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Lot 569

1625 Leatherbound King James Bible

Estimate: $600 - $900

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$3,000 $250
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New..., London: Bonham Norton and John Bid, Printers to the King's most excellent Majestie, 1625, bound in full leather with blindstamped gilt borders, black morocco spine label, four raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled boards and endpapers, including apocrypha, Psalms, genealogies, etc.

Provenance: Private Collection, Huntsville, Alabama

Condition

wear to extremities, bumped corners, scuffs, wear, and small losses to leather, scattered toning and dampstaining throughout, some water staining to page edges, numerous inscriptions/notes with associated ink stains throughout, Book of Common Prayer likely lacking title page (begins with morning prayer), Old Testament title page with repair (visible page verso), Whole Booke of Psalmes pg. 84 with 3 inch tear to inner lower edge (does not run through text), last five pages with reinforced edges and/or corners