{"product_id":"1613400-1679-bbible","title":"1613400 1679 Bbible","description":"10479. \u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e17th Century King James BIBe.  1679.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e[BIBLE). \u003cem\u003eThe Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translation Diligently Compared and Revised by his Majesties Special command  \u003c\/em\u003e[Amsterdam: Stephen Swart], 1683. Bound with: The \u003cem\u003eWhole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter. \u003c\/em\u003eLondon: Company of Stationers, 1679.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003eFolio in sixes, measuring \u003cfont face=\"Aptos\"\u003e14.75 \u003c\/font\u003ex .91i1d1es: 7'£  x-xx A-3M 3N-O a-dx' A-CH. Engraved and letterpress title pages, sfr double-page maps. Full contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, raised bands, tooled brass hasps.  Joints cracked, loss to base of spine, free endpapers lacking. Rough hand-color to heads of Moses and Aaron on engraved title; ink and pencil annotations to pastedowns, title pages, and margins, in addition to inscriptions noted below. Ownership inscription of Nicholas Brooke to verso of letterpress title noting his purchase of the book in 1705 and the death of his wife in 1706. inscription at end of Second Table, noting the purchase of the Bible from Nicholas Brooke\u003cfont face=\"Aptos\"\u003e’\u003c\/font\u003es widow for seventeen shillings by Richard Brindford in 1743. Nineteenth-century Boulter family chronology to verso of New Testament title page and map of Canaan.  Note to verso of final leaf: \"This Book was bought for 12s in London by Henry Boulter, Nancy Cefenlcce (Celiillys) Radnorshire in the year of our Lord 1834.\"Browning, staining, and clipping to text block, sometimes affecting text; hole to Bb5;1ip to lll6;loss to a34; bird sketched to margin of c2; rip to e1; loss to foot of H2in Psalms; occasional paper repairs throughout text; all maps with  damage and loss, some mounted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003eImposing seventeenth-century folio KingJames Bible, bound with a seventeenth-century printing of the PsaJms, and containing six double-page engraved maps: \"All the Earth,\" \"Paradise,\" \"Israel's Peregrination,\" \"Jerusalem,\" \"Canaan,\" and \"The Travels of St Paul.\" The King James translation remains, along with the works of Shakespeare, a cornerstone of English literature; Thomas Macaulay famously described it as \"a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power\" \u003cem\u003e(Printing and the Mind of Man). \u003c\/em\u003eThe extensive ownership annotations trace this Bible's movement from Nicholas Brooke at the turn of the eighteenth century, to Richard Brindford in 1743, to the Boulter family of Wales in 1834. Herbert 782. A wonderful survival.\u003c\/div\u003e  Fine\/Very Fine","brand":"1679","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45899656331437,"sku":"10479","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/files\/10479.jpg?v=1775763574","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1613400-1679-bbible","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}