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The Holy Bible.

By: N/A

Price: $700.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855.:

Seller ID: 2357

Duodecimo. 856, 259, 77pp. Contemporary blindstamped brown calf, elaborately tooled on both covers. All edges gilt. With a clasp. With a frontispiece. Hill 1589 (?). Not in Darlow & Moule, Herbert, nor Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855.
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York: American Bible Society, 1853.:

Seller ID: 2358

Octavo. 984pp. Bound in black embossed morocco in blind by A.C. Morin, with his name stamped in blind on both covers. Flat spine, decorated in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855, 153; Darlow & Moule I, 1188 (pagination differs).
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The English Version of the Polyglott Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Springfield: Published by Chapin Bridgman & Co., 1848.:

Seller ID: 2359

Duodecimo. Two parts in one volume. Engraved title-pages added. Bound in light brown calf, with fold-over tassel. Title stamped on spine. Pocketbook or wallet binding. Illustrated with frontispieces. On pocketbook bindings, see Maser. He says that "pocketbook bindings were occasionally used for small dictionaries but most frequently for church books of various sorts."
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York: Published by White, Gallaher, & White, 1828.:

Seller ID: 2360

Duodecimo. 222, 92, 48pp. Second Stereotype edition. With separate title-pages to the "Psalms," and "Hymns." Bound in straight grain blue morocco with a double rule fillet border within which a wide floral border in gilt. In the middle, vertically, owner's name, Edward A. McClean, in blind. Pattern repeated on lower cover, without owne's name. All edges gilt. Flat spine, with floral design in gilt. With a frontispiece.
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York: Printed at the Protestant Episcopal Press, 1830.:

Seller ID: 2361

Small octavo. 394, 56pp. Straight-grained crimson morocco, with double fillet border in gilt. A leafy border within. Pattern repeated on lower cover. All edges gilt. Name "Eliza Granger" on upper cover. Flat spine, three raised bands. Floral design in gilt. Illustrated. Somewhat similar to plate 20, in "Bookbinding in America."
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Companion Poets: Whittier's National Lyrics, Bryant's Voices of Nature, Holmes's Humorous Poems.

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.:

Seller ID: 2366

Octavo. Brown morocco; boards and spines stamped in dark brown; gilt-lettered spines; gilt-tooled board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Bound by William Matthews, and signed by him. Illustrated.
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The Christian Liturgy, and Book of Common Prayer; containing the Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Apostolic Catholic, or Universal Church of Christ.

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847.:

Seller ID: 2367

Small octavo. ix, [ii], 526pp. Black morocco with double fillet borders in blind, surrounding a stylized altar with a cross on both covers. Spine also decorated in blind, with title, "Common Prayer," and "Church of America" stamped in gilt. Bound by Benjamin Bradley, with his ticket on the front pastedown. Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855.
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Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch.

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Price: $90.00

Publisher: Milwaukee: Verlag von Georg Brumder, 1872.:

Seller ID: 2373

Octavo. XXIV, 512, [ii]pp. Crushed brown morocco stamped in gilt on both covers. Arabesque design frame surrounds a cross over the Holy Book surrounded with leaves in gilt on both covers. Owner's name, Friedrich Richter, on the upper cover, and the date, 1890, on the lower cover under the central design. All edges gilt. Flat spine with five compartments, all gilt.
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Evangelisches Gesangbuch, oder eine Sammlung Geistreicher Lieder zum Gebrauch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft und aller heilsuchenden Seelen.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Cleveland: Verlegt von Carl Hammer, 1855.:

Seller ID: 2374

Small octavo. Contemporary black morocco with double fillet borders. Within the frame, delicately tooled in floral and arabesques in gilt. All edges gilt. Flat spine. Spine also gilt in compartments.
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Evangelisches Gesangbuch.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: St. Charles, Missouri: P. R. Wobus, 1888.:

Seller ID: 2375

Small octavo. 461, 98pp. Contemporary russet-colored roan, decorated in gilt on both covers. All edges gilt.
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The Evergreen. A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Gift.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d.:

Seller ID: 2376

Octavo. 252pp. Bound in black morocco with floral designs in blind and a gilt panel stamped in floral design with a rose and gilt centerpiece. Title, "The Evergreen" written in middle. Pattern repeated on lower cover. All edges gilt. Flat spine, with gilt and blind decorations. Illustrated.
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The Floral Album. Liber Amicorum for Mary Victoria.

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York: J. C. Riker, n.d. (not after 1857).:

Seller ID: 2378

Octavo. Bound in red morocco. Double gilt fillet borders. Within, floral and strapwork design in gilt. In center, an oval with rays emanating from the center in blind. On lower cover, gilt floral central design. All other designs, similar to those in upper cover, in blind. Flat spine decorated in gilt. Title-page engraved in colors.
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Friendship's Offering: a Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, for MDCCCL.

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston: Published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1850.:

Seller ID: 2379

Octavo. Black morocco, fillet border in blind. Elaborate floral pattern embossed on both covers in blind. All edges gilt. The binding is signed A.C. Morin and Phila. on the both covers. Illustrated. Thompson, American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, p. 122; Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855, 151.
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Friendship's Offering: a Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present, for MDCCCLIII.

By: N/A

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Published by E. H. Butler & Co., 1852.:

Seller ID: 2380

Octavo. Blue morocco with gilt strapwork all over the covers and spine.
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Kirchen=Gesangbuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinden ungeänderter Augsburgischer Confession.

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1902.:

Seller ID: 2389

Sextodecimo. 468pp. Black roan, heavily gilt and dated 1903. Rubbed. Illustrated with a frontispiece. With the bookplate of a Detroit bookseller, Geo. Huser, on the front pastedown.
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The Knickerbocker Gallery: a testimonial to the editor of the Knickerbocker magazine [i.e. Lewis Gaylord Clark] from its contributors. With forty-eight portraits on steel ... engraved expressly for this work.

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York: S. Hueston, 1855.:

Seller ID: 2390

Large octavo. 1ff., [ix]-xiv, 15-505pp. Added title-page engraved with vignette. Lacks last few leaves. Bound in red morocco. Illustrated with 49 portraits, including the frontispiece.
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The Ladies Wreath, a Souvenir for all Seasons.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d. [c. 1855].:

Seller ID: 2391

Octavo. 288pp. With an extra lithographed title-page and presentation pages. Bound in red morocco with gilt pictorial design on both covers. All edges gilt. Flat spine, gilt. Repaired. With four full-page engraved plates. Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855; Faxon 457a.
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Studies in Religion. By the Author of "Words in a Sunday School."

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York: C. Shephard, 1845.:

Seller ID: 2404

Small octavo. 230pp. Bound in polished light tan calf, with two sets of double fillet borders. In the corners, a design in a rectangle formed by the two sets of borders. In the larger rectangles, "Studies in Religion" on top, and the initials "E. C." in the bottom. Pattern repeated on lower cover, but without the title or the initials. Spine decorated in blind
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The Violet, A Christmas and New Year's Gift.

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d.:

Seller ID: 2407

Octavo. 250pp. Contemporary red roan or morocco with blind fillet borders. Within, a stylized floral border, also in blind. In a central cartouche, an arabesque design in gilt and blue. Repeated on the lower cover. Spine also follows same pattern. All edges gilt. With six engravings after designs by Gilbert, hand-colored.
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The Shoes of Fortune, and other Stories.

By: Andersen, Hans Christian.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York: Published by James Miller, n.d. [before December 9, 1865]:

Seller ID: 1307

Octavo. 187pp. Probably second edition. First published by John Wiley in New York in 1848. Publisher's original drab blue cloth, stamped in blind on both covers. Spine gilt. With a frontispiece and two other engravings as well as woodcuts in the text. According to the American Antiquarian Society, between 1861 and 1868. I would like to acknowledge one of our internet colleagues, Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., from Inverness in the United Kingdom, for his/her on-line entry, where it is mentioned that the specific copy has a 'signature & [a date] 9th Dec 1865 to ffep.' in guiding me to date my copy.
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