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This beautiful antique family Bible was printed in England circa 1870. Titled Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible containing the Old and New Testament; to which are annexed an extensive introduction; marginal references and illustrations; an exact summary of the exact books; a paraphrase of the most obscure or important parts, explanatory notes, evangelical reflections, etc... Many additional references and a life of the author, with numerous colored illustrations in oil and on steel. The bible is in very good condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns a rich patinated black leather with gilt accents, and antiqued brass locks...

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of The Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised; with Concordance and Psalms of David in Metre. The Text Conformable to the Oxford and the American Bible Society’s Standard Editions. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1885. Standard Edition. Illustrated. Large quarto, with original full leather carved and gilded boards. Gilded edges. Presented with a custom-made archival clamshell box. Presented is a beautifully restored and exquisitely bound Holy Bible from 1885. This family bible was published by National Publishing Company, in Philadelphia. The bible contains both the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with “text conformable to the Oxford and the American Bible Society’s Standard Editions.” It features a “History of the Religious Denominations of the World, both Ancient and Modern” compiled by Reverend H.D. Northrup, D.D., as well as a “Comprehensive and Critical History of the Books of the Holy Bible” compiled “expressly for this edition from the writings of William Smith, L.L.D.” It is decorated with a stunning full color title page, both color and black and white illustrations throughout, and three maps. It also contains its original family pages. This bible was produced as a family bible, to be handed down through a family with each successive generation. Family bibles were used as a marker of each married couple’s journey through life and the family’s history was commonly recorded in the bible. This bible features its original pages for presentation, births, deaths, and marriages, as well as a page for swearing temperance. The family pages of this bible are blank, and could still be filled in and used as originally intended by whoever purchases this bible. Family bibles, often very large and elaborately decorated, first came into popularity during the Victorian era in the United Kingdom. Afterwards, the family bible was seen throughout Europe and eventually made its way into American households. This bible’s period binding is exquisite, with full brown leather boards stamped with intricate gilt floral and leaf details. The front board features a deeply carved title border with gilt lettering and intricate gilt tooling and blind embossing. The spine has gilt stamped titles and raised bands. The advent of the printing press encouraged the craft of books that the small, literate class valued as works of art. Intricately bound books fell out of style in the late 18th century, but in the late 19th century, a resurgence of sumptuously bound special editions of bibles, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and poetry countered the popularity of cheaper, popular dime novels. Several publishers sought to elevate the book back to a piece of artistry that would be cherished for generations to come, and used expensive leathers, handmade marbled boards, gilt details, metal clasps, and gauffered edges to do so. This is one such example of the book artistry created during that time. CONDITION: Very good condition. Quarto. Original full brown leather, with front and back boards carved with gilt tooling and accents. The spine has raised bands, gilt titles, and tooling. Gilded edges. Illustrated throughout, with black and white steel engravings and full color illustrations. Blank family pages, to include a presentation page, births, deaths, marriages, and temperance. Three maps, “A New Map of Palestine or the Holy Land,” “Ancient Jerusalem...

A Tibetan amulet featuring Buddha Shakyamuni encased in a hand stitched leather shrine. Seated dhyana asana on a lotus throne, with downcast eyes flanked by long earlobes under neatl...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

Well preserved antique Bible with numerous copper engravings. Heavy embossed leather binding. Dedication on the first page. Made around 1870. New and Old Testament.

Book of Hours of Felipe el Hermoso. Facsimile with study and case. Spain, 2002. Facsimile Edition of the Royal College of Corpus Christi. 2002. Edited by Millenium World Codex, SL ...

Brown’s Self-Interpreting Family Bible with Copious Critical and Explanatory Notes and Practical Reflections, by the Rev. John Brown of Haddington, and Ma...

This beautiful antique family bible was printed in England circa 1870, with an abridgement of the commentaries of Scott and Henry, and containing also many thousand critical and explanatory notes selected from the Standard Authors of Europe and America. The commentaries condensed and the whole edited by the late Reverend John Eadie, professor of biblical literature to the United Presbyterian Church. The book flaunts an engraved brown leather and gilt covering, and is embellished with two brass locks and embossed brass edges. The bible features the old and new testament, and is fully illustrated with plates from original paintings by eminent artists; it also has colored maps, family register, roll of honor and the Lords Prayer...

This beautiful antique Holy Bible was printed in Bradford, United Kingdom. Entitled "Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible," it contains the Old an...

This beautiful antique Holy Bible was printed in Boston by W. L. Richardson and Co, circa 1884. With over 2500 Scripture illustrations on steel, woo...

Antique 18th Century German language Lutheran hymnal, originally printed in 1798, featuyring a black leather cover stamped in gold on the front and back cover respectively with the i...

The National Comprehensive Family Bible. The Holy Bible with an Abridgement of the Commentaries of Scott and Henry, and Containing also Many Thousand Critical and Explanatory Notes Selected from The Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries Condensed, and the Whole Edited by the Late Rev. John Eadie, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church. With Numerous Coloured and Engraved Plates from Original Paintings by F. Goodall, R.A., Miss Gow, and P.R. Morris, A.R.A, also a Series of Beautiful Steel Plates After Eminent Masters, Coloured Maps, Family Register...