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Three Religious Texts in Attractive Bindings
Sold
$50
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing October 14th, 2024
Category
Description
Comprising LA SAINTE BIBLE, QUI CONTIENT LE VIEUX ET LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT (The Hague: Backhuyzen, 1762) with engraved title page supplied from another edition, dated 1770, bound together with LES PSEAUMES DE DAVID (Same place and publisher) thick 12mo, in a richly gilt full calf binding of the period, ex-Cloisters Collection, Baltimore; Thomas Brownell, comment., THE FAMILY PRAYER-BOOK (New Haven: 1823) 4to, contemporary full calf, the upper board stamped "Frederick Lee;" and THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER ... OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH (Phila.: Ash, 1833) 8vo, original full diced calf with pictorial blindstamping.
Condition
The Bible has considerable wear, but the leatherwork remains quite attractive. Family Prayer-Book has weak upper joint, bumped corners. Common Prayer has been rebacked