THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT Extracted out of Sacred Scripture and Writings of the Fathers. To which are added The Lives, Travels and Sufferings of the Apostles, with large and exact Historical Chronology of all the Affairs and Actions related to the Bible.

Very good condition, recently rebound in the style of the late 17th century in brown calf with discrete tooling, spine plain with five raised bands and new end papers. Containing 234 plates and three maps as called for, The plates and maps are in good+ order, but some of the gatherings in the Old Testament are bound out of order: 60/61 is followed by 66/67, 64/65, 62/63 and 68 then 69 is followed by 74/75, 72/73 70/71 and 76 but both the plates and their accompanying text are adjacent to each other. Damage and considerable loss to pp 123/124 otherwise text clean and bright. On the reverse of the frontis piece in a seventeenth/eighteenth century hand a statistical account of the Bible - numbers of chapters, verses, words and letters (total 3,566,480) etc. etc. - a note at the end says "Three years was taken to complete this account" (probably the work of Thomas Addenbrooke) the frontis piece is by G. Freman engraved by J. Kip, the printed title page has the first or early ownership of Thomas Addenbrooke (the following page gives a list of the sculptures and discourses with the names of the patrons of same, the dedication by Richard Blome is to the Worshipful Jeffrey Jeffreys, followed by the Preface to the Reader, in all 10 pages of unpaginated front matter followed by 424 pages paginated (illustrations not included in pagination). [QP].…