Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) Rowland Hill. A New Hieroglyphical Bible for the Amusement & Instruction of Children. Frontispiece plate, engraved title page (both worn), numerous text illustrations. 144 pages. 12mo, publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, worn, boards nearly detached; lacking the outside half of the folding double frontispiece, but with a similar double folding frontispiece from another older edition laid in, moderate dampstaining to first 3 leaves only, final gathering detached but present, lacking rear free endpaper. Boston: W. Norman, circa 1794

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First American edition of this popular rebus-style interpretation of biblical passages, followed by short illustrated lives of Jesus and the apostles, and a few select hymns. Another hieroglyphical Bible was produced in Worcester in 1788, which was a different composition. Evans 26651; Rosenbach 181; Sabin 53019; Welch 513.1.