•  ESTC R172299; Wing (rev.) A3084B. Small portion of upper inner margin torn away. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.

•  ESTC W35823; Evans 35119. Contemporary sheep, spine with red leather title label; abraded with a few wormholes (including one track across spine) and front joint opening. Some pages quite stained, not impairing reading; a couple instances of chipping in margins with loss of letters. Front free endpaper excised. Pp. 433–44 pinned together in the inside margin. Pencil doodlings on half-title and p. [5].

•  Very good; front cover bright and unmarked, spine notably faded, corners and spine extremities gently worn. All edges gilt. Pages very clean. (1908)

Bell, brother of neurologist Sir Charles Bell, was a Scottish anatomist and surgeon in addition to being a skilled artist who often illustrated his own work. This treatise featurestwo copper-engraved plates done by Amos Doolittle after drawings by Bell, and two small, unattributed woodcuts.

Provenance:  Large early signature of Wm. Daugherty to fly-leaf.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 12101; Austin 192.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges tooled in blind; joints and edges lightly rubbed, spine label crackled. Front fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscription. Light foxing and offsetting. A good, sound, pleasant copy.  (22549)

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•  NSTC B1664; Goldsmiths'-Kress 19755. Recent dark blue morocco framed in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped floral decorative motifs. Title-page with a few small spots, others clean. Tables tipped in at the back of the volume. Neat and nice.

William Bedell (1571–1642) translated the Old Testament into the Irish language with the assistance of Murtagh King and Dennis Sheridan; it was revised by Andrew Sall (1612–82), Narcissus Marsh (1638–1713), and others. The New Testament is the translation that was first printed in 1602 and is the work of Nicholas Walsh (d. 1585), John O’Kearney (or Kearney, or Carney; d. 1600?), and William Daniell (or O’Donnell; d. 1628).

Robert Kirk (d. 1692) “minister of Aberfoyle, and author of the metrical Psalter in Gaelic published in 1684 . . . was responsible for the transliteration from the Irish character” (Darlow and Moule)—with what surely were disheartening results, as the “targeted” Highlanders were ignorant of the roman characters, and it was reported that the volume did not succeed.

A check of Millicent Sowerby’s catalogue of Thomas Jefferson’s library shows (#4877) that that president and polymath owned a copy of this edition of the Irish-language Bible.

•  Darlow & Moule 5535; Wing B2759B ; ESTC R211484. Recent full black morocco by Grace Bindings (signed in blind on the lower turn-in of the back cover), in the 17th-century Cambridge style with a nicely gilt spine, including gilt center devices. Ex–Mercantile Library of Philadelphia with stamps, mostly faint, including on the title-page. Title-page torn along top margin costing paper and part of the rule border and touching, with small loss, three letters of title; some words on the verso of the title-page affected or lost. Title-leaf repaired. First leaf of text remargined along top and fore-edge. Paper a bit brittle, but the book in at least good or good+ in overall condition.

Rare edition.  ESTC locates only the copy at the National Library of Scotland.

•  ESTC T200528; not in Darlow & Moule. Period-style modern calf, framed and panelled in blind, with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped decorations within compartments. Title-page with lower corner repaired, with loss of letters from imprint. Pages browned and with occasional staining; some corners dog-eared. Lower corner of one leaf (Psalm 118) torn away, with loss of a few letters.

Binding:  Contemporary black morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesque rectangular medallions, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, very minor wear to edges and extremities. Front hinge starting; front pastedown with label as above and with small scrape; back pastedown with pencilled notations. Reverse of front free endpaper with child's inscription scrawled in pencil.  (22734)

•  Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded along edges and spine. Front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Pages faintly age-toned; in fact, a very clean nice copy.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, else crisp and clean. (16779)

•  ESTC N5425; Garrison-Morton 2199 (for first ed.). Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; leather cracked and chipped on spine and joints, with minor rubbing to sides and edges. Front free endpaper with private collector’s rubber-stamp and inked name, front pastedown with small inked numeral. One front and one back fly-leaf excised. One leaf with short tear from outer margin just touching one letter; one leaf with paper flaw affecting a few letters without loss of legibility. Pages clean save for some age-toning and scattered iinstances of light staining to outer margins.

•  Not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume. (16766)

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Binding: Modern dark green morocco by Riviere & Son as classic from this binder; covers framed in triple gilt fillets, raised bands on spine, spine gilt extra, gilt-ruled board edges, gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt.

•  Pottle 57; Rothschild 456; Tinker 333. Binding as above, spine evenly sunned to brown, otherwise showing only very minor traces of wear to extremities. Scattered spots of light foxing, with pages predominantly clean. A handsome copy, with untrimmed pages, complete with the half-title and the errata leaf.

•  NSTC 2B57765. Removed from a nonce volume. The front edges of the title and verso are darkened, else very good. (16759)

a woodcut vignette of a man playing a barrel organ with a monkey on a leash at his feet

•  NSTC 2T11878. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page separated; title-page and some others with short edge nicks, otherwise clean and fresh. (16777)

•  “Not in” as above. Creasing, dust-soiling; upper outer corner repaired, with loss of a few letters. Now in a Mylar folder.

The frontispiece portrait, engraved by R. White, depicts Queen Anne.

•  ESTC T54583. Contemporary calf, blind-panelled and spine with printed paper title and shelving labels; worn and abraded, with loss of leather to head of spine. Title-page with line reading "Present State" excised, repaired some time ago by backing upper part of page with similarly colored paper; title-page and one other with inked ownership inscriptions. Endpapers and pastedowns doodled on in an early hand, with lower inner portion of front free endpaper torn away; frontispiece with a few small ink marks. Pages age-toned.