Name: Auction: Bible (English; Authorised Version) The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 812 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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London: Robert Barker, 1613 [i.e. 1614]. 4to (21.2 x 15cm), contemporary panelled sheep, signatures [superscript pi]A8 A-4S8, retaining both the general and New Testament title-pages (each with woodcut border), various ownership inscriptions including 'The Bible of Mr Robt Abraham June the 24 1746' (i.e. the year after the Forty-Five), variable browning and staining, general title-page frayed and with old repairs, New Testament title (3E3) torn with partial loss of woodcut border, worming to foot of quires A-P occasionally touching bottom line of text, tears with loss in D3, 2F7, 3B5, Concordances (1615) and Psalms (1618, defective) bound in at rear [Darlow &amp; Moule (1968 ed.) 331]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New

Bible (English; Authorised Version)

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Bible (English; Authorised Version)

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New

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