Hewlett Rev John (5 results)

Condition: Fair. 1825. No Edition Remarks. 494 pages. No dust jacket. Grey paper covered boards with lettering. Volume IV. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper is missing. Rough cut pages uncut. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed.

Ledereinband. Condition: Gut. 8°, 502 Seiten, Original-Ganzleder-Einband, Rücken beidseitig geplatzt, vorderer Buchdeckel fast lose sonst guter Zustand - 1788. c11790 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

Leather Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. boards have some rubbing and bumping to edges, chipping, spines cracked with reading, shelf wear, ex-libris book plates to p/ds, light foxing throughout both, both Volumes remain tight in bind, pp clean Size: 8vo.

First edition. [4], 178pp, [6]. With an engraved plate depicting the Parian Chronicle. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, substantial surface loss to spine, lettering-piece working loose, light damp-staining to boards. Upper hinge cracked, ink inscription to FEP reading 'Ex Libris Jacob Hebard', ink inscription of '(?) Parker Nov 3. 1858' to head of title, offsetting from plate. A reply by biblical scholar John Hewlett (1762-1844) to the assertions of Reverend Joseph Robertson (1726-1802) made in The Parian Chronicle (London, 1788), which sought to prove that the Greek antiquity under discussion, a marble stele in the collection of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was in actuality a forgery. Hewlett, through discussion of similar fraudulent pieces, seeks to exculpate the artefact - the surviving fragments of which now reside in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ESTC T107432. Size: 8vo in 4s.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Three thick quarto volumes, uniformly bound in original black full leather, raised gilt spines, gilt borders, moderate shelf wear, marbled end-papers. The hinges are all solid, and contents are clean and near fine. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Volume one begins with a Prolegomena on the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Old Testament, The Translators to the Readers, Addenda et Corrigenda, The Various Editions of the Bible and Parts Thereof, in English, since the year 1526, History of the Present Authorised Translation of the Bible, Essays on the Jewish Coins, Weights, and Measures, and The Calendar of the Jews, and the Old Testament from Genesis to Esther. Volume Two continues the Old Testament from Job to Zechariah, plus the Apocryphal books. Volume Three contains a 143 page Concise History of the Jews, from the Time of Their Re-establishment by Ezra and Nehemiah, after the Babylonish Captivity, to the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans: forming a Connection Between the History of the Old and New Testament; a fold-out Map of Canaan, Palestine, Judea, or The Holy Land; The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated out of the Original Greek, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command; and Indexes. A near fine copy by antiquarian standards of this very scarce Bible.