Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BASIS OF THE JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION (MORMONS.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha. 11 plates. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; foxing, dampstaining toward rear. Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Phinney, 1828

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When Joseph Smith set out to create a new translation of the Bible in 1830, he began with a copy of Phinney's 1828 quarto edition. Changes were written in the margins by a series of assistants; the Joseph Smith Translation was then published from the annotated Bible in 1867. The original annotated Bible is still in the possession of the Community of Christ (RLDS).
This Phinney Bible is not annotated by Joseph Smith, but it is from the same edition. A 4-page family register preceding the Apocrypha gives births and deaths through 1863 in the family of Levi Kelley (1797-1859) of Carmel, NY. Hills 618.