[Rarebooks] FS: 1864 American Family Bible. "Arranged for Photographic Portraits"

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(BIBLE) THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, TOGETHER 
WITH THE APOCRYPHA: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former 
Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. The Text Conformable to the 
Oxford Edition of the Year of Our Lord 1610, and the American Bible Society's 
Original Standard Edition of 1816. Philadelphia: William W. Harding. 1864. 
Lg. 4to. 2 vols. in 1, each with a title page and an added engraved 
chromolithograph title. (4),788;278,116,(279)-600,42,22pp. Double column text. 
Including a Concordance and the "Psalms of David in Metre." Illustrated with maps 
and plates. Following the Apocrypha are 3 leaves for family records (partly 
filled in by the Tower family) and two heavy cardboard leaves with cutouts 
designed to hold daguerreotype-size family photos. Orig. elaborately gilt 
decorated full brown morocco, extremities lightly rubbed, large fore-edge 
brass clasp. A.e.g. Moire silk endpapers.   An attractive copy.      $400.00 
(trade discount allowed)
The spine reads, in gold, "Holy Bible. Arranged for Photographic Portraits 
and Family Album."

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
P.O. Box 464
Santa Monica, CA 90406
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