10th Apr, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Holy Bible - Illustrated
The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament and The New: Newly Translated out of the Original
Tongues ….
Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1703, folio in sixes, register
A-3K6, 3L2, 3M-4S6, 4T4 (3L2v a blank, 3M1 the start of the Apocrypha). Additional engraved title
by John Sturt, 172 plates (including 3 in preceding Book of Prayer), this edition not found in
Herbert, Apocrypha ends on 4A6v, NT ends on 4T4v (Table). Marginal tears, some reaching into
text, longer tears to 3K3-4, 3K1, 3Q6 3X14K2 (all without loss), tear to margin of Lazarus plate,
some light spots/staining, heavier at 2B4-5, dust making to head margin in places, occasional ink
spot, loss to lower corner margin of 3Q5 with slight loss of marginal note, small hole in 3A1 and
4P4 affecting two words, corner torn off Y5 and 3J6 but present, repaired tear to 4P1;
Preceded by
Book of Prayer, lacking title and preliminaries, register present - B2-J6, K2, significant tears to F2
and F5, a few other marginal tears, some affecting text;
And followed by
The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and
others ….
Printed by W.B. for the Company of Stationers, 1703, 42 pages, final two leaves torn, the last with
significant loss, lacking at least one leaf after page 42.
Contemporary gilt-tooled morocco binding with restoration to spine head and tail and board
corners;
Missal, Missale Romanum Ex Decreto Sacrosancti …..
Antwerp: Ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1817, folio in sixes, not collated, full page illustrations, silk fore-edge tabs, all edges gilt, full gilt-lettered morocco (re-backed retaining original back-strip) (2)
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 10th Apr, 2024
The sale includes a sketchbook of drawings of Southern China attributed to George Chinnery. English artist George Chinnery (1774-1852) left an extraordinary record of everyday life in Southern China in the early to mid-19th century, which has become an important source of historical information on the region.
Further highlights include an interesting archive of letters and ephemera relating to the composer and bandmaster Charles Coote (1809-1880), personal pianist to William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, and bandmaster and composer for stage productions put on by Charles Dickens. There is also several collections of 19th century photographs including an outstanding album with many views of Eton College and the River Thames at Windsor, Trinity College Cambridge, Switzerland, Gibraltar and Malta as well as an important photographic record of the Challenger Expedition, generally considered to be the foundation of oceanography.
Single owner collections include a large quantity of books on Polar Exploration and early Whaling. We are also pleased to offer a selection of books from the library of Fred Gettings, prolific author and expert on astrology, symbolism and arcane lore. The library includes many early editions of Nostradamus with several manuscript works on the famous French astrologer.
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