The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgat: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages: The Old Testament, First Published at The English College at Doway, A.D. 1609, and The New Testament, First Published at the English College at Rhemes, A.D. 1582. With Annotations, References, and a Historical and Chronological Index

Philadelphia: Eugene Cummiskey, 1836. Hardcover. 8vo. Full original calf with gilt spine lettering. 688pp, (8pp), 691pp. Good. Front and rear boards a solid very good, though spine is rough and scuffed, with "Holy Bible" black calf label half present; delicate front hinge strengthened with old but neat brown cloth tape to endpaper gutter; tight and clean text block occasionally age toned and mildly foxed, mostly to preliminary leaves. A rustic but decent and handleable copy of this edition stereotyped by J. Howe and based on the fifth Dublin edition. Of great interest is the 8-page "Family Record" section between the Old and New Testaments, blank leaves filled in (most in brown ink, some in pencil) recording the family births, deaths and marriages of the family of noted Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary sister Mary Aquin Martin (1860-?), who became Mother of the Convent and Academy of the Visitation in St. Louis by 1921. At one point the family records "Mary Martin Born Feb. 5th 1860," and elsewhere "Mary Martin entered Visitation Convent at St Louis December 17th 1878 professed March 19th 1881." This cloistered Roman Catholic women's order was founded in 1610 by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Francis de Chantal in Annecy, France. Laid in loose are a fascinating small archive of family documents: Two additional "Family Record" pages, apparently from a different Bible, a fine 4¼" X 6½" heavy stock cabinet card (St. Louis: F.W. Guerin Photographer on backstamp) showing a young (handwritten label at bottom) "Sr. Mary Aquin Martin / Mary Martin, 1877" (likely misdated, since she entered the convent the following year), a superb half-length of the young novitiate in her habit; "Reward of Merit" card for her younger brother John H. Martin, recorded in family record as born in 1862, as "left Dubuque for Butte City Montana April 9th 1885 Arrived there April 16th 1885" and died in 1890; two partly-printed 1876 "First Communion" cards for her younger brother James T. Martin, recorded in family record as born in 1865, married in 1909 and died in 1919; 1883 "first holy communion" slip for her younger sister Laura Martin, recorded in the family record as born in 1870 and also as entering the Visitation Convent on October 4th, 1893; and lastly a printed funeral card for Irish-born reverend Michael O'Donnell, who died at Pleasant Grove, Iowa at age 28 in 1879. An acceptable copy of this uncommon Bible and with fascinating family history record and documents from the family of a notable member of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.