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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps and Ephemera | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 4th December 2019 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing Details: Tuesday 3 December 10.00am to 5.00pm Morning of sale |
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| Auction Lots - Page 5 | |||
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| Breeches Bible [Geneva Translation]The Bible: That is the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Old and New Testament. Cambridge: University Press, 1992. 8vo, full calf in a period style, a.e.g. in publisher's box, printed on acid-free paper, with explanatory pamphlet. "Reissue" of the 1591 edition of John Legate.John Legate's printing of the first Bible in Cambridge was not merely an act of production, but instead a direct challenge to the supremacy of London's printers, specifically the Queen's. By charter, the Queen's Printers had the exclusive right to the highly lucrative Bible trade. However, by charter of Henry VIII (confirmed by Elizabeth) the university had the right to print 'omnimodos libros', or all manner of books. Not unsurprisingly, a legal challenge followed, which the University Press defended to Lord Burghley (Chancellor of the University at the time) both by reference to their charter and by challenging the benefits of the monopoly. An agreement was reached and the Bible released for sale, however Cambridge would not produce another edition until 1629. The 1591 Bible is now rare, with two of the three known institution copies being imperfect. This limited facsimile was produced from the Bible Society and British Library copies, and omits Apocrypha. It was produced to mark the 400th anniversary of Cambridge's Biblical production and celebrate the long and noble history of the Press. £150 - 250 |
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| The Holy Bible [KJV]KJV bound before Sternhold and Hopkins. KJV: Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1628 [Lacking OT title, dated from NT]; Sternhold: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1629. 8vo, full contemporary paneled calf; unpaginated, signed: A8 [lacking A1 and 8], A8-3R8 [lacking B7, N8, 2S3+6, 3D2]; Sternhold: A8-F8 [lacking D8 and G1-end (?G8)].Herbert 411 [but no Geanealogies and map] £100 - 200 |
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| The Holy Bible [KJV]Bound after The Book of Common Prayer and before the Index Biblicus and Sternhold and Hopkins. BCP: Cambridge: Printed by John Field, Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1666; OT: As before, 1668; NT: As before, 1666; Index: As before, 1668; Sternhold: As before, 1666. 4to, full calf, sometime heavily rebacked; unpaginated, signed BCP: A4-H4, I1 [Finis]; OT: [1 (title before BCP)], B4-2Q4; Apocrypha: A4-I4; NT: A4-M4; Index: [1], B2-3B2, 3C1 [Finis]; Sternhold: A4-D4, E1-2 [Finis].Sometimes known as the 'Preaching Bible' because of its convenient size, whilst still maintaining a large and legible page.Herbert 697 £150 - 250 |
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| The Holy Bible [KJV]Bound after the Book of Common Prayer and before Sternhold and Hopkins. BCP: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, 1706; OT: As before, 1706; NT: As before, 1706; Sternhold: Printed by W.B. for the Company of Stationers, 1706. Folio, contemporary full panelled calf, boards with central silver medallions engraved 'J[oseph].B[aylis]. 1709', metal corner-pieces and clasps; pp. unpaginated, signed BCP: A6-K6; OT: A2, A6-3K6, 3L2; Apoc.: 3M6-4A6; NT: 4B6-4S6, 4T4, 4U6-4X6; Sternhold: A2-L2 [restoration to pre-lims with later ffep retaining family details from old]; add. eng. tit. by I. Sturt, inhabited initials; provenance: Joseph Baylis his Bible 1724 (printed on fly leaf and rfep) with MSS note 'Given by his Grandfather Richard Handcock' and with additional family details on ffep and upper pastedown.Herbert 889 £100 - 200 |
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| The Holy Bible [KJV]Bound after the Book of Common Prayer and before John Downame, A Brief Concordance. BCP: Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1726 [but with additional eng. title for Richard Ware]; OT: no main title [?Baskett, 1726, but with add. titles for J. Cole's series of engravings and eng. tit. by J. Sturt for Richard Ware]; NT: Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1725 [no add. title]; Downame Concordance: Printed by D. Leach for R. Ware, 1726. 4to, full green calf, boards with gilt panelling, spine ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; unpaginated, signed: BCP: A8-F8, G4, H2; OT: A2-8 [lacking A1], B8-2T8, 2U4; Apocrypha: A8-K8; NT: A8-N8, O4; Index: A4-E4; Concordance: A4-H4, I3 [?lacking final blank]; eng. tit. and 51 eng. plates (bearing four scenes) by J. Cole; provenance: James Digby Firth, F.L.S. (bookplate on upper pastedown) — C.G. Kay Sharp, M.D. (booklabel upper pastedown).Herbert 974 [presumed, lacking main title, though agreeing else]; ESTC N472925 [ESTC without BCP or Concordance, agreeing with 1725 NT and add. Ware titles]KJV. Bound after the Book of Common Prayer and before Sternhold and Hopkins. BCP and OT: Oxford: John Baskett, 1733; NT: As before but London; Sternhold: A. Wilde for the Company of Stationers, 1733. 4to, full calf, later rebacked; Apocrypha and Index present, separately signed. Herbert 1019 [without Cole engravings]KJV. Bound after The Book of Common Prayer and before Sternhold and Hopkins. BCP: Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1770; KJV: As before, 1770; Sternhold: Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers, 1768. 4to (in 8s), full later leather (last leaf of Psalms restored, last page supplied in facsimile). [3] £150 - 250 |
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| 19th Century BiblesKJV bound with The Psalms of David in Metre. KJV: Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by R. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, n.d. but ?1806; Psalms: Edinburgh: Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1809. 8vo, later leather. Cambridge Stereotype Edition. The 1806 edition was likely the first English Bible to bear the Society's name on its title. Agrees generally with Herbert 1488 KJV bound after BCP and before Brady and Tate Psalms. All: Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1853. 8vo, contemporary leather, sometime rebacked, gift details in blind and gilt, two metal clasps. A gift of the Lord Wharton Trust.Wycliffe, John (trans); Tyndale, William (trans)The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Parallel Columns. John Russell Smith, 1874. 8vo, later leather.KJV with Henry & Scott commentaries. Birmingham: Eld & Blackham, [c.1899]. Folio, full leather, sometime rebacked, boards decorated in blind, upper board with gilt titles, metal corner-pieces and clasps; illus with chromolithograph plates.KJV. Glasgow: Printed by William Collins for The Scottish Bible Society Edinburgh, [c.1906]. 8vo, later leather; 96 coloured plates and 17 coloured maps. Emerald Teacher's Bible. [5] £100 - 200 |
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| The New TestamentFive examples of the New Testament, being:Beza, Theodoro (ed.). Novum Testamentum, Amsterdam: Apud Iohannem Ianssonium, 1650. 16mo, full vellum; eng title.Greek New Testament. Samuel Bagster, nd. 8vo, full crushed morocco, boards elaborately panelled in blind, spine likewise, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gauffered edges.Latin New Testament. Lipsiae: Avenarius et Mendelssohn, 1850. 4to, later brown-leather backed red leather boards.Shaw, Henry (designer). The New Testament...with engravings on wodd from designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino...and others. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. 4to, full red leather by Riviere, boards ruled in gilt with gilt foliate borders enclosing central blind panel with gilt roundel, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, board edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, a.e.g.; lavishly illustrated with borders to text, vignettes, full-page illustrations and devices. With another identical copy in black leather by Riviere. Herbert 1951 [Herbert is 1864] [5] £150 - 250 |
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| The BibleA collection of books on the Bible in production, illumination, interpretation, translation and publication. The collection includes books produced by the British Library and scholars such as Christopher de Hamel; books on specific Bibles (such as the Gutenberg Bible and the Macclesfield Psalter); dictionaries and encyclopaedias of the Bible; more general books on illuminated manuscripts and bookbindings; and even Rosnin's The Bible Code. Also included is the Turner published Bible using illustrations from the Vatican Library. A broad overview both of the Bible as a text and as an object, capturing the ways people reacted to the beauty of its words with beauty of art and design. [39] £80 - 120 |
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| Book of Common Prayer [BCP]Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. William Pickering [and the Chiswick Press], 1853. 8vo, full plum morocco, boards with blind panelling, upper board lettered directly in gilt, spine lettered directly in gilt and panelled in blind in compartments, chocolate endpapers, all edges gilt over red; title printed in red and black, port. frontis., decorative borders by Mary Byfield after Durer, Holbein, Tory and others.Byfield was a life-long employee of the Chiswick Press and this Pickering edition of Elizabeth's prayer book is widely considered her masterpiece. It weaves old and new designs into a harmonious and attractive setting for the Caslon type, which simultaneously illuminates and contextualises the words it encloses.With the Folio Society edition of the same (2013 reprint of the 2004 first Folio edition). 8vo, quarter bound in green leather gilt over marbled boards, green endpapers, top edges gilt, others green, green marker, in slipcase decorated in gilt; illustrated after the Pickering edition. [2] £60 - 80 |
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| Book of Common Prayer [BCP]Oxford: Printed at the Theater at Oxford, and are to be sold by William Leake at the Crown between the two Templegates in Fleet-Street, 16?8(?)[vide infra]. 4to, later red leatherette; unpaginated, signed: A4, B2, A4-L4, M2 [lacking K3-4].Although the date on the title has an MSS correction to 1688, the prayer for the King's Majesty names Charles as monarch. The prayer for the Royal Family uses the form "Queen Catherine, James Duke of York". As such the text at least must date from between 1669 (when Queen Mary died) and 1685 (when James ascended the throne). Unfortunately, the book is closely shaved at the bottom edge, so it is difficult to be sure of the final digit in the date, however it would seem to be 168?. This does not fit the seller's name in the imprint however. According to Plomer's Dictionaries, William Leake died in 1681 and his name last appears in the Term Catalogue in 1679 (whilst in partnership with his son John, who set up as a printer betwen 1681 and 1693). It is possible that the final digit is a '0', which would make the date 1680, or the '8' may be a misprint.With Book of Common Prayer bound before Sternhold and Hopkins. BCP: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, 1707; Sternhold: Printed by W.B., for the Company of Stationers, 1706. 8vo, full calf, later sturdily rebacked with leather, boards ruled in gilt and panelled in blind; unpaginated, signed: a8-b8, c2, A4, B8-Y8, Z4; Sternhold: A4-G4. [2] £100 - 200 |
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| Book of Common Prayer [BCP]Printed by John Baskett...And the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1713.Bound with A Companion to the Altar. Printed for John Beercroft, 1751; and N. Brady A New Version of the Psalms of David. Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochran, 1754. 8vo, full crimson straight-grain morocco, sometime rebacked retaining original spine, boards with inlaid green morocco borders ruled in gilt enclosing gilt ruled panel with floral cornerpieces, red endpapers with red morocco borders decorated with gilt dentelles enclosing gilt borders with floral cornerpieces, a.e.g.; unpaginated, signed BCP: A12, B3, B2-8, C8-2B8, 2C4; Companion: pp. 46; A4-E4, F3 [?lacking F4]; Brady: pp. viii, 232, 4; [4], A4-2F4, 2G2; interspersed with Historical Cuts by P. La Vergne and M. Ven Der Gucht from the series sold by Robert Whitledge, frontis. and 51 (of 52) plates.Book of Common Prayer [BCP]. Oxford: Printed by John Baskett [at the University], 1716. Bound with Sternhold and Hopkins. Printed by Stephen Gilbert, for the Company of Stationers, 1716. 8vo, later red straight-grain morocco, boards with roll-tooled floral borders, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, others with floral motif, gilt roll-tooled board corners and turn-ins, green watered silk endpapers, a.e.g.; illustrated with 15 of the Whitledge series of Historical cuts (lacking some pages). [2] £80 - 120 |
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| Howard, Rev. LeonardThe Book of Common Prayer...Illustrated and Explained By a Full and Comprehensive Paraphrase at the Bottom of each Page. Printed for I. Pottinger, at the Royal Bible, Pater-Noster Row, 1761. 4to, full calf, sometime rebacked in leather; pp. [2], vi, iv, 578, [2]; port. frontis., 29 eng. plates.Howard was a contradictory sort. From his beginnings as a post office clerk, he took orders and achieved his D.D. in 1745, by which time he was a curate of two parishes in London and chaplain to the Prince of Wales. He would be appointed to further benefices by the Crown and became chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales. Despite all this, he was frequently in pecuniary distress and imprisoned for debt. To raise money, he offered fraudulent subscriptions to books he might have been writing. He did publish several works, including this unofficial BCP, but his literary liftings added to his dubious reputation.ESTC T134404 £60 - 80 |
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| Book of Common Prayer [BCP]Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1762. 8vo, contemporary full red calf, gilt foliate borders to boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt roll-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; unpaginated, signed: a8-b8, 4, B8-2S8, 2T4; provenance: Mary Courtown 1795 (owner's inscription fly leaf and bookplate with Courtown arms to upper pastedown).Mary Courtown is likely Lady Mary, daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, who married James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown. The versos of both endpapers have, on separate pages laid down, additional prayers in her hand. The front bearing the Prayer at Our First Entrance into the Church and the rear the text to All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night (though with Glory to Thee, My God as variant opening line).John Baskerville was one of the most important English typographers, printers and publishers, whose typefaces inspired the computer font named for him. His Cambridge editions of the BCP had several variants, this one is single-columned and does not have the lozenge borders. £60 - 80 |
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| Jones, OwenThe Psalms of David [The Victoria Psalter]. 1861-2. Folio, full Relievo binding, sometime rebacked retaining elements of original spine; 104 chromolithograph pages (with signs of later restoration with later facsimile print of work and other restoration).idem Book of Common Prayer. John Murray, 1845. 8vo, full vellum, boards with broad ecclesiastical borders enclosing central gilt cross, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, blue endpapers, a.e.g.; with illuminated chromolithograph section titles, borders, vignettes, initials and ornaments by Jones, other illustrations, printed in various colours. First Owen Jones edition for Murray.Jones was a hugely influential designer, architect, artist and book publisher, who was a guiding influence on the later Arts and Crafts movement. He was one of the earliest producers of chromolithographs in Britain and a leading light in the development of colour theory. He is also intrinsically linked with the brief history of the relievo binding process through his ecclesiastical works. This style of binding was intended to evoke the heavy carved wood tracery and decoration of English churches and his Psalms, immensely popular in its day, was one of the last of this style produced.The BCP was a sumptuous expression of John Murray's experiments with colour and a critical success for its striking design. Alas, in common with so many critical successes it was a commercial failure, but today is considered amongst the most important of Jones' commercial works. £100 - 200 |
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| Book of Common Prayer [BCP]Liturgia Anglicana Polyglotta. The Book of Common Prayer...in Eight Languages. Samuel Bagster, 1822. 8vo, full vellum, boards with gilt dentelles bordering a central onlaid green morocco panel with floral borders with elaborate cornerpieces and onlaid blue and red morocco leaves, enclosing central gilt panel comprised of alternating ruled and pontille fillets, bevelled board edges spine richly gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering-piece in one and lettered directly at foot with publisher, others with floral panels each with two onlaid green morocco roundels with inner red morocco discs, inner dentelles, yellowed endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered, four red silk markers; provenance: Canon Mowbray Trotter (Canon of Gloucester Cathedral) by bequest from Lady [Georgina] Bloomfield [nee Liddell].With Jones, Owen Book of Common Prayer. John Murray, 1863. 8vo, full panelled calf, spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers all edges red; with borders, initials and vignettes designed by Jones. A later, less elaborate, edition of Murray's famous BCP.Lee, Rev. Frederick George The Directorium Anglicanum. Thomas Bosworth, 1865. 4to, later rebound in full leather retaining original lettering-piece on spine; frontis., 14 plates at rear as called for. Second revised ed. A manual of directions for the right celebration of the Holy Communion - and also an admonishment to those who have strayed from strict liturgical practice. [3] £60 - 80 |
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| Private PressGill, Eric The Four Gospels. Folio Society, 2018. Folio, org. red cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, upper board with central gilt angel after Gill, t.e.g., grey silk marker, in slipcase; floriated and inhabited initials and headers by Gill.Coverdale, Miles The Book of Psalms. The Haymarket Press, 1930. Folio, full parchment; 8 facsimile reproductions of folios from Queen Mary's Psalter, floriated initials (first ten initials later coloured). Limited ed. of 875 copies, this one unnumbered.The Private Press movement of the early 20th-century found frequent inspiration in the Bible, few more so than Gill, whose sensuous and disturbing figures show a very personal inspiration. The Haymarket Psalter instead opts for a faux-medievalism, with decorative initials and rubrication, but still maintains the cleanliness of line which typifies the style of such presses. [2] £50 - 70 |
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Ecclesia CatholicaOfficium Beatae Mariae Virginis Nuper reformatum, & S.Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum. Ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. recogniti. Antwerp: Ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1759. 4to (in 8s). full leather by Townsend, sometime rebacked, marbled endpapers, red edges; printed in red and black, eng. vignette on title, 57 full-page engravings, inhabited initials, decorative woodcut tailpieces (some in red), red printer's mark at colophon. Some marginal staining, likely from damp, to final leaves.The Council of Trent ordered the revising and standardising of liturgical books for the final approval of the Pontiff. The Breviary came out in 1568, the Missal in 1570 and the Office of Our Lady in 1571. As was common in book production of the day, a monopoly was established for each, though the original holders had the right to enter into agreements with other printers. Thus, Christophe Plantin was able to print the Breviary in Flanders and Brabant, and later had approval to print the Office of the Virgin as well. The Officina Platiniana began printing luxury editions of Catholic liturgy under the Archduke Albert of the Netherlands and the Infante Isabella and this led to their superb 1601 edition, with 41 plates. This further expanded in 1609 with additional plates to make the 57 used here. This edition is one of several 17th and 18th century reprints of the work. £200 - 300END OF SALE |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Books, Maps and Ephemera | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 4th December 2019 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing Details: Tuesday 3 December 10.00am to 5.00pm Morning of sale |
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