As you peruse the January New Arrivals, you might notice some interesting volumes. Here are a few rare books we recently acquired:
Drummond, William. __Review of the Governments of Sparta and Athens__. London: W. Bulmer & Co.. 1794. Library buckram. 282pp. Ex-library, rebound in brown buckram. Foxing. $352 [426239]
. __New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Translated out of the Latin Vulgate, Diligently Compared with the Original Greek, and First Published by the English College of Rheims, Anno 1582. With the Original Preface, Arguments and Tables, Marginal Notes, and Annotations. To Which Are Now Added, An Introductory Essay; and a Complete Topical and Textual Index.__. New York: Jonathan Leavitt; Boston: Crocker and Brewster. 1834. Full leather. 458pp. 8vo. Contents: Title, i; verso, Certificate of Copyright, dated 1833, John H. Turney’s Stereotype; Notice, Recoomendations and Certificate, pp. iii, iv; Introductory Address to Protestants, pp. 5-8; Preface, pp. 9-23; Intro. Remarks, pp. 24-26; Text: Matt. to Apocalypse, pp. 27-438; Appendix, 1 p.; Explication of Certain Words, 1 p.; Index, pp. 441-458. This edition accompanied by a certificate (p. iv) in these words: “We have compared this New-York edition of the Romish Testament and Annotations with the first publication of that volume, which was issued at Rheims in 1582; and after examination, we do hereby certify, that the present reprint is an exact and faithful copy of the original work, without abridgement or addition, except that the Latin of a few phrases which were translated by the annotators, and some unimportant expletive words were undesignedly omitted. The orthography also has been modernized.” Full leather, edge-worn. Foxing. Note: See Herbert #1803. $500 [426105]
. __Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sicti V. Pont. Max. Kussu Recognita Atque Edita__. Antverpiae: Ex Officina Plantiniana. 1664. Full leather. 1055pp. Ex-library. Full leather, edge-worn, cracked & peeling at spine. Closures/clasps removed. Foxing. Quarto. $127 [423998]
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