The Holy Bible, Containing The Old And New Testaments, Together With The Apocrypha: Translated From The Original Tongues,And With The Former Translations Diligently Compared And Revised; With Canne's Marginal Notes And References; To Which Are Added An Index, An Alphabetical Table of all the Names in the Old and New Testaments with their Significations; Table Of Scripture Weights, Measures, And Coins, &c. Concordance, And The Psalms Of David In Metre; Kimber & Sharpless Edition
Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1851. leather_bound. 770 (54) (18). 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with steel engravings of biblical events. Tissue guards of latter foxed with offsetting to text, affecting borders of the plates but not the images. "The Resurrection" plate from original by C.Vanloo. Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths of the Harrington family, the infant mortality rate a common reality. Presentation copy slip to Betsey W. Harrington from her brother Emerson Blood dated 1851. Two chromolithograph plates. Scattered toning. Binding with raised bands, spine panels and covers heavily gilt in floral and pictorial motifs with modest rubbing to back cover. Full brown morocco. Aeg. Very good. Item #22639
Price: $650.00