THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTEYNING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINALL TONGUES & WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REUISED BY HIS MAIESTIES SPECIALL COMANDEMENT. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. IMPRINTED AT L

THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTEYNING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINALL TONGUES & WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REUISED BY HIS MAIESTIES SPECIALL COMANDEMENT. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOT EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. This is the great “She Bible” with the proper reading found in Ruth 3:15 and Mathew 26:36 Reading “Then Commeth Judas with Them Unto a Place called Gethsemane”. Folio, in full leather likely rebound at a very early date with blind stamped front & rear boards. Ample margins. Black letter in double columns of 59 lines. A most desirable copy of an early issue (the printings continue to be debated) of one of the most important books printed in the English language. No new translation of the Bible into the English language was again accomplished until 1885. The remarkable events and personalities surrounding this translation commissioned by King James are well known and are numbered among the greatest scholarly collaborations of the western world. See Herbert 319 and 309 and Printing and the Mind of Man (114) quoting Macaulay, “a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.” CONDITION: The title page of the New Testament with the date “1611” has not been altered. The first title page and preliminary blanks are missing. Minor damp stains to top edges of the first 21 leaves and final 10 leaves. There is minor loss to the first leaf of the book (the second leaf of the Dedication) and the first leaf of the Epistle Dedicatory; missing the first two leaves of the Apocrytha; missing the second leaf of the Translators Notes; missing 9 leaves of the Almanac and Table & Calendar. Missing the second, third, fifth, & sixteenth leaves of the Genealogy (Arabic numbers 1-4; 7/8 and 31/32) as well as the map by Speed. There is occasional repair including: One leaf of Isaiah with loss of one word; Chapter X of Marke; the second leaf of the Actes of Apostles; Tear & repair with manuscript additions to the fourth leaf of the Acts; two small repairs to first full leaves of Epistles of Paul; ten words in manuscript; margin repair to Chapter II of the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothie; small tear (no loss) to second & third leaves of Epistle of Paul to the Hebrewes and margin repair to leaf four; tears to first two leaves of First Epistle of Peter and a repair to the final leaf. No hand written marginalia; book seller/collector notes to front paste down & two paste overs to what is likely an (unknown) owner’s signature to front paste down. Collation notation to final blank leaf and random letters & marks to rear paste down where the word “William?” is written on an oblique angle. The fourteen pages of the Genealogies are elaborately decorative. There is a small trail of a bookworm to the final eight leaves extending about 1/4″ through the lower margin. There is hand coloring (red) to the device on the page listing Holy Days. 9-25318 (15,000-25,000)

Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - August 2012

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	2022	$0.00	THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTEYNING THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINALL TONGUES & WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REUISED BY HIS MAIESTIES SPECIALL COMANDEMENT. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOT EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. This is the great “She Bible” with the proper reading found in Ruth 3:15 and Mathew 26:36 Reading “Then Commeth Judas with Them Unto a Place called Gethsemane”. Folio, in full leather likely rebound at a very early date with blind stamped front & rear boards. Ample margins. Black letter in double columns of 59 lines. A most desirable copy of an early issue (the printings continue to be debated) of one of the most important books printed in the English language. No new translation of the Bible into the English language was again accomplished until 1885. The remarkable events and personalities surrounding this translation commissioned by King James are well known and are numbered among the greatest scholarly collaborations of the western world. See Herbert 319 and 309 and Printing and the Mind of Man (114) quoting Macaulay, “a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.” CONDITION: The title page of the New Testament with the date “1611” has not been altered. The first title page and preliminary blanks are missing. Minor damp stains to top edges of the first 21 leaves and final 10 leaves. There is minor loss to the first leaf of the book (the second leaf of the Dedication) and the first leaf of the Epistle Dedicatory; missing the first two leaves of the Apocrytha; missing the second leaf of the Translators Notes; missing 9 leaves of the Almanac and Table & Calendar. Missing the second, third, fifth, & sixteenth leaves of the Genealogy (Arabic numbers 1-4; 7/8 and 31/32) as well as the map by Speed. There is occasional repair including: One leaf of Isaiah with loss of one word; Chapter X of Marke; the second leaf of the Actes of Apostles; Tear & repair with manuscript additions to the fourth leaf of the Acts; two small repairs to first full leaves of Epistles of Paul; ten words in manuscript; margin repair to Chapter II of the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothie; small tear (no loss) to second & third leaves of Epistle of Paul to the Hebrewes and margin repair to leaf four; tears to first two leaves of First Epistle of Peter and a repair to the final leaf. No hand written marginalia; book seller/collector notes to front paste down & two paste overs to what is likely an (unknown) owner’s signature to front paste down. Collation notation to final blank leaf and random letters & marks to rear paste down where the word “William?” is written on an oblique angle. The fourteen pages of the Genealogies are elaborately decorative. There is a small trail of a bookworm to the final eight leaves extending about 1/4″ through the lower margin. There is hand coloring (red) to the device on the page listing Holy Days. 9-25318 (15,000-25,000) Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - August 2012 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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