[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of the 1st folio Bible printed in N. Amer. w/all engravings & The Apocrypha

[Karmbooks at aol.com]

(BIBLE IN ENGLISH) THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments: 
with the Apocrypha. Translated Out of the Original Tongues... Worcester: 
Isaiah Thomas. 1791. Folio. 2 volumes in 1. (4),460;(4),(461)-1012pp. 50 
copper-engraved plates, calligraphic metal-cut title-pages, including the sectional 
title-pages for the O.T., Volume II and for the N.T. plus woodcut head- and 
tailpieces. Original full paneled calf, red morocco spine label. the 
binding has been lacquered at an early date and is scratched in several places; 
the joints are rubbed and partially cracked; but in all, this is a very 
desirable example. Housed in a new cloth clamshell box, leather label. The plates, 
engraved by Amos Doolittle, Samuel Hill, Joseph H. Seymour, and others, are 
variously foxed and spotted, and show some offsetting; one has its caption 
torn away, one other has the bottom margin torn away (no loss of any 
letterpress), and several others have occasional small tears entering from the 
margins and small pieces missing; the text is toned throughout with a number of 
relatively minor spots and stains.      $12,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
First edition of the first folio Bible printed in North America, here with 
the full compliment of engravings (not in all copies) and containing The 
Apocrypha (also not in all copies). Hills, The English Bible in America, 29; 
Darlow & Moule (and likewise Herbert, Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions 
of the English Bible), 1353; O'Callaghan, A List of Editions of the Holy 
Scriptures Printed in America, pp. 38-41; Rumball-Petre, Rare Bibles, 171; 
Evans 23186; see also, Oswald, Printing in the Americas, chapter III, "First 
American Printing of the Bible."

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
P.O. Box 464
Santa Monica, CA 90406
Tel. (310) 451-4342; Fax. (310) 458-5930
Email: karmbooks at aol.com