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Lot 63
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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500
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$175
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Lot Description
[BIBLE, in English]. The Columbian Family and Pulpit Bible; Being a Corrected and Improved American Edition of the Popular English Family Bible; With Concise Notes and Annotation. Boston: Joseph Teal, 1822.
Folio (450 x 268 mm). Engraved title-page, illustrated. (Some spotting throughout.) Contemporary calf gilt (worn, joints starting).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published by Teal, who arrived in America in about 1820 as a book agent for an English house. He went into business on his own, and published the present Bible on subscription.