May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. [547] (of [548]) leaves; lacks last leaf, presumably blank. extra-illustrated with a contemporary suite of engraved bible illustrations comprising pictorial title (The Historical Part of the Holy Bible . . . Curiously Engrav'd by J. Cole) with undated Ludgate Hill imprint of Richard Ware; frontispiece; 51 plates, each with 4 subjects; 5 folding maps of the Eastern Mediterranean and/or Holy Land; and plan of Jerusalem. bound between: The Book of Common Prayer . . . Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. [56] leaves, preceded by extraneous contemporary engraved portrait of King George II, and additional title from another edition. and: A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation . . . Carefully Perused and Enlarged by John Downame, B. D. [36] leaves, including final blank. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, 249x196 mm, contemporary red morocco handsomely gilt, covers decorated with floral border around black morocco center onlay with Holy Monogram within flame border, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in one with ornamental tooling in the rest, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; occasional light toning and marginal foxing, short clean tear in a few maps. Tipped in front is a leaf with calligraphic presentation within hand-drawn cartouche in ink: "The Gift of Mrs. Hearle to her goddaughter and grandchild Lucy Kimber 1756." Armorial bookplate of Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 2nd Baronet G.C.B. (1779-1862), on front pastedown. Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1755; 1755; London: R. Ware, 1752

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excellent copy of the King James Bible, Book of Common Prayer, and abridged standard concordance in mid-18th-century editions. Herbert 1110; Griffiths 1755/4.