Lot 200F: Extensive Lot of Religious Texts and Others

Extensive Lot of Religious Texts and Others
Extensive Lot of Religious Texts and Others, 1) Printed by Samuel Bagster, London, 1836. Title translates to The Holy Covenant, The Lord of Redemption, Yeshua the Messiah. 403pp, hardcover, worn leather binding. Completely in Hebrew, except for roman pagination. Label on inside front board identifies the binder as Burn & Sons, Kirby Street. Bagster and his son (known as Bagster the Younger) were influential publishers in London in the early 19th Century, perhaps most notable for biblical translations. Burn & Sons, also of London, was contracted to do the binding work for the British and Foreign Bible Society.
2) A) "The Holy Bible..containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues together with the apocrypha, concordance, and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. The text conformable to the original edition of the year of our Lord 1610, and the American Bible Society's original standard edition of 1816." William W. Harding, Philadelphia, 1870. Thich small quarto, heavily embossed and gilt worked full-morocco leather, all edges gilt. Both boards with decorative type title and bible quotations, deep decorative design. B) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New Testament...Sanborn & Carter, Portland, 1847. With frontis engraving and decorative 1843 title page. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4", worn leather binding with hinged tab and insert. Gilt edges, interior clean, good binding. 259pp. C) The New Testament. American Bible Society, NY, Stereotyped by Smith & Valentine. 1842, Printed by D. Fanshaw. Hardcover, full leather. 3" x 4 1/2", 344pp.
3) A) Sacred Poetry: Psalms and Hymns. Jeremy Belknap, D.D., Published by Thomas Wells, Boston, 1820. 276pp, Hardcover original well worn leather 3 1/2" x 6", damp stains and foxing. B) Holy Bible, Published by Edmund Cushing, Lunenburg, MA, 1826, stereotyped by B. J. Collins, NY. (Moses Davis provenance??), front endpaper torn, well worn throughout fair condition. 792pp. C) The New Testament, The American Bible Society, NY, 1819, Stereotyped by D. G. Bruce, hardcover 74 1/2" x 7", original and rough leather boards and spine, poor but intact condition. D) Book of Psalms. American Bible Society, NY, 1888. Small hardcover, 4" x 6" (18mo), original black leather, gilt, distressed binding, fair condition.
4) The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Stereotyped by B. and J. Collins, New-York. Keene, Printed and published by S.A. Morrison & Co. 1818. Original leather binding. 381pp.
5) Consisting of A) Watson�s Complete Speller Oral and Written by J. Madison Watson published by A.s. Barnes & Company. 1880. B) The National Reader a selection of Excercises in Reading and Speaking Designed to Fill the same Place in the Schools of the United States, That is Held in those of Great Britain by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thomspon, Ewing, and others. By John Pierpoint. Published by Carter Hendee, and Co. and Hilliard Gray, and Co. 1833. C) Collin�s Stereotype Edition. English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. With an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations for Assisting the more advanced students to write with perspicuity and accuracy. by Lindley Murray. Published by Collins and co. 1823. D) English grammar with the improved Syntax. Part 1- Comprehending at one view what is necessary to be committed to memory. Part 2- Containing a Recapitulation with various illustrations and critical remarks. by J.M. Pup. AM. Published by Williard and Metcalf. 1825. E) Adam�s New Arithmetic. Arithmetic, is when the principles of operating by numbers are analytically explained. and synthetically applied: Thus combing the advantages to be derived both from the unductive and synthetic mode of instructing.... by Daniel Adams, M.D. Keene NH published by John Prentiss, 1827.
6) The Dispensatory of the United States of America. George B. Wood, M.D. and Franklin Bache, M.D. Grigg & Elliot, Philadelphia, 1836. Hardcover leather over board. Black morocco labels in gilt. Third edition, pp. 1171. Well worn, but interesting reference. 7) A) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New Testament...Sanborn & Carter, Portland, 1847. With frontis engraving and decorative 1843 title page. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4", worn leather binding with hinged tab and insert. Gilt edges, interior clean, good binding. 259pp. B) The New Testament. American Bible Society, NY, Stereotyped by Smith & Valentine. 1842, Printed by D. Fanshaw. Hardcover, full leather. 3" x 4 1/2", 344pp.

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