeks of rain, together with another peppering from the Hun batteries will see the end of what must have been a beautiful library. Today, the parish itself stands forsaken and deserted; it's empty streets overgrown with rank (?) grass and the noble church that once was, an unrecognisable brick heap. I saw it destroyed. Chas. 19/8/1916" The original full leather binding as found. Some marks internally