The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14


tional tricks on the part of the irrevercnt
compositor The substitution of "rght-
eousness" for unrighteousness " in
Romans, Vi, -, gives ludicrous turn
to the verse. In |. Corinthians, vi, 9,
the omission of the word mot promises
the inheritance of heaven to the I'M
righteous.
There is on view at Messrs. Leavitt's.
the book auctiOneers, "Bible of
the Sword" printed in 1885 at Neu-
chatel, Switzerland, by Peter de
Wingle. This book, issued at the
instance of the Waldenses, was
published under the personal super
vision of Calvin and Olivetan, his coad-
jutor. 1t takes its name from the emblem
of the printer on the title-page. Mr..
Peter Cooper and Prof. j. A. Weisse
are said to possess copies, which are rare
and valuable. The Messrs. Leavitt also
show copy of one of the first printed
editions of the Scriptures, which was
published in Latin at Nuremberg by
Anthony Coberger in 1875. The cap
itals are Illuminated by hand. The
volume is bound in vellum on oak
panels, the covering stamped with relig-
ious designs. 1t was bought at Frank
fort last summer. There are copies in
America of Beza's Geneva Bible Q660),
the first printed in Roman characters
instead of in black letter. 1t is curious
to note that the first book ever stereO-
typed was the New Testament in Syriac,
and that the first book published by
subscription was Polvglot Bible in six
volumes, edited by j. Walton. and dated
London, 1867.
Original copies of the King James
version are occasionally sold in America.
Mr.. John Carter Brown, of Providence,
r. L., purchased for E40 at Sir William
Tite's sale in London in 1874 an imper-
feet volume of TyndalrS translation of
the Pentateuch. At the same sale Gov
erdale's " English Translation of the
Holy Scriptures" in black letter, sold
for ESQ, and q Brooches Bible brought
E27. Mr. Brown was formerly propri-
etor of the four great national Polyglot
Bibles-the Comprehension Q514-1O,
the Paris PolygIot (ten folio volumes,
large paper edition), the Antwerp Poly
glot (siX volumes), and Walton's Poly
glot, with 8" Castells Lexicon eight
volumes folio). An interesting work to
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rGl l w., .'Iio Wv q, ~, VI
+ I,as hoo.,,,, G,' Co+4n,, ,1
tWTi2;t,L,-,,aI';I' 20 I e;,i i'nl1
in London in 1889. The titles were de-
signed by Hans Holbein. Imperfect
copies only of the black-etter edition of
Tyndall and Coverdale's Dutch and
+,-;tL I,,, w. iI, CJd
pahnn, a 'r, ", hrio,.;oo
,nndoratoi,, rraod s,,no;,,,nr !, ,-aI,,"a ~
f 80 o06 0oiiii''' 10 '''''0'' '''
Enh,,ior, ~ $685. nro -, oooos;o,, ,oid
for Soaroo 49, Tbo hioboS3 '' e,,r,,f P' ~
aor,1od NJ ho1.;,'o. hoaI, o,;,.62, f2r P;h1,
Nvas thot mid for ..5Ia1arir" "o r,D. ~
thn PnrI. ip1 soio ~ - - u ''
90 400 Tu,a love-. ,,-ora y, faa a;y',;1,
NJ PorL,ns had horrbt Il in 1e35 for
r5ct Thn bir.bort F. o,,nr. ,.oai;.-olI
in Amorica n,a2 for f,yo-ToI,,n,o $500 no,,,,
Of tho same edition wbicb Wo sop9
Leavitt sold recently for S, 900. Mr.
Hamilton Cole. an amateur collector
was the purchaser. For the Sykes copy
of the same book 92,69 was paid in
1873. A specimen is at the Lenox Lii
brary. The Mazarin Bible in the Bib
liotheque Rationale of Paris is the most
valuable copy of the Scriptures in the
world. This version is called also the
Gutenberg" having been the first
printed with movable types. 1t is printed
in double columns in two volumes. De
Brue, the great French photographer,
discovered it in the library of Cardinal
Mazarin, whose name the edition has
since bore, There are only eleven
copies known to exist, and none of these
is perfect. AT the Menzies sale in New
York, $3.50 was paid for two leaves of
Faust a. Shaeffer's 1472 version.
An industry which is prosecuted with
success and has received great impetus
of late wears is the purchase of biblical
and other works for the sake of their
plates, the books being torn up and their
cuts used for illustrating valuable copies
of the Bible. The idea may be said to
have been first carried into effect in the
publication of Changers "History of
England in 1924, of which work
twenty sets were struck off on Atlas
paper, space being left for the insertion
of illustrations. Old Bibles, which are
not rare, derive their value from the use
to which their plates may be put Mr..
Wright, from the firm of John Wiley's
Sons, has constructed some valuable
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