The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments ... [Bound With] a Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures
by (Carey Bible); John Brown
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good copy in full leather
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey. Very good copy in full leather. 1803. 1st thus. leather. 4to, 1077, 72 pp., Printed by Thomas & George Palmer for Mathew Carey, November 7th, 1803 (OT) & July 25th, 1803 (NT), Full title reads as follows: "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. With Marginal Notes and References. To which are added, an index; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins; John Brown's Concordance, &c. &c. &c. Embellished with ten maps, and twenty historical engravings." All maps &engravings present; frontsipiece folding map badly wrinkled, torn & with an ink stain; text and plates with significant foxing. Title page torn horizontally across the middle of the page & with edge wear and a stain. Front board detached. Possibly missing blank pages at beginning & end. Bound in full brown leather; spine in six compartments with five raised bands and contrasting maroon leather title label .
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- Title
- The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments ... [Bound With] a Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures
- Author
- (Carey Bible); John Brown
- Illustrator
- Illus. w. maps & engravings
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good copy in full leather
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mathew Carey
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1803
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