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300 299 Biblia Sacra - Holy Bible, Old Testament Biblia Sacra vulgatae Editionis... tomus primus. Antwerp: Plantin, 1624. Folio, half-title, engraved title-page, contemporary panelled embossed calf, embossed metallic corners and centrepieces, ownership inscriptions to half-title including a mention of Joannis van Helden and the date 1636, lacking clasps, some small rustholes and marks, occasionally affecting text, small wormholes affecting text particularly in latter quarter of book, some light browning, some wear to covers and joints £150-250 300 Book of Common Prayer, 1636/7 The Booke of Common Prayer... Edinburgh: Robert Young, 1637. Small folio in eights, title-page in red and black, contemporary calf with decorative gilt stamps to covers and later red morocco gilt label to spine, upper cover detached, bookplate of Robert John Archibald Steuart, some very slight occasional dampstaining and one or two small marginal closed tears [ESTC S113851 with cancells 2K7 & 8] £400-600
301 Brinsley, John The True Watch and Rule of Life.... tenth edition. London: John Beale, 1626. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, contemporary vellum, [ESTC S1115882], upper hinge broken, light soiling to first title £150-200 302 Chrysostom, Saint John Ioannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Commentaria in Novvm Testamentum Graecè & Latinè. Paris: Caroli Morelli, 1633. 2 volumes, folio in sixes, portrait, title-page in red and black, contemporary embossed calf, some light dampstaining and occasional small tears affecting text, rubbed, joints split, sold not subject to return (2) £120-180 303 Holy Bible in English, 1640 [Amsterdam: Thomas Stafford, 1640, According to the Copy printed at Edinburgh by Andro Hart, in the yeare 1610] Folio, contemporary calf, lacks [par.]1-6 & A1 (i.e. 7 leaves including Old Testament title-page), A2 torn with large amounts of loss, large closed tear to (2)A3, various notes and scribbles in an early hand especially to New Testament title-page, various small closed tears and some soiling and dampstaining throughout, Ff2-3 of New Testament detached and worn, joints split, rubbed [ESTC S1794] Note: An unusual bible, with the ESTC listing 4 copies in libraries in the British Isles and 1 copy in a North American library. £200-300 304 Holy Bible, English, 1599 The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1599. 4to, woodcut on (second printed) title, woodcuts in text, 19th century blindstamped calf, lacks the first title, first page of Genesis, P4-5, CCC1-2, and 11ff. of tables at end [Final leaf being QQQ1], A2 with slight loss of text at foot of page, N.T. title with over half torn away, DD7, EEE7 and FFF1 torn with loss of text, some running titles shaved, light stain to most lower margins, some dampstaining and soiling, upper board detached, [Herbert 247] £300-400
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