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Aitken, a Philadelphia printer, undertook the task, producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament the following year, in 1782. On completion, he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September, 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production, the Bible is often referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution." A major rarity in American Bibles and American printing. This book has been very difficult to find. $95,000.00
Published by Sr Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1897. Hard cover, full leather, red boards, black spine & corners, heavily ruled, lettered & decorated in gilt, all edges dyed red, 6.7" x 4.7", 368pp. Condition: VG. Very rare and desirable, and particularly hard to find in such nice condition. Packed weight 400g .$175.11
Philadelphia: John B. Perry, 1855 Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket (as issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. images available upon request. printed in double columns. illustrated with a chromolithographed title-page for each testament as well as 12 engraved plates by various artists. Four pages for the family record show. John Devindorf married Louisa Funnern (sp?) 1824 -- Mary Olive Devindorf married Frank Somers Tisdale 1892 -- James Frederick Devindorf married Amelia Ploch (sp?) 1894 -- Muriel Devindorf Tisdale married Walter Leo Trudeau 1925 -- Binding: red covers with elaborate gold decorations surrounding a gilt-stamped vignette of the Last Supper surmounted by angels and bearing the legend "this do in remembrance of me" on front and back. heavy wear along hinges and outer edges. some rubbing along thick/wide spine. rubbing on front covers. $299.95 |
Thomas Bensley For Thomas Macklin, 1800 Decorated Leather. First Edition First Printing. Elephant Folio. This is your chance to buy the Macklin illustrated Bible in 6 volumes: the largest bible ever printed. This fantastic set of books in recent high quality full calf bindings stands 48cm tall, measures 38cm across the board and stretches approximately 45cm along the shelf. The books are bound in lightly mottled honey calf, with a blind tooled floral frame near the edge of the boards, with floral spears and central Oxford panel in mottled dark brown. The Oxford panel has a black florate frame. The bindings are strikingly beautiful. The spines are gilt stamped with the title and volume numbers, have gilt rules to the raised bands and large blind floral centrepunches. The outer edge of each board is blind tooled, and each board also has blind inner dentelles. The endpapers are a deep rich purple. All page edges are gilt. The condition of the bindings is fine. $17,806.69
John Baskerville, 1763 Printer to the University, large thick folio. Richly gilt ornamental red russia with a very attractive gilt bordered medallion inlay with stamped initials JHS (Jesus Hominum Salvator) and cross in two shades of green morocco in the center of upper and lower boards, a.e.g.; scuffed, corners and spine ends rubbed and chipped even with headband, joints occasionally rubbed, very upper joint cracked slightly but not at all affecting structure, morocco spine label chipped with "Bible" still there, considerable wear but nothing approaching a fatal defect and certainly overall solid and tight. Gilt urn motifs in each compartment on spine. Interior very appealing with a couple of insignificant small tears only one affecting some text. Some other trivial internal wear but really pleasing internally with pages supple and fresh with print especially bright. Extremely clean inside. $8,350.00
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