"The English Hexapla exhibiting the six important translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wiclif (MCCCLXXX), Tyndale (MDXXXIV), Cranmer (MDXXXIX), Genevan (MDLVII), Anglo-Rhemish (MDLXXXII), Authorised (MDCXI). The original Greek text after Scholz, with the various readings of the Textus Receptus and the Principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine Manuscripts, and a complete collation of Scholz's text with Griesbach's edition of MDCCCV. Preceded by a History of English translations and translators."
The English translations are: the 'Wiclif' - 1380 ; the Tyndale - 1534, a version of the first English-printed New Testament of 1525); Cranmer - 1539, the first authorized English Bible); the 'Genevan' - 1557 (Whittingham's Testament of 1557, the first Bible with numbered verses); the 'Rheims - 1582, Anglo-Rhemish' (taken from the first edition of 1582, the first Roman Catholic version); and the 'Authorised' - 1611 (the King James Version of 1611, first edition). The Greek text is printed at the top of each page, with the English versions beneath in six columns, spread over two pages. All this is preceded by a 56 page essay on the history of English translations and translators, written for the non-specialist.
It was published in London by Samuel Bagster and Sons, Paternoster Row, ca 1860 (the actual Greek dates may be at the bottom of the title page). $600
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Reconstruction In Mississippi Garner First Edition 1901 Very Good condition. $80
1834 edition in three-quarter leather of Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." $200
Volumes I and II of the Borodino edition (last two volumes of the six volume set) of
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Burke County, North Carolina, Land Records... 1751-1809 Vol III. $245
Colonial Records of South Carolina: Journal of the Commons House of Assembly. $35
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly : November 21, 1752-September 6, 1754 (1983, Hardcover). $59
FLORA OF TENNESSEE AND A PHILOSOPHY OF BOTANY GATTINGER 1901. First endpaper is inscribed "Hon. L. D. Tyson Speaker of the House with the compliments of the author." Assumed first edition. $69
"MARLBOROUGH COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, MINUTES OF THE COUNTY COURT, 1785-1799 AND MINUTES OF THE COURT OF ORDINARY 1791-1821," BY BRENT H. HOLCOMB, C. A. L. S." $25
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Rare second edition of William Wyche's "A Treatise on the Practice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Civil Actions." Published in New York in 1794 by T. and J. Swords, No. 167, William-Street. Signed twice by Confederate President Jefferson Davis' brother, Joseph E. Davis. Stated second edition. $295
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