Leipzig: Goldenen Klassiker-Bibel Max Herzig, 1894. German Gothic text printed in double columns, each within a red border and with red decorative initials throughout. 2 volumes (Old & New Testaments). Very thick folios, illustrated with 127 fantastic titled chromolithographic plates by various European artists including Ridinger, Luca Giordano, Andrea Appiani, Philippe de Champagne, Nicolas Poussin, Paolo Veronese, Francesco Barbieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, et al., all with tissue guards. Elaborate publisher's binding, with highly ornamental beveled covers featuring an inlaid..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932. Printed in red and black. Small folio, full red morocco elaborately stamped in gilt & blind with numerous borders enclosing four rectangles, also with borders; raised bands with 6 decorated panels on the spine, by the French Binders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932. Printed with the Greek type of Robert Proctor, the third book for which the type has been used, the others being The Oresteia, (1904) and The Odyssey, (1909). Two leather bookplates and the..... More

Boston: Hinkley, 1904. Numerous illustrations with tissue guards and colored frontispieces. 14 volumes, tall 8vo, 3/4 brown calf, raised bands with blind stamped design, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Boston: Hinkley, no date, circa 1904. Limited Edition. A very handsome set. Very good(+). Limited and extra illustrated edition. One of 500 numbered copies designed by D.B. Updike and the Merrymount Press. More

Scotland: The Booksellers, 1784. 384 pages. Thick 12mo, full contemporary calf with blind-stamped borders on covers and gilt-ruled un-lettered spine. [Scotland]: Printed for and sold by the Booksellers, 1784. Some toning and light foxing throughout, else a very good solid copy, lacking the front endpaper. More

102 pages. Slim 8vo printed wrappers (quite worn; spine repaired with tape). Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1881. Good only but internally clean. Ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro. More

Stuttgart: Belser, 1984. Over 100 colorful illustrations embellished with gold; decorated initial letters throughout. 8vo, full brown leather, elaborately decorated in blind-stamp; raised bands & papal seal on spine. (Stuttgart: Belser, 1984). Limited Edition. Beautiful facsimile of a 13th century bible,translated by St. Jerome, in the Vatican Library (Codex Vaticanus Latinus 39). Signed by the Prefect of the Bibliteca Apostolica Vaticana, this is an edition of 600 copies, but this one is marked "Sample not for sale." Housed in a...... More

London: Folio Society, 1967. Illustrated with delicate copper engravings by Ru Van Rossem. small slim 4to, peach silk, (spine faded) in publishers box. A near fine copy in a lightly worn slipcase. Love Lyrics from Ancient Palestine. More

New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1984. Hebrew texts, English translations, introduction, and new liturgies. Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander... Liturgies edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein... Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin. Original frontispiece lithograph, signed & dated. 37 watercolor plates. 323pp. Folio, cloth, d.w. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1984. A fine copy. New Translations of Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, Ruth and Lamentations, with explanatory notes. Text in Hebrew and English. One of..... More

Edinburgh: D. Hunter Blair, 1819. Each section with individual title page. Unpaginated. Thick 12mo, printed double column with rather small type. Handsomely bound in full contemporary burgundy morocco with ornate gilt-stamped covers and spine. Edinburgh: printed by D. Hunter Blair & J. Bruce, 1819. Contemporary gift inscription on preliminary page, else a rather clean and attractive copy. Pocket size bible. More

New York: American Bible Society. Set of 31 slim booklets in a cloth box. A complete Bible with most volumes being single Books but with several in combination. The 12mo booklets (between 50 to 170pp each) are staple-bound in the original flexible maroon cloth. New York: American Bible Society, (no date, circa 1915). A fine set in a good box. More

London: Nonesuch Press, 1963. The Authorized or King James Version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha. 105 reproductions of sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. 3 vols., 8vo, gilt- dec. cloth. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. Fine. Vol. I: The Old Testament, Genesis to Kings. Vol. II: The Old Testament, Chronicles to Malachi. Vol. III: The New Testament, followed by the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. More