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Auction archive: Lot number 83

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command of King James I of England . . .

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$420
Auction archive: Lot number 83

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command of King James I of England . . .

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$420
Beschreibung:

Title: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command of King James I of England . . . Author: ** Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Printed by John Adams for Mathew Carey Date: 1803 Description: [2] leaves, [1]-1080 pp. Frontispiece map at general title, frontispiece map at New Testament title, "Family Record" at pages 676-680. 10¾x8½, original full calf. Apparently first edition thus of Old Testament and Apocrypha, "Third Philadelphia edition" stated on New Testament title page. Hills 102. Family bible of the Lippincott family with typed letter laid in on the stationary of J.B. Lippincott Company Publishers, Office of the President, signed by James W. Lippincott. The letter is unrelated to matters bibliographical or biblical. 21 Lippincott births and deaths dated 1770-1889 are recorded in old ink entries to the "Family Record" section. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn with cracked joints, spine with vertical crack, edges and corners quite worn. Front free endpaper and fly creased and worn, title page edges brittle and chipped, text moderately foxed and stained, half of first frontispiece map missiing, New Testament map very worn and torn, though all present. Text appears complete. Good only. Item number: 168332

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
23 Mar 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; together with the Apocrypha; Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command of King James I of England . . . Author: ** Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Printed by John Adams for Mathew Carey Date: 1803 Description: [2] leaves, [1]-1080 pp. Frontispiece map at general title, frontispiece map at New Testament title, "Family Record" at pages 676-680. 10¾x8½, original full calf. Apparently first edition thus of Old Testament and Apocrypha, "Third Philadelphia edition" stated on New Testament title page. Hills 102. Family bible of the Lippincott family with typed letter laid in on the stationary of J.B. Lippincott Company Publishers, Office of the President, signed by James W. Lippincott. The letter is unrelated to matters bibliographical or biblical. 21 Lippincott births and deaths dated 1770-1889 are recorded in old ink entries to the "Family Record" section. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers worn with cracked joints, spine with vertical crack, edges and corners quite worn. Front free endpaper and fly creased and worn, title page edges brittle and chipped, text moderately foxed and stained, half of first frontispiece map missiing, New Testament map very worn and torn, though all present. Text appears complete. Good only. Item number: 168332

Auction archive: Lot number 83
Auction:
Datum:
23 Mar 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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