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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations diligently compared & revised By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. With The Whole Book of Psalms, by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins & others. 1663.
by Prince James:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Bill, and Christopher Barker, 1663. Hardback, approx 7 x 4.5 inches. In black full calf leather binding, Blind decorative paneled boards, and blind decorations and raised banding to spine. Marbled endpapers, page edges darkened. In very good condition. Repairs to corners and spine. Endpapers darkened with a couple of neat inscriptions. Inscribed on decorative halftitle “Sarah Ann Grace Fullard, 1902.” Later decorative coloured ‘Lords Prayer’ plate pasted in opposite at front. Some minor darkening and handling marks to pages, a couple of spots and stains, stain scross 2 pages Nehemiah ch.X. some spots to Genesis, small tear to edge/margin of plate 11 in Genesis. N(No loss to print.) Pressed fern between Proverbs Ch2. Some loose newpaper clippings inside. Binding tight and sound. Else a very good early illustrated bible. Unpaginated, with 100pp Psalms. Red lining to pages. Illustrated with a decorative title and halftitle pages, over 144 full-page engraved plates, including portraits, includes 40 plates each with 2 illustrations.
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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Title
- The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New. Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations diligently compared & revised By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. With The Whole Book of Psalms, by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins & others. 1663.
- Author
- Prince James:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Bill, and Christopher Barker, 1663
- Keywords
- RELIGION Prince James: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New, Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, John Bill, and Christopher Barker, 1663, early, Leather binding, decoration, illustrated, lined, red lining, engravings,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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