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Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. xiv, 311 pp. New. No dust jacket as issued. Pictorial paper on board. Volume 84, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies.

New York: (Williams and) Whiting and Watson, 1810-1812. Volumes I-VI. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6 inches. Unpaginated. Good. Full leather on board. Early (1847) bespoke rebinding. Six decorative spine panels with gilt ruling still showing. Gilt lettering "Scott's Bible" in a red panel, content and volume number in a black panel. Early owner's name (D.S. Ebersol) in gilt visible at spine tail on some volumes. Publication: Vol. I, 1810, Williams and Whiting; Vol. II & III, 1811, Whiting and Watson; Vols. IV-VI, 1812, Whiting and Watson. Leather shows considerable edgewear, rubbing, scuffing, and scraping with traces of early worm damage. All volumes (except vols. 5 & 6, missing upper portion of ffep): "Nov 15 1829" in ink head of ffep, 2-inch strip excised from leading top corner ffep, "Silas Samson Jr" in ink below excised strip on ffep. All volumes: "D.S. Ebersol Oct 1847" in pencil at head of title page.Vol. I (Genesis through Joshua): Leather cracked through along entire front hinge, but hinge… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846. First Edition. Large, thick quarto. 12.75 x 9 x 4 inches. Condition: Good. Publisher's dark brown Morocco. First book edition of Harper's Illuminated Bible (first issued in 54 parts). "Dated 1846 with, at foot of title, 'entered ... in the year 1843 by Harper and Brothers.' Frontispiece and illuminated title to each Testament. Table, Index and Concordance at the end. With Apocrypha." (Hills 1161) Illustrated with 1600 engravings by J. A. Adams, more than 1400 of which are from original designs by J.G. Chapman. 844, [1], 128, [6], 256, 3, [1], 8, 14, 34 pp. Inserted and not included in pagination: presentation leaf, main frontispiece, main half-title page, main title page, contents leaf, Apocrypha, family register pages, New Testament frontispiece, New Testament half-title page, and New Testament title page. Full leather boards with elaborate gilt tooling front and rear. Gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Black glazed endpapers. Two frontispieces, main and New… Read More