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Title: The Works of the Famous and Worthie Minister of Christ in the Universitite of Cambridge, Mr. W. Perkins - From the library of John Eliot, translator of the Bible in Natick (The Indian Bible) and one of the three authors of the Bay Psalm Book Author: Perkins, William. Place: London Publisher: John Legatt / Cantrell Legge Date: 1613 Description: Volumes 2 & 3 only, of three. [14], 727, [1] blank, [28]; [8], 667, [1], [7], [1] blank. Folding table in Volume 2. (Folio) 34x22 cm (13½x8¾") period full calf, raised bands. From the library of the missionary John Eliot (1604-1690), the famous Apostle to the Indians, the translator into the Natick Indian language of the Indian Bible (Cambridge, 1663-61), and with Richard Mather and Thomas Weld, co-author of the Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in what is now the United States. With Eliot's ownership signature "John Eliot" on the end-leaf in Volume 3, neatly scored through with a single line. Eliot's signature is beneath another period signature "John Sparhawk, His Book 1692". Sparhawk (1673?-1718) Harvard, 1689, was a Bristol, Rhode Island minister. His name appears a total of four times in the two volumes. Sparhawk has written above his signature in both volumes that the two volumes cost him 15s. On page 459 of Volume 3 is drawn, presumably by either Eliot or Sparhawk a small hand pointing to a passage about ministers being God's servants. Eliot manuscript material is rare, books from his library rarer still. Houghton Library, Harvard, owns a copy of Peter Heylyn's Cosmographie bearing annotations by Eliot but does not bear his signature and Goodspeed's offered a volume from his library in 1945 and the same volume again in 1956. We can locate no other volumes once possessed by Eliot. Bookplate in each volume of Boston ship and railroad owner, George Bigelow Chase (1835-1902). Lot Amendments Condition: Bindings worn, front covers detached or nearly so; Vol. 2 lacking the half title, Vol. 3 lacking 48 leaves and 1 folding table (list available), some foxing and faint staining; good. Item number: 242259